2026 NBA draft thread

[Chicagojk]

You may be right ...and if you are, and everything after 5 is TRULY all the same caliber, then of course trading down is a plus, assuming you get 2 shots instead of one, all of the same value of player.

But I would have to be persuaded of that. I think the lure of "2 instead of 1" can be a temptation DESPITE there being a player you really think has emerged as the best choice. And the idea that "we do like one guy the most, but we will trade back, and STILL get the same player" is also a mind trick you can play on yourself, and end up screwing yourself out of the one player worth having when someone else surprises you and takes him. 

If they get ONE player who is all-star caliber, that's a win. Identify that guy, and if you can pick him, get him and don't look back. There is no such thing as picking that guy "too high" -- there will be tons of bad picks, and the goal is to make a great one, somehow or other.

Yeah, I am almost always against trading back to get more bites at the apple.   Will probably be the same this year.   Just get the best player on your board.   I don't like dropping back when other good teams pick players ahead of you.    It typically doesn't work out for the team trading back.