2023 NBA Draft Megathread

[Coach Ellis]

View: https://twitter.com/NoCeilingsNBA/status/1668750121163698176

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hopefully, Trader Dan can sort out which guys are going to become stars and go get them.

I think the Jazz are going to be buyers this year and a move up - or multiples moves - are going to happen. Might be very different from what we’re expecting.

Personally, I’d love to see him add dynamic wings to the roster in the draft and then go hunt for a veteran PG via free agency or trade.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Man, if Walker fell to 7 I would seriously use the Laker pick to move up 2 places. Indy would be better off with Hendricks anyway.

No way.

 

[Elizah Huge]

Man, how many of y’all have jobs? Come back and am 19 pages behind in hours….

Git gud scrub

 

[Bodhi]

The worst is when you see that, figure something has gone down, and then read 8 pages of two dudes being butthurt with one another. . .

Exactly

“Oh ****, some bombshell must have dropped”

Noooooooope

 

[SoberasHotRod]

Man, how many of y’all have jobs? Come back and am 19 pages behind in hours….

My work pays me to be on JazzFanz

(Unknowingly)

 

[default]

Is there any basketball related reason to trade a pick for cash (like salary cap relief or something that I'm having a hard time envisioning), or is it just useful to line Ryan Smith's pocketbooks?

If it's the latter, **** that. **** that..

The Jazz have sold picks for cash before. Some teams do it to avoid the salary luxury tax.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The Jazz have sold picks for cash before. Some teams do it to avoid the salary luxury tax.

A 1st round pick hasn’t been sold for straight cash in probably 15 years. I think the last time it ever even factored into a 1st round pick was when the Jazz traded a 2nd in addition to the maximum amount of cash allowed for Gobert 10 years ago.

The Jazz are not trading it for cash.

 

[Elizah Huge]

View: https://twitter.com/KellyIko/status/1668713488850583555

 

[default]

A 1st round pick hasn’t been sold for straight cash in probably 15 years. I think the last time it ever even factored into a 1st round pick was when the Jazz traded a 2nd in addition to the maximum amount of cash allowed for Gobert 10 years ago.

The Jazz are not trading it for cash.

Are you calling me old?

FYI in 2013 a first round pick was sold for cash. It ended up being Rudy Gobert. 27 for 46 and cash.

 

[SoberasHotRod]

View: https://twitter.com/KellyIko/status/1668713488850583555

Hmmm, I wonder if at the same time. Much earlier in this thread I said if I was a GM I would want to see the twins in the same gym as someone like Black.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I see little point in drafting for Hendricks when you can trade for John Collins

 

[framer]

View: https://twitter.com/KellyIko/status/1668713488850583555

A Thompson Brother would put the Rockets into two more years of development Hell. At some point they need to add a few people who can actually play the game of basketball.