2026 NBA draft thread

[hakeemfaan]

This is probably not the point you're making, but to make an adjacent piggy back: Would Kyrie + #30 get you #10 from MIL? Not sure, but it starts to feel a little more possible to me. 

If I was into that, I think I'd want it to happen soon enough to discover how far UP I could get by packaging #9 and #10 together. Not that I'd do a trade like that, necessarily, but the optionality has allure for me, if possible. Can you get Peterson that way? Probably not, but if you could...

I don’t see any way to move into the top 4. Those teams ranked hard to get there and even pick 5 and 6 offered together is most likely not causing any of the top 4 to bite. 

I would love it if the Mavs somehow ended with two picks in the top 20. However whatever moves you stack up don’t try for 3 picks in the first round.  It realistically never works. All rookies need time to develop and stacking too many at one time is not doing the team or the players any favor.