2026 NBA draft thread.

[valpocrewsader]

12 hours ago, TwinsBrewersWorldSeries said:

i pretty much dislike any athlete who has ever attended UT

Reggie White??

[patrickgpe]

9 hours ago, liveforoctober said:

I would love to know what the cost is to buy a pick - whether earlier or later in a rd like this. What do we think MKE buying #60 from Orlando cost us?

For an NBA team to buy a 2nd-round draft pick with cash, the typical amount depends on the quality of the pick and the year, but the usual range is:

• Late 2nd-round pick (55–60): about $500,000–$1.5 million
• Middle 2nd-round pick (35–50): about $1.5–$3 million
• Early 2nd-round pick (31–35): about $3–$5+ million

The NBA has a cash-trade limit that changes yearly (the amount of cash teams can send or receive in trades), so teams cannot just pay unlimited money. In recent seasons, the limit has been around $7 million per team per season.

[liveforoctober]

1 hour ago, patrickgpe said:

For an NBA team to buy a 2nd-round draft pick with cash, the typical amount depends on the quality of the pick and the year, but the usual range is:

• Late 2nd-round pick (55–60): about $500,000–$1.5 million
• Middle 2nd-round pick (35–50): about $1.5–$3 million
• Early 2nd-round pick (31–35): about $3–$5+ million

The NBA has a cash-trade limit that changes yearly (the amount of cash teams can send or receive in trades), so teams cannot just pay unlimited money. In recent seasons, the limit has been around $7 million per team per season.

This isn't something I've thought about re: NBA drafts before and organizational health. How often are late 2nd rd picks bought like this? If you are a team sitting in the final 10 spots of the draft will you typically have suitors looking to buy your pick?

I admittedly check out of the NBA draft after the 1st rd and then will check after to see who the Bucks grabbed or if any Badgers were selected ... but I've never paid attention to this part of it.

[patrickgpe]

11 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

 If you are a team sitting in the final 10 spots of the draft will you typically have suitors looking to buy your pick?
 

Normally teams that do this do not have a roster spot / cap room for the draft picks. I haven't looked at the Magic's roster / cap situation but the Bucks were famous for doing this before they started trading every pick they had because there was no room for their picks. 

[LouisEly]

On 6/24/2026 at 2:06 PM, BrewerFan said:

Again, you're mostly telling me WHY you think they gave up on him, but they definitely gave up on him. 
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/scott-skiles-i-would-not-have-been-for-moving-tobias-harris-from-the-bucks/

When I read that article, I see what I was referencing:

    "We're high on him," coach Scott Skiles said. "We think he has a lot of potential. He's just learning. He's trying to learn our defensive schemes, so he's getting taken advantage some by some veteran guys. But he's got all the tools. Offensively, he's a pretty well-rounded player right now, but obviously because of his age, we think he's going to get a lot better."

"At that time, we just felt [Luc] Mbah a Moute was a better defender and [Mike] Dunleavy was a better offensive player, and Tobias didn't get as many minutes. But we were high on him.

At that point, Skiles was coaching for his job, which meant wins, and playing young players like Harris was at that point compromised the defensive schemes. 

Use of the word "we" instead of "I" doesn't sound like giving up on him, but I guess it depends on who "they" are, Whatever.  And I think you can agree that they made a lot of trades that didn't make sense.  They traded down in both the 2012 and 2011 drafts, so they didn't exactly value draft picks then.

[BrewerFan]

10 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

When I read that article, I see what I was referencing:

    "We're high on him," coach Scott Skiles said. "We think he has a lot of potential. He's just learning. He's trying to learn our defensive schemes, so he's getting taken advantage some by some veteran guys. But he's got all the tools. Offensively, he's a pretty well-rounded player right now, but obviously because of his age, we think he's going to get a lot better."

"At that time, we just felt [Luc] Mbah a Moute was a better defender and [Mike] Dunleavy was a better offensive player, and Tobias didn't get as many minutes. But we were high on him.

At that point, Skiles was coaching for his job, which meant wins, and playing young players like Harris was at that point compromised the defensive schemes. 

Use of the word "we" instead of "I" doesn't sound like giving up on him, but I guess it depends on who "they" are, Whatever.

This was in response to you saying they traded him because of Skiles... who explicitly states he wouldn't have traded him and these comments are from his rookie year when he missed most of camp. If they'd have traded him at that point... it would have been particularly egregious. 
 

20, lottery pick, traded for a rental. 

10 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

And I think you can agree that they made a lot of trades that didn't make sense.

Yeah... sure.
This entire exchange started when someone said they feared this would be like our "last Tennessee reach Tobias."