Julius Randle to GSW
Picks #3 and 7 and James Wiseman to OKC
Picks #6 and 14 to CLE
SGA and Andrew Wiggins to NYK

It makes sense for OKC because you’re resetting the rookie scale contract and likely picking up Jalen Suggs, and you still pick 7th overall. You also get last year’s #2 overall pick.

It makes sense for GSW because they’re in win-now mode, they need another star, and this move actually saves them >$10M. Getting an All NBA guy to add to your front court as Draymond Green gets older is a pretty sweet deal, I’d think.

It makes sense for CLE because, if Cade and Green are gone 1-2, they don’t need a center or point guard with Allen and Garland on the roster, so they trade out, still have a chance to grab Kuminga/Barnes/Moody at 6, and they pick up another pick at 14 for the trouble. They may even be able to extract a future 1 in the process.

It makes sense for the Knicks because duh. If the price you pay for a bona fide star player at age 23 is swallowing the Wiggins deal for 2 seasons (who may even be useful if horrendously overpaid), then you do it and worry about the rest later. We keep all of our draft capital and still have tons of cap room.

None of this would actually happen, but it goes to show that we may be leaving meat on the bone if we’re really not considering trading Julius Randle and just want to offer him max money.

This Memphis trade (and potential trade up) makes me think Jarren Jackson Jr could be had in a trade. They have to be offering 10 and JJ Jr in any trade up, no? And Steven Adams isn’t exactly old at 28, either.

Excellent call.

1)OKC is hardcore Processing, and while SGA is great, he’s about to get very expensive.
2)With Kemba as their only real contract, they can afford SGA’s rookie max extension, but that ownership group is cheap and I’m still not 100 percent sure that’s a viable market. They may have told Presti they’re fine spending money when the team is going to be good, but not til then.
3)Cade is a local star whom they believe would fire up the fan base, even if he’s probably a few years away from approaching what SGA can give you right now on the court.
4)There is allegedly a big dropoff in this draft after the top 4 picks, then perhaps another big one if you believe in only one of Barnes and Kuminga, but not both. They might not value the sixth pick on its own all that much, especially with all the others they have going forward.

I don’t think he’s on our radar and it’s a shame cause if we are looking for shotmakers there’s not many better ones in this draft and you don’t have to trade up to get it…

If OKC is trying to recreate the confluence of talent they got with Harden, KD, & Russ… that’s a dogdamn moonshot. But I guess they have the picks to do it.

I could see OKC wanting to trade for Cade if they believe he would want to stay in Oklahoma long term. Shai and #6 seems like too big of a price though.

Oh, I could totally see teams wanting to trade for Cade, but yeah, to give up Shai and the #6 pick? It doesn’t make any sense.

Josh Christopher, 6-5 freshman guard, Arizona State. “I give him credit for playing at the combine. A lot of top guys didn’t. He’s got a motor, he competes, he’s a downhill attacker. He’s a little undersized at the wing. Didn’t play up to his expectations in college. He got hurt and then basically never played again. It’s not like he tore his ACL. He’s a big, strong kid. He’s not going to move the ball, he’s more of a score-first guy. Raw but competitive. He’s really talented. Early second round, I’d say.”