In case you wanted a greater instance of how second spherical picks within the NBA Draft are mainly faux foreign money, the commerce deadline had you lined. Each different deal contained second spherical picks, usually a number of of them — heck, FIVE second spherical picks had been dealt for Jae Crowder.
This isn’t some galaxy mind stage workforce constructing tactic and extra the NBA’s foreign money for “I dunno… give us one thing?” These picks are mainly crypto. Groups don’t know what they’re price, why they’ve them, or what they’re going to do with them. Certain, you would possibly randomly hit on a participant — however as a rule you’re both backfilling your G-League roster with them, or promoting them on draft night time for money.
Who doesn’t like money?
What number of second spherical picks had been dealt on Thursday anyway?
A hilarious quantity. FORTY FOUR second spherical picks modified fingers between the beginning of the day and the top of the deadline. There are too many trades that concerned second spherical picks to even rely, however listed here are the largest offers that exchanges probably the most picks.
- Jae Crowder traded from Nets to Bucks for FIVE second spherical picks
- Saddiq Bey traded from Warriors to Hawks for FIVE second spherical picks
- Gary Payton II traded from Blazers to Warriors for FIVE second spherical picks
- Josh Richardson traded from Pelicans to Spurs for Devonte Graham and FOUR second spherical picks
- Thomas Bryant traded from Lakers to Nuggets for THREE second spherical picks
These 5 offers make up simply over half the second spherical picks dealt on Thursday, with others being thrown in as a part of bigger offers or two-picks being traded for some pretty stable gamers like Bones Hyland, who joins the Clippers.
Extra seconds than a buffet dinner…
That is simply the largest meme of the commerce deadline. Dealing gamers for a number of seconds is a functionally pointless effort and so many modified fingers no one even bothered to trace what number of years out these are.
What we actually want is a coordinated effort to conglomerate all the second rounds picks in a single small market metropolis. Everybody can take turns. Say, in 2024 Charlotte will get each choose within the second spherical … then it’s Indiana’s flip, and so forth.
If we’re going to see each large market workforce get the gamers they need, the least we will do is let the smaller groups commerce their pointless NFT picks wildly on draft night time. Give ‘em one thing to do.