Folks need to embrace uncertainty more. If the picks are potentially more valuable that should make them potentially more valuable in a trade too. So trades can happen with fewer picks because each pick is more valuable. The Pacers didn’t trade the fifth pick. They traded the fifth pick in exactly 48% of the multiverses and kept it in 52% of them. Quite reasonable.
Genuine question - how to the top pick and top 5 pick restrictions work in practice. Let’s say the Utah jazz ball, owned by Memphis, is picked first - does that become the 6th pick? Or does their ball go back in, and it has to wait to be drawn until after the first five picks are drawn?
And am I right that the new lottery draft inevitably has to show the first pick first, correct?
Folks need to embrace uncertainty more. If the picks are potentially more valuable that should make them potentially more valuable in a trade too. So trades can happen with fewer picks because each pick is more valuable. The Pacers didn’t trade the fifth pick. They traded the fifth pick in exactly 48% of the multiverses and kept it in 52% of them. Quite reasonable.
Genuine question - how to the top pick and top 5 pick restrictions work in practice. Let’s say the Utah jazz ball, owned by Memphis, is picked first - does that become the 6th pick? Or does their ball go back in, and it has to wait to be drawn until after the first five picks are drawn?
And am I right that the new lottery draft inevitably has to show the first pick first, correct?
Yes first pick first
Thanks. Does that mean if utahs ball is picked first, it goes to 6? Or does it go back in?
I think it would have to go back in. They are drawing for each slot, not technically drawing for ordering