Utah Jazz Receive: G Evan Fournier, G/F Cam Reddish, F Obi Toppin, 2023 First-Round Pick (NYK), 2023 First-Round Pick (DAL via NYK), 2024 First-Round Pick (NYK), 2025 First-Round Pick (MIL via NYK), 2026 First-Round Pick (NYK)
New York Knicks Receive: G Donovan Mitchell
Whenever a star-for-picks trade transpires, it’s subject to the same criticism. Those picks, goes the argument, will only convey late in the first round anyway.
History may repeat itself, but some people still won’t understand what it’s telling them.
A look at precedent tells us that the NBA is too unpredictable to make such a claim. In 2013, the Boston Celtics traded Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Boston Celtics for a package focused on draft capital. Two of those picks became Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
More recently, the Houston Rockets traded James Harden to the (again) Brooklyn Nets for seven first-round picks and/or pick swaps.
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If you’ve been keeping up with the situation in Brooklyn, you’ll be apprehensive to guarantee that the Rockets won’t get a lottery pick from that deal.
If anything, it feels like the team trading the picks ends up regretting it more often than not. Will the Knicks?
