Will you be able to Trade many years of future draft picks??

by **VlaDiv** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:40 am

I want to be able to give up 1st round and trade picks for all 25 years if I have to, to get a great team in the first year. Can you trade them for beyond next year? Is there restriction?

by **Sauru** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:27 am

i dont know if in the nba you can actually trade that far ahead(25 years) but i can tell you a rule that might piss us all off if they actually add it(which i would hope they did if they tried to add the realism of future draft picks) and that is, you have to have atleast 1 first round draft pick every other year. you cant go 2 years in a row without a first round pick. well unless you are the twolves and sign a junk player the wrong way makeing you lose 7 years of draft picks.

by **VlaDiv** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:32 am

Can you tell me about the Junk player what happened? That's what I thought about 1st rounds, 1 in 2 years, and maybe trade for five years in the future your pick?

by **Sauru** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:03 pm

the twolves made a deal with joe smith, i forget the exact details of it but it was sorta like, sign with us for a year at min and we will resign you next season for this amount. something like that. anyway they put it on paper(dumb) so they were caught and it resulted in them loseing thier first round draft pick for 7 seasons.

by **Riot** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:24 pm

DAMN IT!!! JOE!!!!!

by **Sauru** on Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:33 pm

lmao, the entire time i was writing that i was thinking of you riot.

by **SonnyDano** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:25 am

yeah, in the nba, you need to have a first rounder at least every other year. that's why the wizards had to draft devin harris for the mavericks, instead of just trading the pick to them.

by **JohnnyKnoxville** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:45 am

Sauru wrote:it resulted in them loseing thier first round draft pick for 7 seasons.

5 years, actually, and they got one back as well, which leaves them without a first rounder for 4 years total (IIRC 2001-2002 and 2004-2005).

by **Sauru** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:59 am

maybe you are right. i was pretty sure the original punishment was 7 years but like i said you might be right. maybe they said 7 years then cut it to 5? anyone else remember anything about this?

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:53 am

I'm pretty sure it was five years, with the NBA returning one of the picks (I forget the exact reasoning though). A couple of T'Wolves execs (including McHale) were suspended or at least encouraged to take a one year hiatus.

by **Sauru** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:55 am

maybe i am thinking they tried to sign him to a 7 year deal? whatever either way they messed up.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:59 am

I believe you're right, they were attempting to sign Smith to a seven year deal. And you're certainly right about them messing up. Verbally, it would not have been a binding agreement and would simply be a player and a team showing loyalty to one another - a personal agreement/promise that either of them could, in reality, break (see Boozer, Carlos).

by **Silky Smooth Vlade** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:41 pm

It would be cheap if you could trade your draft picks 25 years ahead of time. You would be able to assemble a dream team way too easily. It took me many seasons of Living' it up, but I finally realized the game is more fun when you have a realistic team, not an unbelievable all-star squad. And that's what trading 25 years of draftpicks would most likely give you.

by **VlaDiv** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:10 pm

If you did play 25 years through all the way, the balance would equal out. What would happen when the garnetts and kobes are gone, and you have no picks in the draft? Your team would jump from top to bottom. I think it would be fair if you play entire time. If you play only a couple years, obviously its like cheating.

by **Sauru** on Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:01 am

it would be very unrealistic to be able to trade that far into the future. no NBA team does this and its simply cause you dont know where you will be in 10 years let alone 25. hell even 5 years down the road you cant be sure where you will be standing. i would however like the ability to trade future draft picks but it might be hard for them to actually put into the game and balance. i got a feeling that if we could trade for a comps next years pick then we could probably dump a retireing player off to a team for it cheap. of course it could go the other way and they flat out refuse to trade it(like this years live only worse).

by **GordonBulls** on Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:03 am

however long the punishment is, the punishment will be up after this year.

just think, 1 of those draft picks, that they lost, could have helped the wolves a bunch, these past 3 years...

i bet that will piss KG off

Will you be able to Trade many years of future draft picks??

Will you be able to Trade many years of future draft picks??

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