Five NBA Draft Lottery Trade Ideas Just Crazy Enough to Consider
The draft lottery is coming up and that means its time for completely unhinged trade speculation. Here are five deals that sound crazy until you think about them for more than two minutes.
Look every front office is working the phones right now. Some of these deals have probably already been floated. Others are pure fantasy. But thats what makes the pre-draft period fun.
ESPN has been tracking the various rumors and scenarios that could shake up the draft order.
The common thread in all of these is that rebuilding teams with high picks want established talent while contenders want to move up for a potential star. Finding the right match is the hard part.
NBA decisions often come down to timing and desperation. Who needs to win now and who can afford to wait?
Trade idea number one involves a team moving back significantly in exchange for a current rotation player plus future picks. Its boring but it works and it happens almost every year.
The spicier scenarios involve star players being packaged with picks or teams swapping lottery selections straight up based on different evaluations of the prospects.
Whether any of these actually happen depends on how draft night shakes out. Sometimes the threat of a deal is more valuable than the deal itself.
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