2026 NBA draft thread

[dirkfansince1998]

"Give them our #8 and our second-rounder. We get their #10 and #17."

That's not possible. The theory is that if you move down to 10 (from 8), you are likely to still have the same PG choices. But such a trade w OKC moves you all the way down to 12, not to 10.

That difference is HUGE. At 12, there's a greater-than-zero (more likely than not) that your PGs are all taken, and you don't get the pick of the bigger players either. If you don't like what's at 8, you REALLY won't like what's at 12.

Most likely means that you aren't picking a guard but could still be worth it. If the Mavs leave the draft with two out of Graves, Johnson Jr, Lendeborg and Swain I would happily take that over just having one of the guards (maybe not Wagler, have him slightly above the rest).