John Hollinger

That offer from Miami will still be there in the summer, but they might also have much better stuff on the table from a Houston or a San Antonio especially.

I think Milwaukee has to be all in on that tank.

They can still get the number two pick in the draft, although they cannot get number one because the Pelicans are also so bad.

So Milwaukee has the lesser of their own pick or New Orleans, but they can still basically lock that into being a top seven or top eight pick in a great draft and still have a pretty good chance to end up in the top four, even though it's the lesser of the two picks.

It's kind of amazing.

Yes, because we did one.

And there's been a couple others like that.

We did we did a trade with Cleveland in December of 2012 and I worked for the Grizzlies where we salary dumped Marie Spates and Wayne Ellington and sent Cleveland a pick that was protected one through five and 20 through 30.

I want to say for a period for a period of like three years before before the bands expanded because Cleveland wanted to give itself a chance at a lottery pick and we didn't want them to end up in the top five.

So that has happened before.

It's rare.

It is more rare now because you don't see teams extending the protections out for three, five, seven years anymore because it's just the step in rule handcuffs are just too tight with that.

So nobody wants to do that anymore.

This is a rare exception because it only applies for one year and then it skips ahead to a much later year when the Clippers reason that the Pacers will be maybe outside their champion window and have a better chance of conveying a high pick.

So I thought it was a really creative solution for both sides where the Pacers could protect themselves from not having traded Darren Peterson for Evita Zubats, basically.

But the Clippers still give themselves the best chance at getting a true high pick for Zuba and basically two because they have another unprotected coming from Indy also.

So I thought I thought it was a really creative and fair solution that the two sides came up with.

Here's one where it's like, did they solve their problem?

Kevin Herter going to Detroit.

I mean, the Pistons are the one seed in the East right now, and they have enough of a margin that they're probably going to stay there.