I notice that NBA teams are doing trade with "lottery-protected" pick, or "top-3 protected" pick. It seems like the NBA is the only league that does this. Why aren't the other leagues doing it?

5/29/2007 8:27:27 PM

well, you can't trade draft picks in baseball

so there's that

5/29/2007 8:27:58 PM

Though baseball has the rule where you have to give a team your first round pick if you sign their big time free agent.

Basketball has the lottery where even if you have the worst record you might not get the best pick (Boston and Memphis). In football if you owed someone a top 3 protected pick, you could just do shitty and finish with a record in the bottom 3 of the league and keep the pick.

5/29/2007 8:36:49 PM

^is that pick (NFL) shifted to the next season or anything?

5/29/2007 8:58:32 PM

no they don't do protected picks for that reason

you can trade a first round pick but the other team gets it whether its the 1st or 32nd pick

Like when the Panthers made the dumbass trade to get Gilbert we couldn't protect the pick at all so the Redskins ended up getting the 5th pick one year and the 12th pick the next

5/29/2007 9:04:04 PM