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I’m curious if anything in the CBA prevents conditional picks, like the NHL uses occasionally?

As a discrete example, say that Jimmy Butler gets traded to LAC in a deal which includes their 2020 2nd, which becomes the LAC 1st if Jimmy Butler re-signs with the Clippers?

This mechanism would help teams better match the true value of a deal, providing insurance against future risk.

This is not allowed. Not by the CBA, but by the NBA Operations Manual.

The CBA has surprisingly little to do with draft picks and the trading of them pre-selection of a player.

Smitty731 wrote:The CBA has surprisingly little to do with draft picks and the trading of them pre-selection of a player.

The fact that the CBA doesn't deal with draft pick swaps isn't a mystery. The CBA deals with player-owner issues (while a swap of a pick is an owner-owner issue), and it deals with salary cap issues (while a swap of a future pick has no impact on a team's cap). So as you noted, this sort of rule would be in the owner-owner docs and agreements.

However, the CBA does mention draft picks and the draft a lot (about 100 and 200 times respectively), but essentially in regards to the requirements on players regarding the draft (including when and how many players get drafted), the relationship of players to the draft, and the ramifications of picks on team salary for cap purposes.