{"id":386385,"date":"2025-11-03T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/386385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:14:12","slug":"knicks-worthless-trade-asset-exposes-one-of-nbas-stupidest-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/386385\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; worthless trade asset exposes one of NBA&#8217;s stupidest rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re revving up those fake trade proposals for Giannis Antetokounmpo or the backup point guard the Knicks still haven\u2019t found, you\u2019re better off ignoring first-round picks as a trade asset.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks, after all, only have one that\u2019s trade eligible. And it\u2019s basically worthless.<\/p>\n<p>Why? It\u2019s the Wizards\u2019 pick acquired in a deal over three years ago, and it\u2019s protected 1 thru 8. If it doesn\u2019t convey this summer \u2013 like it didn\u2019t convey last summer, or the summer prior \u2013 it becomes two second-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, pretty worthless. Just ask other teams how they value that pick. The Wizards, who arrived at MSG for Monday night\u2019s game with a 1-5 record, can guarantee they keep the pick by finishing with one of the worst four records this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019re revving up those fake trade proposals for Giannis Antetokounmpo or the backup point guard the Knicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[2214,7,6,12,7332,191,66,198,196,59432,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-386385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-adam-silver","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft","12":"tag-nba-tanking","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-sports-tanking","18":"tag-washington","19":"tag-washington-wizards","20":"tag-washingtonwizards","21":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115487602832307591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}