ThunderBolt wrote:Spoiler:
I assume you mean the 7th or 8th worse record in the league. So this would be after the season has ended but before the lottery. At that point I wouldn't expect either team to make a trade without knowing the exact value of Houston's pick. It would be really foolish for us to give up assets for a pick that we potentially already own. I guess there are always possibilities but I can't come up with a realistic situation where that happens. I don't think there is a known value for this type of trade.
The only way I foresee us getting two top 5 picks without trading Shai is if the Miami pick ends up top 5 alongside our own top 5 pick. As of today, the Miami and Houston picks are both better than our own. Probably need butler and bam to miss extended time for that to last.
I agree that it's difficult to have any idea of the value of it because I have never seen that kind of trade but also we have a record of future FRPs so I kind of disagree that it would be foolish to try. We have way too many picks and a 30% chance of picking top 4 instead of +/-20 with the Miami pick is huge. But yeah probably Houston would want way too much because a FRP is not close to the potential reward they could get from a top 4 pick.