After the teams call in their picks, factors outside their control -- and even perhaps outside the player's control, particularly health -- will determine the results. No team, not even the Brooklyn Nets with their five first-round picks, drafts enough players in one year for that to even out.

On draft night, the future of the NBA walks across the stage to shake commissioner Adam Silver's hand one by one, but the moment was likely forged in high school where most of the draftees starred. Here is where each 2025 NBA Draft lottery pick played in high school.