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, and not players picked with those picks), 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