Oklahoma City Thunder Receive: G Spencer Dinwiddie, F Davis Bertans, 2024 First-Round Pick (Swap – DAL), 2025 First-Round Pick (DAL), 2026 First-Round Pick (Swap – DAL), 2027 First-Round Pick (DAL), 2028 First-Round Pick (Swap – DAL)
Dallas Mavericks Receive: G Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
This is probably the type of deal you were expecting to see in this article.
We know Presti loves picks. He loves them more than Jody loved Chachi. His world revolves around them like the earth does the sun. He’d be hard-pressed to turn down five first-round picks and/or pick swaps.
Effectively, that’s all he’s receiving of note in this deal. The Thunder won’t be concerned with either Dinwiddie or Bertans. They’re simply means to the end of sweet, glorious draft picks.
On the other hand, there are two reasons the Thunder could decline this deal (besides, you know, wanting to keep their 23-year-old star). The first is that they’d prefer to take on fewer veteran contracts. The second is that they’d prefer to land a 2023 first-round pick.
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After all, that class is widely anticipated as potentially historic. If either of those concerns is prevalent, the next deal will alleviate them.
