Would the Suns do it for Cleveland's pick and Osman?
(though this would then force Cle to have to use the Net's pick...)
So I'm actually confused by this? I don't think we are forced to use the Nets pick right? We could also, trade the Nets pick away as long as we get a 2018 First round pick back in the deal (unprotected).
So like, even if we traded the Cleveland pick, we could still (technically) do something like:
Cleveland Gets: Cousins, Golden State First Round Pick (unprotected)
NO Gets: BKN 1st Round pick, TT
GS Gets: Cedi Osman
Right? Not necessarily with golden state -- just any team that would have a guaranteed low-first round pick. A trade like that wouldn't be hard to work out, because the value of the rest of the trade will be so high, that it should be cheap to pay off a third team to trade a pick in the deal.