TDL Archived: The 2nd Rnd Pick Yankee Swap

[DanSchwartzgan]

To keep the record straight, fiddling with the NY pick doesn't change anything. Not enough to bother with somehow revising it, not enough to stop a trade if one is available.

The Mavs right now could trade the 3 picks (25, 27, 29) with conditions -- ones that wouldn't really matter. They have have to word precisely, such as "if 23 conveys, then 2 years, 4 years, 6 years after" (plus some more wording as to what happens if 23 does not convey to NY) with the other team comfortable the Mavs won't go in the tank and keep 23 pick from going to NY. That's so remote of a chance that it shouldn't matter.

I wrote about conditional wording not long ago, but I’m under the impression there is a benefit currently to removing protections on the 23 pick ‘IF’ the team wants to trade 25, 27 and 29 with conditions.  You have to be mindful of the max term for a trade to be completed.  The protections on the 23 pick mean it might not convey in time to fit three picks in before seven years is up  I guess a work-around could be creating an additional condition that the last pick becomes something else (two seconds) if it gets pushed past the legal window.  But, I don’t believe you can guarantee three picks in seven years right now without removing protections on 23.

Something else we all need to bear in mind if Dallas wants to trade 3-4 picks even this summer.  The protections on those picks will need to be fairly minimal.  As some have said, this summer we can trade 24, 26, 28 and 30.  But, Dallas would have to be careful about protections on those future picks as the protections can’t carry the last pick past the 7 year window.  So, the picks would need to be unprotected or turn into seconds the next year.  Even trading 3 picks you can’t have protections on all of them.