Kyrie recently got traded to the Mavericks, in exchange the Nets got a few pieces plus draft picks. How is it determined who gets what draft picks? If Kyrie were to not be traded, he would go to free agency later in the year. If he were to become a free agent instead, would that also alter the draft selection of the Nets in this case?
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>If he were to become a free agent instead, would that also alter the draft selection of the Nets in this case
No.
>How is it determined who gets what draft picks?
It’s probably simpler than you’re thinking. You can offer your future draft-picking spots in a trade the same way you can offer your current players. So every team gets their own draft picks, unless they have chosen to trade some of those picks away.
So like, The Mavericks could have traded more current players to the Nets for Irving, but instead they said “we’ll give you these 2 players, plus these chances to pick in future drafts when it otherwise would have been our turn to pick”.
Offering draft picks in a trade is a way to get better *now* by sacrificing quality in the future. If you trade away your 1st pick in next year’s draft, that means you don’t get a chance to pick any players in next years first round…but it can also get you a good current player without having to give up a good current player. So teams trying to win a championship in the next 1 or 2 years will trade away their upcoming draft picks to try and get as good as possible now, in exchange for being bad for a few years after that. Meanwhile teams that are bad now and know they can’t win *even with* their best current players will trade those away to the top teams in exchange for draft picks, making them even worse now but with the chance to get much better in a few years thanks for getting to pick 2+ players in each round of upcoming drafts.
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