It’s been said that you can’t take your money to the grave with you. In the NBA, draft picks are like money.
It’s fine to be frugal. Holding onto your money is smart – to an extent. What you want to avoid is being downright cheap.
Teams are well advised to hang onto them – until an opportunity arises. Where one does, they don’t want to be cheap.
For example, suppose Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks requested a trade. He’d be worth a lot of draft capital.
Meanwhile, the Utah Jazz just happen to have one of the most impressive collections in the NBA.
Could they trade for Doncic this summer?