pepe1991 wrote: Once you put it on the table, they will probably draft 6 players and other than their own, not a single one wlil land in lottery.
Maybe it's not terrible salary vise, later picks are cheap, but at some point players and positions will just start to overlap and at some point you have to build a team, since picks don't play basketball.
OKC had 3 future HOFs in their prime, and 3 league's MVP on a team and made it to nba finals once. They are cow that gives you most milk, but kicks whole bottle later.
All those picks may not be super valuable individually. Though the Houston one this year, while top 4 protected but it could very well be number 5 (or 6-8), currently 5 is the most likely of individual outcomes. 5 would be extremely valuable.
What OKC will be able to do is find young guys including rotations players in the draft, and then use the rest of the picks to package for proven young up and coming stars. Potentially move around drafts to get their guy is there is opportunity as well with consolidation trades.
They probably won't make half of these picks.
OKC is a small market team, much like Orlando, and you get 8 years of team control from draft picks. If you can convince them to sign after that then great, but if you don't think you can you have to move the value forward
