2020 NBA Draft

[EricaLubarsky]

Originally Posted by MFFL

I don't see any commitments against our 2025 draft

Yeah we have our 2025 right now. First article I pulled up said up to 2025, but that's only worst-case.

Pick 1 - 2021 is completely unprotected

Pick 2 - 2023 is top-10 protected. If they don't get 2023, then they get 2024 1-10 protected. If they don't get 2024 (1-10 protected), then they get 2025 (top 10 protected). If they dont get a first-rounder by 2025, then it just becomes a second-rounder.

With how we are going, next year's pick will be late first (18-30) and we'll hand over another 20-30 pick in 2023 and be done with it. That trade looked a lot better for the Knicks when we weren't a playoff team and had a chance at high picks.

What it does mean is that until 2023, the earliest of our first rounders we can trade away right now is 2026 . Best we can do until then is trade a player immediately after drafting him in 2020 or 2022 since then it's player rights and not a pick that we're trading.