(05-31-2022, 10:36 PM)ItsGoTime Wrote: In looking it over, Ind might be the only team willing to thin out the amount of picks OKC has by moving down from 6 to 12. OKC going home with the #2 & 6 from this draft while losing a couple future picks sounds like a solid plan to me. Certainly better than getting THJ and a pick around the same place that they already have one in the #30 (which they’re probably looking to either sell or trade out of the first round).
It would be far more likely that OKC trades #30 and #34 (or whatever their second rounder is) for our #26, if we would be interested. They have little use of a long term contract like THJ in their process. This year they start turning it around with their current roster and high picks. Next year they will have huge cap space and they surely don't want to kill that flexibility.
They are certainly not giving away picks because they have too many.