No way Ainge will give unprotected unknown 1st pick.
At the least he would have made top 3 protected, like all the picks are dealt nowadays (at least since Billy King incident).
At the time he wouldn't have been able to add a protection to the pick, that came along with the new CBA.
Danny said they probably went too far with their offer so it's believable. What is also shows is that a first rounder in the current year is waaaay overvalued because teams key in on players. So when people say that players were bought for peanuts this deadline, bear in mind that we may not have had the asset that the other team coveted.
I guess I'm unclear on the rule change. I thought the recent change allowed teams to protect *conditionally acquired picks*, which wasn't allowed before. The BKN 17 would fall into that category.
But I also thought that even previously, a team could protect a pick it owned outright from another team, if it traded it again. BKN 16 would have fallen into that category.
Is that wrong? Was it also against the rules to protect *any acquired pick*, until recently? Meaning that yes, we could not have protected the BKN 16 pick in a proposed Winslow trade?