Dadouv47 wrote:Patches Perry wrote:Well Utah has suddenly won 10 of their last 12 and their pick would currently convey. If season ended today, we'd have:
13th- Utah pick
14th- Houston pick
25th- LAC pick
OKC's own pick would go to Indiana. I can't decide if I want Utah's pick to convey this year or roll the dice on the pick in 2025 or 2026. The risk there is that if they stay bottom 8-10 for three years, you end up with nothing. In a perfect scenario unlikely as it may be, that pick would convey in 2026 as a lottery pick (9 or higher), so OKC can push that salary obligation down the road.
I want the Utah pick to convey. You never know what they are going to do next season and I don't want to take the risk that it won't ever convey. Sure it's a bad draft so pick 13rd would likely be something like pick 18 or 19 in a normal draft which is still fine.
If we end up with picks 13, 14 and 25, I would draft at 13, trade 14th for two future protected FRPs and then I have no clue what kind of value we could get for the 25th pick (maybe a meh role player in return but not likely we find a decent player for such a low pick)
Draft late teens
Trade the other for future firsts/seconds.
Trade down the 20+ for a future first and a second in this draft.
Draft with that second.