by Ryan Schwan
Let’s be honest. Are you even 60% sure that Buddy Hield, Dragan Bender or Jamal Murray are going to produce more in the NBA than say, Deyonta Davis and Wade Baldwin combined? Or Dejounte Murray and Domantas Sabonis together? I’m not. So why not entertain the prospect of trading down and getting two of those guys?
While there aren’t a lot of teams out there with multiple mid-round picks, it would be easy to have conditional deals in place with the teams that do – Boston or Denver. Something like “I’m taking Bender at 6.