01-04-2022, 06:04 PM
(01-04-2022, 05:13 PM)dynamicalVoid Wrote: So...I havent seen an analysis on what Presti's plan is with all these picks...and I'm not educated on basketball office stuff to be able to figure it out. I guess there is no regulation by the league on what he is doing...but I assume the commission has asked him and knows the possible moves Presti is going to make.
So...assume there is no Lebron James coming out of high school soon...and presti has more picks than seats on the team...and include cap ramifications...
What are Prestis moves? Basically over pay with draft capital to get the team he wants? Won't that disturb the market prices that prudent GMs have established on players?
I guess as an uneducated watcher...all I see is over paying by offering draft capital other teams see as too good to pass up to get the players/team Presti wants.
Someone please correct me
I think, very rarely, are you going to see a team trade a high pick if that pick is a franchise level player. Those picks are just very rarely for sale...no matter how many picks you have. For instance moving from pick #7 to pick #1.
Presti has so many picks that he can't use them all. I would think he uses picks to go from 14 to 7-8 if they target a certain player. He can overpay if needed in that scenario. But he will need to move some picks because he won't have enough room for all of them.
So maybe they package a few picks to target certain draft prospects and then possibly throw a ton of picks at a team with a star who has multiple years left on their contract. That probably won't happen until they have a better core group of players though.