For any NBA team. landing a lottery pick is an opportunity. Sure, it’s an opportunity to draft an exciting young player. That’s the conventional route.
Still, it’s not the only opportunity that a lottery pick presents to a team, either.
A lottery pick is also a trade chip. If a team wants a slightly more seasoned player, they can use their pick to land them. That type of optionality is what general managers covet above all else.
Will the Indiana Pacers trade the seventh pick in the NBA draft? We don’t know.
Still, recent reports have suggested that they’re looking to move that pick for a quality wing player.
Could that wing be OG Anunoby of the Toronto Raptors?
