David Lee is owed $30+ million over the next two years. Kevin Martin is owed about $21 million over the next three years. Yeah, if I'm Minnesota, there's no way in hell I'm accepting that I need to include a first to dump Martin for no immediate financial relief when I'm also trading you Kevin Love.
Which is a moot point, anyway, since that first can't be traded.
The player can be, though. Don't act like you didn't know that.
Of course I know that. But you don't leak stuff like that before the draft since that's illegal, unless you want the league investigating you like they did with Doc Rivers and the Clippers.
Its not illegal to discuss the trade, its illegal to have the trade call with the league and make it official.
Everything is above board here, you can agree to and leak an agreement in principal all you want.
I am willing to bet it's illegal to blatantly circumvent a league rule that prevents you from trading away future draft picks by offering to make a pick for a team and then trading said pick away. By all means, if you have previous examples of this, show them to me.
Are you joking? That's the whole point of the 'agreed in principle' clause that's attached to these reports. It's perfectly legal to trade players after you've drafted them.
But, since you're unwilling to do even some cursory legwork (the rule is explicitly about trading "future" first round picks in consecutive years, which you would know if you'd looked it up rather than saying "NO!"), the Lakers are a great example:
2008 - Pick traded to Memphis as part of Gasol trade.
2009 - Pick traded to Knicks for cash and a future second rounder
2010 - Pick traded to Memphis as part of Gasol trade
2011 - Pick traded to Brooklyn as part of Vujacic trade
2012 - Pick traded to Cleveland as part of Sessions trade
2013 - Pick traded to Phoenix as part of Nash trade
Firstly, I'm quite aware of what the Stepien Rule is, so don't assume I'm ignorant on that front, thanks. Secondly, if you actually bothered to look at Minnesota's draft pick status, you'd know that due to protections on the pick they owe to Phoenix, the year it will be conveyed is variable, therefore they cannot trade any
future first round draft picks period until they transfer that pick to Phoenix. The Stepien Rule has nothing to do with this at all. But good effort.
Finally: cool, a list of the Lakers trading draft picks in draft day deals. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything I'm talking about, though. Unless you're telling me there were reports coming out days in advance of the draft about how the Lakers, knowing they couldn't trade away their first rounder in said draft, were going to pick a player for a specific team and then went on to do just that.
@Fafnir: I'm aware of what happens on draft day. Draft day deals are different because you are no longer dealing with a
future draft. I'm talking about a team openly leaking reports in advance of the draft talking about how they're going to circumvent a rule preventing them from trading future draft picks.
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