Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Knutsen]

105.3 The Fan was kicking around the idea of OKC's #12 and #17 for #9.  I don't think I'd do that unless they included an additional future pick as I'm not keen on moving out of the top 10 nor helping OKC get better.

I mean you wouldn’t do that trade now anyways, but could have a conditional agreement to move fast on draft night if the chips align in a certain way for both teams, right? 

If we were to have a tier of players we like the same and are sure that one of them is available at 12 and if we are also sure a player we like much more than this tier won’t drop to 9 (or see live that it won’t happen after the first few draft picks), then this trade makes a lot of sense. 

It would be the typical trade-back pattern happening a lot of times in every NFL draft and you have to trust your draft board and act according to it. I wouldn’t have done that before, knowing that Presti would always win - now with Ujiri and Smith I‘m optimistic it could be a win-win because of very different needs of both teams.