Zach Lowe

But I get the sense that, like, look, obviously both of these teams will listen to everything that comes to them, including, you know, there was, like, I just randomly, like, Utah obviously made a big win-now move last season or win-semi-later move, I guess, by trading for Jaron Jackson Jr.

Keontae George is, like, a rising, perhaps, all-star guard.

Markkinen is an all-star.

They got to figure out Walker Kessler.

They want to re-sign him for sure.

You could make the argument that Utah is a strong trade down, trade down a little bit in the lottery, get another veteran player in the door, because I do think they want to get one more decent rotation guy.

They could just get that with the mid-level instead of doing any trade down kind of stuff.

My guess is they just stick it to and pick who's over there and are thrilled with it.

But what do you think?

Then we get to Memphis, who moves up to number three.

And sort of the immediate scuttlebutt questions, gossip was, what does this mean for John Morant?

Does this make them more likely, less likely?

They get a great prospect in the door, new lottery odds coming that don't really make it profitable to be terrible.

In fact, make it unprofitable to be terrible, to be one of the three worst teams and get relegated.

Would they just sort of keep Morant and try to have some fun and be frisky?

I think it actually probably doesn't change their course at all.

I think they're still likely to trade John Morant.

If anything, I think it may make them more likely to trade John Morant because you look at a team like Sacramento, who plummets all the way to seventh, doesn't want to be in that relegation zone next year.

Brooklyn, I don't really see the fit, but Brooklyn's an interesting case we'll talk about.

I think they're actually going to – are slightly more likely to trade John Morant.