Back last summer, two of the NBA’s most respected pundits penned analyses of the NBA’s draft picture going forward. The articles, which both popped in August, didn’t get a lot of attention back then, but now, after the Phoenix Suns monumental collapse, they have new relevance ... a lot of it.
Sam Quinn of CBS Sports looked at which teams had the best cache of traded first round picks, all 56 of them. The Brooklyn Nets, he wrote, had the best cache, highlighted by the Phoenix Suns first round picks in 2027 and 2029 and the Dallas Mavericks first in 2029 — all unprotected.