NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers' ex will play a leading role at May 10's NBA Draft Lottery, with Mallory Edens representing her father's Milwaukee Bucks
09:17 ET, 10 May 2026
Aaron Rodgers' ex Mallory Edens will be back at NBA Draft Lottery representing the Milwaukee Bucks
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Aaron Rodgers' ex Mallory Edens will be back at NBA Draft Lottery representing the Milwaukee Bucks(Image: Getty)
Aaron Rodgers’ ex-girlfriend, Mallory Edens, will represent the Milwaukee Bucks at this month’s 2026 NBA Draft lottery.
Edens, 30, is the daughter of Bucks owner Wes Edens and dated NFL quarterback Rodgers briefly in 2023, after they were first romantically linked after being seen at a Milwaukee NBA game in December 2022. Rodgers has since played for the New York Jets and the Pittsburgh Steelers after leaving the Green Bay Packers in 2023.
And the four-time NFL MVP, 42, has since married a mystery woman named Brittani, who remains out of the public eye. Rodgers has had several high-profile relationships, leading him to tell his exes to “stop lying” after Danica Patrick made explosive claims last year.
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Three years on from their relationship, Edens will be back in the limelight this month, but in the NBA world. Edens will represent her father’s Bucks at the NBA Draft Lottery on May 10.
The Bucks currently hold just shy of a 14% chance of landing a Top-Four pick and 3% of getting their hands on the No. 1 pick.
However, the NBA Draft hasn’t exactly been a happy place for Edens. She went viral during the 2014 NBA Draft when she was just 18.
Edens said "going really viral" at a "really young age" put her in "this place where I felt so protective of myself, because the things people were saying online about me at that time felt so harmful.”
Randall Cobb, Mallory Edens, and Aaron Rodgers watch the second half of the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum on December 02, 2022, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Randall Cobb, Mallory Edens, and Aaron Rodgers watch the second half of the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum on December 02, 2022, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.(Image: Getty)
Edens could eventually step up and take over from her father in Milwaukee.
She has been learning how to run an NBA franchise from her father. Edens said she has "such a deep respect for what the front office does" and enjoys "getting to be a fly on the wall in their conversations."
“I love basketball. I’m open-minded about what my future holds," Edens said. Reports indicate that Rodgers still owns a minority stake in the Bucks. It is said that the quarterback owns around 1% of the NBA franchise, which he purchased in 2018 while playing for the Packers.
It deepened his connection with the State of Wisconsin, before eventually leaving the Packers for pasture’s new.
Mallory is the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner Wes Edens.
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Mallory is the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner Wes Edens.(Image: Getty)
"I have proudly called Wisconsin my home for the past 13 years, and I am thankful for the friendships and the opportunities I have been given to live and play here," Rodgers said in a statement released by the Bucks at the time.
"I am excited and honored to deepen my connection to the region by joining Wes Edens, Marc Lasry, Jamie Dinan, Mike Fascitelli, and the ownership group of the Milwaukee Bucks.
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“As a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball, this is a dream come true for me, and I look forward to furthering my affinity for Wisconsin sports as a minority owner in a team I love and support.”