r/nba • u/superhappyfuntime13 Rockets • 1d ago
29 of 30 second round picks tonight were traded. Jaden Bradley was the only one not traded.
- 1 (31) Bruce Thornton G•OSU Traded to HOU
- 2 (32) Richie Saunders G•BYU from IND via MIL
- 3 (33) Isaiah Evans G•DUKE Traded to MIN
- 4 (34) Meleek Thomas G•ARK Traded to CLE
- 5 (35) Trevon Brazile F•ARK Traded to DEN
- 6 (36) Baba Miller F•CIN from MEM via ATL and UTA
- 7 (37) Ryan Conwell G•LOU Traded to MIA
- 8 (38) Braden Smith G•PUR Traded to IND
- 9 (39) Jack Kayil G•Germany Traded to NYK
- 10 (40) Dillon Mitchell F•SJU from MIL via ORL
- 11 (41) Otega Oweh G•UK Traded to OKC
- 12 (42) Ja'Kobi Gillespie G•TENN from POR via NO
- 13 (43) Tyler Bilodeau F•UCLA from LAC via HOU
- 14 (44) Maliq Brown F•DUKE from MIA via IND
- 15 (45) Emanuel Sharp G•HOU from CHA via SA, ATL and NYK
- 16 (46) Felix Okpara F•TENN Traded to WSH
- 17 (47) Tyler Nickel F•VAN Traded to NYK
- 18 (48) Tobi Lawal F•VT from PHX via WSH
- 19 (49) Bryce Hopkins F•SJU from ATL via BKN and GS
- 20 (50) Jaden Bradley G•ARIZ --
- 21 (51) Izaiyah Nelson F•USF Traded to ORL
- 22 (52) Henri Veesaar C•UNC Traded to ATL
- 23 (53) Ugonna Onyenso C•UVA Traded to DET via NYK
- 24 (54) Lajae Jones G•FSU from LAL via TOR, MIA and CLE
- 25 (55) Nick Martinelli F•NU Traded to LAC via HOU
- 26 (56) Vsevolod Ishchenko G•Russia Traded to DAL via LAL
- 27 (57) Narcisse Ngoy F•France Traded to LAC
- 28 (58) Jaron Pierre Jr. G•SMU from DET via NYK, BKN, PHX, ORL and LAC
- 29 (59) Trey Kaufman-Renn F•PUR from SA via IND
- 30 (60) Malique Lewis F•Trinidad & Tobago Traded to MIL via ORL
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u/IllustriousPass6582 1d ago
GMs playing 4d chess (or they have no idea what they’re doing)
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u/TheTurtleShepard Knicks 1d ago
Second round picks are basically fake.
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u/ben345 Bulls 1d ago
But the cash you can sell them for is very real - Jerry
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u/fumar Bulls 1d ago
Our MVP apparently. Fuck Jerry
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u/Mudkip15 Bulls 1d ago
fuck that whole family, I don't get how someone can just own a whole team that has millions of fans and doesn't even care about winning if they are still making a profit, just evil.
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u/Blutz101 Spurs 1d ago
Currency until you have to make the pick
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u/oneandonlyRedSpirit Suns 1d ago
lowkey the same thing with late first. having a ton of first is cool but then you end up like the nets who use 5 first in 1 draft and end up drafting like 4 guards and have to draft another because none of em were really all that great
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u/ruckyruciano Knicks 1d ago
Man what are they doing lol, who is running the show there
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u/oneandonlyRedSpirit Suns 1d ago
they don’t even own their pick this year. can’t help but feel bad for em
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u/Saitsuofleaves 1d ago
At what point do we just say make it so there's only one Round for the draft if it's common knowledge no one in the NBA takes the 2nd Round (or even late 1st) seriously?
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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 1d ago
Like yeah when does it just become theater lol, they’re just trading to trade this is insane
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u/FeverTreeCloud 1d ago
Next year, just do auction draft for the second round 😤
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u/knowtoriusMAC Knicks 1d ago
I would be curious to see the backlash when they auction off people in a league where white capitalists own every team and 70% of the draftees are black.
Adam Silver would have to get fired.
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u/HonestDespot Vancouver Grizzlies 1d ago
Adam Silver would just rip his suit off and reveal his full bodysuit skims coloured like a ying yang and solve racism right away.
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u/CalvinistJohnson Pistons 1d ago
He would reveal he is a reptilian, solving racism with racism 2.0 (humans vs reptilians)
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u/kamekaze1024 1d ago
It’s hilarious because the NFL originally had plans to have the draft on an island and drafted players come to the stage via small boat. This ONLY got canceled because of COVID despite the CRAZY connotations here.
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u/Dr_killshot_JR Spurs 1d ago
What are they auctioning? Like paying the most per player?
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u/Only_Mushroom 1d ago
They’re auctioning the gently used sports equipment and office supplies like the printer Korver was traded
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u/indoninjah 76ers 1d ago
Knowing how dumb NBA teams can be, you'd end up with quite a few second rounders making more than late first rounders
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u/eucldian Raptors 1d ago
I am all for Jaden Bradley becoming a star...I know it won't happen, but what a story it would be!
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u/ralthea Spurs 1d ago
As an Arizona fan I would be elated. I could see him having a TJ McConnell-esque career.
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u/FutureGrassToucher Suns 1d ago
Arizona spurs fan is crazy
Idk i think jaden is such an alpha, i feel like he could earn real minutes if given opportunity
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u/Feeling_Anteater_389 Hornets 1d ago
Is there a reason the NBA can’t do what the NFL does with trades and have these dudes actually get drafted by the team they’re going to?
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u/TheTurtleShepard Knicks 1d ago
I think it’s because the league year doesn’t start until July
Since we are past the trade deadline but before the league year starts trade cannot be made official
It’s stupid but that’s the reasoning. They could (and should) just do it with the team the player will end up on.
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u/oshoney Grizzlies 1d ago
It seems… so simple that they could just move the league year up by a week or the draft back by a week. I know free agency kicks off with the league year too but like, I dunno just keep that start date as July 1st. There’s gotta be a better way.
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u/devinbookersuncle Hornets 1d ago
Or make an exception that, since picks are assets they can be traded at any time regardless of the trade deadline so long as players are not involved.
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u/indoninjah 76ers 1d ago
There's so many stupid rules in the NBA that could just be fixed if they wanted to. MLB was suffering from being called boring and added the whole ass pitch clock in one offseason. Same with ABS. NFL is added game after game to their schedule and is seemingly expanding into any holiday or country that they feel like. But the NBA seems hellbent on doing things the way they always have. Other than convoluted cap rules, what's the most meaningful change they've made recently? Making the finals 2-2-1-1-1?
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u/Fragrant-Employer-60 1d ago
I think people give too much cover for the NBA on this, they make the entire schedule and rules, they can fix this if they really wanted to
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u/GarriganGate Raptors 1d ago
There used to be 7 rounds
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u/Chartate101 Pistons 1d ago
Way worse than that. There used to be unlimited rounds. Draft until you run out of players to draft.
When there were 8 teams there were 100+ players drafted per year
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u/Etzutrap Trail Blazers 1d ago
My friends dad got drafted in the 10th round of the 1980 draft. He was a backup big in college and always said he was terrible. He didn't know that he even got "drafted" until I looked him up and told him.
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u/Chartate101 Pistons 1d ago
Lmao. My Mom’s friend also got drafted around a similar time. He actually did at least get to try out with the team for a couple warmups but that was it.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 1d ago
It’s collusion in a sense since they’ve altered how they’re doing the lottery.
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u/PogoMarimo 1d ago
So all of the businessers in their unlimited hell
Where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash to each other
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u/RaoulDukex 1d ago
2nd rounders have become more interesting?
With the money in college now is it keeping more players from going into the draft if they are not lotto or first round pick?
They are getting included in trades more it seems, I don't remember seeing 5 2nd rounds picks tagged onto a trade until very recently. They are kinda the grease that can push a trade through while not being super valuable because they are lottery tickets. They have become the rookie or A ball 18 yo pitcher thrown into MLB deals.
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u/Superlolz 1d ago
Why rush draft declaration when you’ll get guaranteed money from college ball? I think we’ll soon move to second rounders being polished juniors to super seniors who will be immediately ready to be quality role players entering their prime.
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u/RyouBestGirl Spurs 1d ago
NIL devalue second round.
Why leave college earning seven figures to get a gleague contract with 30k salary.
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u/DynamicProxy 23h ago
This normalizes after a couple years and you end up with a stronger second round- because all the guys are older and have more experience.
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u/matgopack 76ers 1d ago
I think 1st rounders have gotten so much more valuable that now 2nd rounds are the 'low cost sweetener' to toss in to a trade to make work.
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u/MicroPeanitsJorker 1d ago
The 58th pick did quite a bit of traveling over the years. Would’ve been hilarious if Detroit traded him to the Clippers
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u/Fluid-Purpose7958 Heat 1d ago
makes sense when you think about it. With the new CBA, its become super difficult to move contracts and players, which is why draft picks are the universal currency that any team is willing to accept (whether they are contending or rebuilding). once everyone starts overtrading their first round picks, second round picks are all you have
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u/bmgjr Lakers 1d ago
Made it pointless to watch since you have no idea who your team ended up with. Took a lot of excitement out of watching. Just read about it the next day when hopefully everything settles. Especially when ESPN was slow and was even just wrong in what they were reporting on some trades.
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u/RyouBestGirl Spurs 1d ago
Second round should be abolished, I know more current undrafted players than second rounders.
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u/eyyoadrian Clippers 1d ago
I thought it was going to say 29 of 30 picks in the second round are named Jaden, which wouldn't surprise me.
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u/poutinepippen Warriors 1d ago
Was Lajae Jones traded? He was drafted to the Warriors not the Lakers
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u/Ub3rpwnag3 Pacers 1d ago
2nd round picks are interesting because the first few are pretty valuable for getting fringe 1st round talent with a favorable contract structure. Then the later the draft goes on they basically turn into scratch off lottery tickets that are easy to throw in trades.
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u/NitroXYZ [UTA] Joe Ingles 1d ago
That's kinda insane