Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

when does the actual draft start. I know that Bilas and Smith will start yakking at 5pm, but when does the 5 minute clock for Dallas start?

 

First pick usually between 10-15 minutes after the Draft programming starts.

 

We need Fears to be a top 10 pick.

 

So much this.

 

thanks...I really want to minimize my exposure to espn talking heads

 

Need him

 

All of those are good things, but he would have trouble beating @THE HCP off the dribble. Tough to create opportunities for others when you haven't moved the defense.

 

Yeah I've seen some posters working that pick being reclaimed into a deal that has us send #3 overall to a 3rd team. Just so beyond not worth it to try and get it back at that high of a cost.

Odds are highly likely that the 2028 Bucks swap will be unimpacted. If it gets more likely we deal with Chicago then. They will be an eager trade partner as in that scenario they risk the pick converting to a 2nd rounder.

Its certainly an annoyance and would be better to be resolved. But there's dozens of actions that are more critical to the Blazers building an eventual contending roster.

Each year its less relevant too. Next summer we can trade our 2033 pick. So that would be 3 fully guaranteed picks we can trade out in each of 2029, 2031, 2033. So at this point the Chicago pick owed isn't really preventing us from trading away a future pick haul like it was the first few years we owed it. A team that controls all their picks can trade 4 picks, we will be able to trade 3. Just not a big difference.

It is comical that this pick debt owed from Olshey tenure has outlasted every single one of the Blazer players on the roster during his tenure.

 

Not sure who that means we are likely to take.

Betting odds always seem the most accurate predictor. But the odds that the top10 follow those exact odds is probably pretty low.

 

Could see Portland trading back if they cant trade up or trade pick. They could get Coward & another player. ?

 

If it went that way we would probably be making a choice between Jakucionis and Bryant. I like both.

 

I think 15 and 24 for 11 would make a lot of sense for us.

 

If we don't like who is there at 11 maybe trade down for multiple picks. Try to send one to Chicago to pay off that debt then get a player later or even just pickup a pick for a future season. Hopefully we get to where all our youth is deserving phat extensions in a few years and we have an even bigger need for late picks on inexpensive contracts at that time.

If we see someone we really like at 11 just take him though - still a legit lottery pick.

 

League sources say Cedric Coward is generating interest as high as No. 11 in Portland and is said to have worked out multiple times for the Thunder. Maybe the Nets, if they’re really that keen on landing Coward, could move into the middle of the first round by trading some of their later picks.
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I think Coward is being slept on and unless it was in secret he never met with the blazers and that surprises me but I cannot help but think something crazy is going to happen with the Blazers if not tonight then some news within the next week to 10 days.

I like Coward more then Carter for the Blazers since good chance as roster is now he gets little to no minutes or at best Banton's minutes from last year.

 

He did

 

He's such a mystery. He's not the defensive player Carter is but he's no slouch either. He's better offensively. Can put it on the ground a bit more, but not much of a creator either. I like how he profiles, but the hype for Carter Bryant is real and he's being regarded as the 2nd best defensive player of this draft after CMB.

 

I looked at Edge's article on who has worked out for the Blazers and did not see his name but it was right before I went to bed so maybe I was tired and skipped over his name.

One other thing I like about him over Carter is I think Cedric has some dog in him and would push Sharpe and let's be honest no one has really pushed Sharpe and I think Sharpe feels like he should be starting no question and kind of slacks at times.

If it is Carter the same thing applies for Sharpe someone needs to push him -- period