I'm nearly certain that since the Jazz didn't have a first rounder in 2012, they MUST have a first rounder in 2013. Thus they cannot trade their own first round pick unless they have someone else's first round pick guaranteed.
I would post the link, but it's actually the same one you just quoted from nightmare.
The Stepien rule applies only to future first round picks. For example, if this is the 2011-12 season, then a team can trade its 2012 first round pick without regard to whether they had traded their 2011 pick, since their 2011 pick is no longer a future pick. But they can't trade away both their 2012 and 2013 picks, since both are future picks. Teams sometimes work around this rule by trading first round picks in alternate years.
•Teams are required to have only a first round pick, and not necessarily their own first round pick. Teams may trade away their own future picks in consecutive years if they have another team's first round pick in one of those years.
So, just to summarize, Utah can indeed trade their 2013 1st. Also, supposing GS conveys their pick to Utah in 2013, the Jazz could actually trade both their 2013 and 2014, just as soon as the GS pick was guaranteed to come to Utah.
If GS ended up keeping their pick again, Utah could still get around the rule if they wanted to, by waiting until the draft, and then making the pick for another team. Once that happens, it is no longer a future first, so Utah could immediately trade their 2014.
I hate to disagree with Coon, but he is disagreeing with himself here. Everything that I've ever heard says a team CANNOT go two years in a row without a first round pick, no exceptions--including Coon himself.
From Coon's FAQ:
As a result of Stepien's ineptitude, teams are now prevented from making trades which might leave them without a first round pick in consecutive future years.
When dealing with protected picks, the Stepien rule is interpreted to mean that teams can't trade a pick if there is any chance it will leave the team without a first round pick in consecutive future drafts.
If the bit about "if this is the 2011-12 season, then a team can trade its 2012 first round pick without regard to whether they had traded their 2011 pick" were correct then a team could just trade away its first round pick every single year by doing it mid-season. There is no way the league would let that happen.
From other internet sources we have this one which agrees with me:
https://basketball.about.com/od/collegebasketballglossary/g/ted-stepien-rule.htm
"The NBA prohibits teams from trading first-round draft picks in successive seasons."
However, this one agrees with the prohibition being only with regards to future picks:
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2012/06/ted-stepien-rule.html
"Because the Stepien rule applies only to future draft picks, teams are still permitted to trade their first-rounders every year if they so choose, but they can't trade out of the first round for back-to-back future seasons."
Ah, maybe this is the resolution.
https://mobile.newsday.com/inf/info...ed:c=sports_blogs&feed:i=1.2618401&nopaging=1
At first it says "NBA rules prohibit teams from going consecutive years without a first round pick".
But then it says "I thought the '11 pick was off limits...because they did not have a 2010 pick... [But Larry Coon] confirmed that once a draft is over, the consecutive years clause resets to the future. So with a '12 pick in place, the '11 pick is trade-able."
So apparently it is possible, in certain limited situations. I'm still sure that if a team tried to make trades that left it with a first round pick for several years in a row the league would step in because that is violating the spirit of the rule if not the letter. The league still has to approve all trades, right?
Anyway, that's enough about that.
