{"id":583528,"date":"2026-02-05T05:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583528\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:55:23","slug":"thunder-acquire-draft-rights-to-balsa-koprivica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583528\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Acquire Draft Rights To Balsa Koprivica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thunder and Jazz completed a minor trade on Tuesday, with Oklahoma City acquiring the draft rights to Serbian center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kopriba01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Balsa Koprivica<\/a> in exchange for cash considerations. Both teams sent out <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/thunder\/news\/release-koprivica-260204\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">press<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/jazz\/news\/utah-jazz-complete-trade-with-oklahoma-city-thunder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">releases<\/a> to announce the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Koprivica, 25, is currently with Bahcesehir Koleji in Turkey\u2019s BSL. He played two seasons at Florida State before declaring for the NBA draft in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Koprivica was selected by Charlotte with the 57th pick in \u201921 and traded to Detroit on draft night. The Pistons sent his draft rights to the Clippers in a cash deal in the summer of 2023, and those rights were shipped to Utah a year later as part of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2024\/07\/clippers-jazz-agree-to-sign-and-trade-involving-westbrook-dunn.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trade<\/a> involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbru01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-04_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russell Westbrook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dunnkr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-04_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kris Dunn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There hasn\u2019t been any indication that Koprivica is considering coming to the NBA. However, his draft rights could be a minor trade chip for OKC to use in a deal down the road, especially if the team is operating over the second apron in a future season and isn\u2019t eligible to trade cash that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder and Jazz completed a minor trade on Tuesday, with Oklahoma City acquiring the draft rights to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78580,7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-583528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-balsa-koprivica","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116016481913910295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583528","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=583528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}