(01-06-2026, 04:10 PM)soog Wrote: Even though they still retain their own 2028 pick? I thought that rule only applies to the teams own picks. It may be wrong, but I thought Spotrac accounts for that rule and it approves the trade.
My understanding is you have to have one pick even if it's not originally your own. I'm not sure why Spotrac allows the worst of OKC/DAL 28 FRP to be traded outright. Maybe it's relying on the user to send another pick back in that year? Or maybe it sees that Dallas has a 27 FRP and doesn't recognize it is owed to Charlotte with top 2 protection? (Edit: And as Dan points out below, the 27 MIL FRP from Atlanta doesn't quite count here either) Now I remember that Dallas does own the 29 LAL FRP, so that side of it isn't the issue.
I suppose you could trade another swap with Atlanta (worst of 28 OKC/DAL/ATL), but the Atlanta pick has all kinds of convoluted swaps on it to begin with it. I'm not sure there's much value there as OKC is likely to be a worse pick than the Atlanta pick anyway. Your post mentioned something about swapping the 28 OKC/DAL FRP for a 27 MIL FRP, which I don't think can happen as they are in different drafts. I'm guessing you just meant trading one for the other, not technically a "swap".
This stuff is all very confusing though so I could be off the mark.