With a reputation for wheeling and dealing with draft picks, it is entirely possible the New Orleans Pelicans end up drafting a player towards the end of the lottery as a result of a trade. As has been noted across the internet, late-lottery prospect Wade Baldwin IV is an upside pick. Whichever team selects him will be almost surely be rewarded, but that ceiling likely won’t be reached until a season or two has past.
Improvement is the most obvious and intriguing form of upward movement in terms of draft stock, and improve is just what Baldwin did in his second year at Vanderbilt in 2016.