Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 7:24 pm Post subject: Lakers Draft Pick Table: No Picks? Actually 5 of next 7 1sts . . .
Hey All,
I feel like there's an impression the Lakers have "no upcoming picks" but that's far from the case. They do have limited trade flexibility. I break it down in my latest video, Los Angeles Lakers Draft Pick Table
Looking at their draft table, the New York Knicks are in a position of strength. They have cap room, are a potential playoff team and may finally have a bright future after some years of struggle. My latest video on YouTube: _________________ Salary Cap Strategist and Columnist at Bleacher Report and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/EricPincus
The Golden State Warriors have a complex Draft Pick Table - with a MASSIVE piece in the Minnesota 2021 (or 2022) first, but then they also owe a couple and have some iffy flexibility. What can and can't they do? _________________ Salary Cap Strategist and Columnist at Bleacher Report and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/EricPincus
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 8:12 am Post subject:
Eric,
Could the lakers make their pick in any of these drafts then trade it after making the pick? I assume there is a certain amount of time the needs to pass? _________________ “What is 17,505”
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Teams are restricted from trading away future first round draft picks in consecutive years. This is known as the "Ted Stepien Rule." Stepien owned the Cavs from 1980-83, and made a series of bad trades (such as the 1980 trade mentioned above) that cost the Cavs several years' first round picks. As a result of Stepien's ineptitude, teams are now prevented from making trades which might leave them without a first round pick in consecutive future years.
The Stepien rule applies only to future first round picks. For example, if this is the 2017-18 season, then a team can trade its 2018 first round pick without regard to whether they had traded their 2017 pick, since their 2017 pick is no longer a future pick. But they can't trade away both their 2018 and 2019 picks, since both are future picks. Teams sometimes work around this rule by trading first round picks in alternate years, or by giving one team the right to swap picks with the other.
When dealing with protected picks, the Stepien rule is interpreted to mean that a team can't trade a pick if there is any chance at all that it will leave the team without a first round pick in consecutive future drafts.
If a team trades two future first round picks and the first of those picks is protected, then that pick would be conveyed in the first draft in which the protection does not apply (as described above), and the second pick would be conveyed two years after the first pick is conveyed. But since both picks must be conveyed within seven years, the protection on the first pick cannot last longer than four years (i.e., the first pick must be conveyed by the fifth year).
A team can have up to two picks with this two-year waiting period in effect at any time. In order to have two such picks with subsequent conveyance, the protection on the first trade cannot last longer than two years (i.e., the first pick must be conveyed by the third year, so the first subsequent pick is conveyed by the fifth year, and the second subsequent pick is conveyed by the seventh year).
This is a key sentence in the above:
The Stepien rule applies only to future first round picks.
After a selection is made in the draft, it is the rights to a prospect/player and no longer a future draft pick. The rights can be traded provided that the other parts of the trade rules are followed.
The best way to look at it - when you draft a player, it is no longer a pick but the rights to that player. There's no restriction in trading the rights to that player - the pick no longer exists as a pick once it's made _________________ Salary Cap Strategist and Columnist at Bleacher Report and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/EricPincus
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