Here's five first round picks: I'd give those up for Bridges in a second. And the picks the Knicks gave up are almost certainly not lottery picks, or heavily protected.
Paul George and Klay need to be settled before anyone's interested in Grant. I predict George to Philly, Klay to Dallas and then Orlando will cast around for something to do with its cap space. (Mind you, we want them to take Anfernee.) Teams want to make a splash, and Grant is a solid player but nobody's idea of a "splash". Something like this seems possible, although I imagine they'd prefer not to give up Black, who's the only reason I'd want to do this. Obviously we'd want to flip Anthony (so he doesn't spoil our memory of his father).
3pm Pacific time is when a flood of announcements will likely commence, of course nothing can be "official" for a week or so
for RoCo 16th pick in 2020: 16 Isaiah Stewart 18 Josh Green 19 Saddiq Bey 20 Precious Achiuwa 21 Tyrese Maxey 25 Immanuel Quickley 28 Jaden McDaniels 30 Desmond Bane and 23rd pick in 2021: 23 Usman Garuba 25 Quentin Grimes 27 Cam Thomas 30 Santi Aldama 35 Herbert Jones 38 Ayo Dosunmu Blazers potentially missed out on some decent players, mostly smallish guards, but not anybody besides Maxey and Bane really noteworthy. Jaden McDaniels or Herbert Jones would be nice to have though
He was nearly FMVP two years ago. Started an ASG and Kuminga was practically their 3rd best player last year. It ain’t happening.
NY picks and swaps sent out are all unprotected. Very possible if not likely the ones at the end are all lottery picks. Knicks will have tons of pressure to contend next 3 years and will not be building young talent, 3-4 years later that gets exposed.
3 and D rules the NBA. If the Blazers get anything from Golden State it should be (or include) Brandin Podziemski. Good defender, good 3-point shooter.
it's quite possible but the Knicks are a fairly young team in their rotation: Miles McBride 23 RJ Barrett 23 Immanuel Quickley 24 Precious Achiuwa 24 Mitchell Robinson 25 OG Anunoby 26 Donte DiVincenzo 27 Jalen Brunson 27 Mikal Bridges 27 Josh Hart 28 Julius Randle 29 they could be really good for several seasons
that gets really difficult. First they'd have to renounce the rights to Fultz then, after signing PG13, they'd need matching salary for Simons I suppose it could be the Simons trade first: that would give Orlando over 40M in space to sign PG13
I just don't see PG going to ORL. They are not contenders if he signs there. BOS and NYN would sweep that team in a 4g series. Who knows if he would even be healthy for a playoff run. He wants a ring so he needs to go to a real contender.
I heard that OKC might be a potential landing spot for Hartenstein. That might take them out of the equation.
Why would OKC give up two 1sts for WCJ? To me, if Orlando has a chance to add Ant AND PG, they should be the one giving up two picks. But this is actually great.
