Utah Jazz Receive: G/F Evan Fournier, G/F Cam Reddish, G Immanuel Quickley, G/F Quentin Grimes, 2023 First-Round Pick (NYK), 2025 First-Round Pick (MIL via NYK), 2026 First-Round Pick (NYK), 2028 First-Round Pick (NYK), 2029 First-Round Pick (Swap – NYK) 

New York Knicks Receive: G Donovan Mitchell 

If you’re wondering whether the Jazz would entertain this deal, look at the history of their general manager. Whether you’re talking about the immediate or distant past, this feels like a Danny Ainge deal to us. 

In the immediate past, Ainge just made a similar trade. He moved Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for a number of players – and four unprotected first-round picks. It was such a big haul for his Jazz that some suggest it broke the league’s trade market. 

Of course, that’s not Ainge’s only foray into hoarding draft picks. Way back in 2013, when Ainge was the GM of the Boston Celtics, he sent Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Brooklyn Nets.

In exchange, he received, along with players, three first-round picks and a swap. 

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To complete that history lesson, two of those picks turned out to be Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. In other words, the entire current structure of the contending Celtics rests on that deal. 

Should Ainge really make the effort to strike gold here again?