inspiration from this tweet but technically wrong since it’s the worst of the two, but either are looking incredibly juicy right now.
Not sure if this warrants its own post, but I honestly completely forgot about this with all the 2nd round picks we’ve swapped around. It was one of the picks in the Conley trade.
Not exactly a 1st round pick, but pick 35 is generally considered better than pick 30 because of the optionality with the contract. If the season ended today, we’d have the 29th and 35th pick.
Genuinely a good asset it seems this year.
Another Leonard Miller in our future?
Just checked and it seems you are right. Two websites I monitor for draft content (nbadraft.net and nbadraftroom.com) do not acknowledge this. I think Memphis will play way better with Ja being back, but still, 40 ish pick is better than nothing.
I bet TC would trade that 29th pick into 2 seconds or something too lol
Then use the Memphis 2nd (assuming it’s late 30s/early 40s after Ja comes back) and one of the 2nds you get from the split and move up to get 31 -33.