NY Knicks Pick watch

Great trade to get a first round pick for Hart when he was leaving in the off season anyways.

 

Best case scenario the Knicks pick goes to Chicago to free up 1st rounders for this summer.
5 picks from GSt for trade sweeteners and takings stabs at athletic bigs. Nice. It works out.
Orlando helps out today with a win and the Blazers have a 1-game lead on 5th worst.

 

Pels trying to do us a favor right now. The Knicks record is one game under the Kings and two games over the Suns. If the Pels hold onto this one and the Warriors can beat the Kings in the game that just started, then we will pretty much be locked into the 23rd spot.

There is an outside shot that we could end up tied for 22 with the Suns if they win their last two, the Pels hold onto this game with the Knicks and the Knicks drop their last game but that's against the Pacers.

 

Thank you New Orleans!!!

 

Likely more important is that the Pels win tonight will continue to put pressure on the Warriors to win out if they want to avoid the play-in. It makes it far less likely that they will sit their guys on Sunday.

 

I don’t think there’s a chance in hell we keep this pick.

 

What are your thoughts? Use it to somehow trade up from 5? Trade for an asset we need?

 

Now that the Lakers and Pelicans have won, the Warriors can’t sit their guys on Sunday.
1) Both the Lakers and Pelicans win the tiebreaker with Golden State. If Golden State loses and either the Lakers or Pelicans win, the Warriors are in the Play-in.
If Golden State loses and both Lakers and Pelicans win, I think that would mean Lakers 6, Pelicans 7, Warriors 8.
2) All of the games involving these teams start at 12:30 on Sunday.

 

There’s almost no chance we end up at 5.

 

It only make sense to trade the Knicks pick to the bulls if we have another trade on the table. Otherwise just keep it and draft a player.

 

We were able to get Grant for a pick last summer. I wonder what we could get for this pick?

 

Cronin has told us what he's going to do - package the two #1s and some seconds and ? hopefully for a trade of a difference maker.

 

Depends on where our pick lands. I don’t believe we will trade the 1 or 2.

 

Myles Turner

 

I think 1 of two things happen with the pick

A. It goes to the Bulls in exchange for our own pick back

B. It gets moved along with our lotto pick, Simons, Nurk, etc. to improve and balance the roster

 

Agreed....but depending on where the pick is and who is available. #1, you keep it. #2? 'Westbrook with a better shot' is quite a player. The only player I'm trading a high lottery pick for is Embiid and that comes with massive injury risks averaging 56 games a year and that is AFTER sitting out the first 2 years completely. A couple of those seasons were shortened due to Covid, so the average games isn't quite that bad, but it's still not great. He's never played over 68 games in a season.

He will be 29 next season, so that would help to extend Dame's window, but all of this is reliant on Harden leaving and Embiid asking out....and then Morey not asking for Sharpe, Simons, and 6 Draft picks/swaps. Seems very unlikely.

 

I couldn’t agree more. It’s just my opinion that those will be what happens. Not what should happen. Top 3 pick, we should keep it. There are guys at 4-6 that would be great picks.

 

Which seems stupid beings that is the spot they will end up most likely. Seems weird that the 7th pick is the best chance?

 

So it'll be pick #23 we get from NY if:

NY loses to Indy this morning
Or NY beats Indy but Sacramento then beats Denver

So only way it drops to pick #24 is if all three of these happen;
NY beats Indy
Sacramento loses to Denver
NY loses coin flip to Sacramento

 

I tried that simulator 10 times up up #1 on second try but it came up #7 4 times.