freakazoid
Well-Known Member
Question about trading picks. If Jazz trade up, can they use their 2016 pick or would that be trading 2 1st round picks in a row? Technically they would be trading prospects, and the team they trade up with will be picking for the player right? .
Rule only applies to future picks, so the way around it is to make the pick and then trade the player. Also, Utah has the GS pick unprotected in 2017, so we could actually trade our 16 and 17 picks, if we were so inclined. As long as you have any first rounder, whether it's your own or not, you could trade 2 consecutive picks. If Utah didn't have the GS pick, we wouldn't be able to trade 2 consecutive 1sts. The OKC pick would not allow for that, because of the protection/criteria to receive, it is not known when the pick will be acquired.