NBA Draft 2008

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Pre-draft night trades: Below is a list of trades involving 2008 draft picks, that happened prior to the night of the draft. This is to, hopefully, help explain why the teams do not consistently pick in the reverse order of standings. Draft night trades can be found on the Draft 2008 page.  FIRST ROUND, PICKS 1-3: Chicago, Miami and Minnesota won the top 3 spots in the lottery, thus moving up. Yeehaw.   FIRST ROUND, PICK 15: Phoenix owns Atlanta's first round pick as a part of the Joe Johnson trade of August 2005.   FIRST ROUND, PICK 20: Charlotte acquires Denver's first round pick here, because Denver sold it to them the day before the draft.   FIRST ROUND, PICK 21: New Jersey acquires Dallas's first round pick as a part of the Jason Kidd trade of February 2008.   FIRST ROUND, PICK 24: Seattle acquires Phoenix's first round pick as a part of the Kurt Thomas trade of July 2007.   FIRST ROUND, PICK 28: Memphis acquires the L.A. Lakers's first round pick as a part of the Pau Gasol trade of February 2008.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 31: Minnesota acquires Miami's second round pick, via Boston, as a part of the Wally Szczerbiak trade of January 2006. Boston originally recived the pick from Miami as a part of the Antoine Walker trade of August 2005.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 33: Portland acquires Memphis's second round pick as a part of the Alexander Johnson trade of June 2006.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 36: Portland acquires New York's second round pick as a part of the Zach Randolph trade of June 2007.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 42: Sacramento acquires Atlanta's second round pick as a part of the Mike Bibby trade of February 2008.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 44: This one is confusing. Utah acquires Philadelphia's second round pick. In 1997, Philadelphia made a multi player swap with Detroit, featuring such luminaries as Eric Montross, Aaron McKie, Theo Ratliff and Jerry Stackhouse. In the deal, Philadelphia was to give a 2005 second rounder to Detroit. However, they didn't want to give up their own that year (which was pick 45, susequently used to draft Louis Williams). So, a couple of weeks before the draft, they acquired another 2005 second rounder from Utah - number 60, subsequently used to draft Alex Acker - and it is this pick that they gave to Detroit to complete the 1997 trade. To obtain Utah's 2005 second rounder that made this happen, Philadelphia gave the Jazz their 2008 second rounder. And that is how Utah owns Philly's 2008 second rounder. Nothing to do with Kyle Korver.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 45: San Antonio acquires Toronto's second round pick as a part of the Giorgis Printezis trade of June 2007.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 46: Seattle acquires Portland's second round pick, via Boston, as a part of the Ray Allen trade of June 2007. Boston originally acquired the pick from Portland as a part of the really quite poor Sebastian Telfair trade of June 2006  SECOND ROUND, PICK 48: Chicago acquires Golden State's second round pick as a part of the Milt Palacio trade of September 2002.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 50: Seattle acquires Denver's second round pick as a part of the multi player Earl Watson trade of February 2006.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 52: Miami acquires Orlando's second round pick as a part of the agreed-to compensation package for Orlando signing Stan Van Gundy as their head coach.  SECOND ROUND, PICK 55: Portland acquires Phoenix's second round pick, via Indiana, as a part of the James White trade of June 2006. Indiana originally acquired the pick from Phoenix as a part of the James Jones trade of August 2005  SECOND ROUND, PICKS 54 & 56: Very confusing. Houston has their own pick at number 54, although they had sorta traded it away at one point. Houston originally made a trade with New Orleans in July 2006, in which Houston received Kirk Snyder in exchange for cash and allowing New Orleans the right to swap their 2008 second picks should the Hornets so wish. Then in June 2007, Houston made a trade with Seattle which saw them giving up whichever one of the two picks that they wound up with to Seattle in exchange for Carl Landry. Then, just to confuse matters, in February 2008, New Orleans and Houston made another trade - the three team multi-player deal featuring Mike James and Bobby Jackson - which saw the Hornets giving the Rockets tehri 2008 second round pick. So now, with both their own second rounder and the Hornets one, the Rockets chose to give the lesser of the two picks - number 56 - to Seattle, thereby keeping number 54. I do this dull shit so that you don't have to. Be grateful.

Draft to be held on Thursday 26th June 2008