Draft insight from ESPN

[Dunthreevy]

We shouldn't trade our first rounder next year. It's a player like Jack/Ford/Tinsley to move up, or nothing.

I think Holiday would be a top pick next year. Certainly higher than I project us picking next year. I'd want to make the pick top 2 or 3 protected, but otherwise I think Holiday is worth the risk.

We need to get the #5 pick from Washington and take Holiday. It doesn't look like he is in the mix with Sacramento at #4 anymore, so odds are good he will be there. Package Ford or Foster with #13 and take #5 and Etan Thomas off their hands.

Sounds good to me. The only thing that sounds better is Holiday falling all the way to 13

[cdash]

I'm not cool with trading our 2010 pick at all, unless that thing is lottery protected.

[Donerik]

I'd rather keep our 2010 pick, a quick look at the draft express 2010 mock draft shows a glut of bigs that could be in the draft. You can make your mind up about the talent or who may/may not go pro.

a quick glance shows Craig Brankins, a guy some were projecting to us at 13 earlier in this process could be sitting around for a playoff team. It might be a deep draft, and should contain a few bigs if anyone we need them.

[Scoot McGroot]

The whole Al Harrington trade made me really uneasy about trading away future 1st round picks. It'd have to be a really sweet deal to get me to trade such an unknown commodity.

Who knows? Granger could blow out his knee and we'd be a top 3 pick, almost for sure.

[Wizop]

I would be thrilled with that, but Bird made it sound like thats not going to happen. From Mike Wells: "Bird would ideally he would like to trade up to get the No. 5 pick, but he said the Pacers aren’t in the position financially to move up."

Washington is only interested in moving the pick because they are facing real tax issues. any trade with them is going to include some really bad contracts because any other kind of deal does them no good.