After splitting its draft into two days for the first time in 2024, the NBA confirmed today (via Twitter) that it will use the same format for its 2025 event.

According to the league, the dates for the 2025 NBA draft are as follows:

• Wednesday, June 25 (8:00 pm ET): Round one
• Thursday, June 26 (8:00 pm ET): Round two

As usual, the event will take place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

After long having held the draft on a single night, the NBA and NBPA decided last year to make it a two-day affair in order to give its teams, broadcast partners, and incoming players more time – and a bigger spotlight – in the second round.

During single-night drafts, that second round typically began late in the evening on the East Coast, then flew by because teams only had two minutes to make their picks — each year, a number of those picks were made while ESPN’s broadcast was on a commercial break. It was also often difficult to track which teams owned which picks, with teams trading second-rounders more frequently than first-rounders.

In the new format, teams have four minutes per pick in the second round, only slightly less than the five minutes per pick in round one.