2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[omahen]

To the point of lifting protections, I know that we can do this is theory but it also involves the Knicks agreeing which they don't really have incentive to since it probably wouldn't change much in their mind so it would most likely cost us at least another second.  I do agree that would put us in a much better position but I've always been curious what that cost would be.  I feel like I read the Nets did something similar in the Harden trade but never really pinned down what they had to do to make that work....

As far as I noticed the price for lifting protection (Milwaukee was an example after lifting protection from pick owed to Cleveland) was 2nd round pick. Perhaps cash considerations would also do it. Of course this is something you pull when you have a trade for a great player lined up. So for example, if they have the option to trade for Jerami Grant, I guess you don't think much about lifting that protection. Obviously you don't do it for a fringe move.

I think limitations are just in our heads. There are plenty of options if the opportunity is there. You can also trade for 2023 pick. Perhaps switch 2022 and 2023 pick (sort of what Milwaukee did last season for Tucker). Mavs are so deep in trouble because of three wasted offseasons that they will have to be creative. This team is far from a little tweak away, imho.

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I would say that the Nuggets also included a lotto pick

Hampton wasn't a lotto pick, he was like 24 or something.