Thunder end trade season with 34 draft picks from 2021-2027
The Oklahoma City Thunder added four second-round draft picks to their deep stash this trade deadline season, giving them a rather remarkable tally:
Oklahoma City holds 34 draft picks from the 2021 through 2027 drafts. Seventeen are first-rounders and 17 are second-rounders.
This deadline season, they added a 2027 Houston Rockets pick from the Detroit Pistons as part of the Hamidou Diallo return. They received another 2027 pick from the Miami Heat for Trevor Ariza. They received two from the Philadelphia 76ers — a 2025 and 2026 — in exchange for George Hill.
Take a look at every future pick the Thunder own, along with the protections, here.
ESPN analyst Bobby Marks pointed out this absurd number on Twitter, and it rather took off on the social sphere. Generally, a team is supposed to have two picks a year, which would be 14 total over seven years. The Thunder average 4.9 picks per draft over the next seven years.
Oklahoma City now has a projected 34 draft picks over the next 7 years.
17- First
17- Second— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) March 25, 2021
Where are they going? I don’t know. There’s no way they can use all 34.
That’ll make for some fun draft season and trade talks over the next half-decade. Just because this isn’t the Thunder of the Russell Westbrook days doesn’t mean there can’t be excitement, as they’ve shown both on the court and in the front office over the last five months.
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