2022 NBA Draft: #37 Jaden Hardy (6' 3", 6' 9" WS) to DAL | two 2nds to SAC

[ItsGoTime]

I know it seems like robbery at face value, but the thing is OKC has the most amount of picks any team has ever had in NBA history. They have 4 in this draft alone, and another 12 in the next 2 years. They have another 20(!!) picks the next 4 years after that.

They quite literally can field 3 NBA rosters from their picks alone and they only have 15 spots available. History also tells us that a team lead by 20-somethings usually isn't very good at all (usually because a team that young is normally tanking anyways so its a self fulfilling prophecy).

Because of all of that, I figured they'd want to consolidate picks and they would value getting a vet shooter that fills a role next to SGA and getting off of some money.

For any other team a lottery pick is high value and 12 shouldn't be had for something that light, but OKC isn't any other team and they are looking at least another 15 top 10 picks in the next 5 years alone.

Sure, but the trade suggested assumes they don’t value the picks they would be giving away. Recently GM’s have been putting tighter screws on their assets, not looser.