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Draft tiebreakers and possible picks for the Rockets

Discussion in 'NBA Draft' started by JT, May 10, 2000.

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  1. JT

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    Check out this article at NBA.com.
    http://www.nba.com/news/draft_tiebrekers_000428.html

    It lists the tiebreakers for teams with identical records in the NBA draft. More importantly it shows the possible picks that could be conveyed to the Rockets this year. Although it may be unlikely for the Rockets to get any of these picks it does provide fodder for the imagination.

    4 possiblilities in the first 13 picks plus the possibilities at the 14th and 25th picks. Couldn't just one of these fall in to the Rockets' laps?

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    Thanks JT. Man, Orlando may be getting a lot of picks, but they owe a lot of picks too. I'll be very interested to see how they handle this.

    I wonder why we owe Detroit a pick? How did that happen?

    Orlando, Detroit, Vancouver, and Phoenix all owe us first rounders. That's quite a few. And we owe Vancouver.
     
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    Actually all of those teams don't necessarily owe the Rockets a pick. Some of them owe a pick to a team that owes the Rockets a pick. If they give up that pick it could be conveyed to the Rockets to fulfill the obligation of the team that owes us the pick.

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    Our pick could go to Detroit VIA Vancouver (we owe them a pick). And we could get a pick from Vancouver via Detroit. Same with Phoenix...via Orlando

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    I think you are not totally correct nikestrad.Vancouver actually owes us a first rounder from the francis trade,detroit owes us one from the turkan trade with philly and orlando also owes us from the francis trade(garbage we sent them) so we have 3 first rounders more in the next few years.

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    It seems like the rockets are forced to trade one of their draft picks, but everyone that owes the rockets can trade any draft pick.

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    I don't believe that Vancouver owes us a pick, I know we owe them one. The Detroit and Orlando picks are correct.

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    I dont know if I am correct,thats just what I understood.I heard the did a swap of picks,they give us theirs and we give them ours.

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    Here is the trade, off the Player page of Steve Francis.

    Selected by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the first round (second pick overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft. Draft rights traded by the Grizzlies along with F Tony Massenburg to the Houston Rockets as part of three-way deal in which the the Grizzlies received G Michael Dickerson, F/C Othella Harrington, G Brent Price, F/C Antoine Carr and a future first-round draft choice from the Rockets, Rockets received F Don MacLean and a future first-round draft choice from the Orlando Magic, and the Magic received G Michael Smith, G/F Rodrick Rodes, G Lee Mayberry and F Makhtar Ndiaye from the Grizzlies on 8/27/99.

    Vancouver gets a first rounder from Houston. Houston gets a first rounder from Orlando.

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