Lottery pick: #6, 2nd Rnd Picks: #36, and #57

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  1. BankTeller

    BankTeller Well-Known Member

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    DO NOT trade either lotto picks! I’m tired of trading away a 1st for bench guys and 2 1sts for good starters. If you are guaranteed two lotto picks this year, you just take the best two guys at where we’re picking. Trade the MEM 2nd to unprotect our 2023 pick if we need to trade future 1sts, but with Dame committed, we aren’t just guaranteed to have a lotto pick any year. Young talent, cheap contracts. If you really wanted to help Dame and take advantage of the situation given, capitalizing on the value is going to be in drafting someone, not trading it for a Jeremi Grant kind of guy.

    The NBA is won with wings now—just take the best wing talents available and work from there. I like Sharpe at #6 and either Sochan or Eason at #11.

    ____/Little/Sharpe
    ____/(Sochan or Eason)/Watford/Brown III

    That is a great young core at forward. And it probably is likely the any of those guys could suddenly be good enough to start as soon as next year. So really, you still have the TPE, Bledsoe’s contract, and our 2025/2027 1sts available to bring in a star SF or PF if one became available. And unless GSW starts trading away their young guys, OPJ might be a gettable guy to start at either forward position for a year—and we can let the other forward come from within our young core.
     
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    Nope, it's currently eleventh so if the Spurs make the playoffs the Pelicans will have the tenth worst record of the lotto teams and if they don't move up or get bumped back in the lottery, their pick (which will convey to us) will be tenth.
     
  3. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Yup, i had edited my original response. Lo siento.
     
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    blazerkor Well-Known Member

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    It's not the likeliest of scenarios but one I can definitely root for. At this time of year between the play ins and lotto, sussing out all of the possibilities is a bit cumbersome. We'll solidly know more Friday night. Then we just have to wait until May 17th after that no more guessing, hoping and projecting all of the different permutations of what picks we will or won't have.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Man, it’s been a looong time since we’ve looked forward to the lottery to see where we wind up.
     
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    Damn, you might have chosen the two biggest upside guys in the draft in Sharpe and Sochan but also the two guys taken in the lotto who might be the most unlikely to start for a playoff team next season. If we're building a contender around Dame as soon as possible and you can turn Sochan or Eason into Grant... I think you do it. People are sleeping on Grant because he proved he's not a first option but he's never been a second option and has proven that he can be a great third option. Grant is better than Larry or RoCo on both ends of the court. Just look at the dude's numbers, especially when he was playing a role closer to what he'd be playing here.

    I am with you on shopping our future firsts and if something materializes trading a future second or the Memphis second and/or sending cash to the Bulls to guarantee that pick. I think that's a must. Hell you could make a deal that wouldn't complete until the new league year begins and include our 2029 first as well... but isn't this idea (that I think is spectacular) completely contradictory to the logic you're using in the rest of your post?
     
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  7. TBpup

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    Please... please... please....

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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Haha I did the same thing on tankathon and almost posted it.

    Would be nice! Certainly possible…

    Weren’t we in the 7-9 spot when we won the lottery and took oden?
     
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    It's not JUST us getting the #1 pick. It's who would be #2 and #3. It would give us options....
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Been told 0% chance we keep the picks
     
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    Exactly. And not just the top 4. The draft is always a crap shoot, which is why the Blazers’ tank job was foolhardy.
     
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    I wasn’t, but a guy in this thread was. Not going to out him, but I recently texted him this video! Good thoughts.
     
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    oldmangrouch persona non grata

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    Fuck the Seattle mafia.
    Fuck Cronin.
    Fuck Billups if he is OK with this.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    So was mediocrity.

    Enjoy actually having hope now. It's okay. It was the right thing to do.
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    So Fuck Dame?
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Man…. 10 years exactly since we drafted Dame. It would be so weird if we ended up with exactly the same picks. Is this destiny?
     
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    If he wants to be the shadow GM ala LeBron and trade multiple 1st round picks for Westbrick.
     
  19. KSF-ERIC

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    Did we have Klay Thompson waiting in the wings the last 8 seasons? No we haven't. So it doesn't compare.
     
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    The Lakers don't own their pick. It would go to New Orleans. No silver lining.
     
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