12-11-2025, 01:32 PM
(12-10-2025, 03:19 PM)Dirknows Wrote: Why wouldn’t a team that’s a contender want to trade their picks in the soonest draft? When they know they will be picking in the 20’s. If they wait for future years they could be giving up a good pick due to the volatile nature of the NBA and injuries.
I guess it's cause their near term pick(s) have so low value or they've already traded them, but most of the time the trades are mortgaging the future to try and build a contender. Mavs just did it with the moves to try and build a contender around Luka, trade future picks to get Kyrie, PJ etc.