# NBA 2018-2019 Season **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 19, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212 "2018-10-19T15:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/581 "2019-06-16T01:40:37Z")
AD Traded to Lakersfor:Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and three first round picks from the Lakers ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/582 "2019-06-16T01:53:19Z")
Q: why are 1st-round picks considered much less precious in the NBA than NFL? In the NFL they are treated like a prized golden commodity (can’t recall ever hearing of one player being traded in the NFL for 3 first-round draft picks), whereas in the NBA they’re thrown about like nothing. It’s like an NBA 1st-round pick is only worth an NFL second-rounder or third-rounder. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/583 "2019-06-16T09:29:01Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Q: why are 1st-round picks considered much less precious in the NBA than NFL? In the NFL they are treated like a prized golden commodity (can’t recall ever hearing of one player being traded in the NFL for 3 first-round draft picks), whereas in the NBA they’re thrown about like nothing. > > It’s like an NBA 1st-round pick is only worth an NFL second-rounder or third-rounder. The only ones I can think of are Herschel Walker and RGIII. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/584 "2019-06-16T13:05:37Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Q: why are 1st-round picks considered much less precious in the NBA than NFL? In the NFL they are treated like a prized golden commodity (can’t recall ever hearing of one player being traded in the NFL for 3 first-round draft picks), whereas in the NBA they’re thrown about like nothing. > > It’s like an NBA 1st-round pick is only worth an NFL second-rounder or third-rounder. I think it’s more that a truly elite basketball superstar has more impact on a team than a football superstar does, and so is worth more in draft picks. JJ Watt or Odell Beckham Jr aren’t by themselves going to turn your middling to pretty good team into a championship contender. Kawhi Leonard evidently will, though. The only exception to this would be elite quarterbacks in their prime, but they aren’t ever traded. How many 1st round picks do you think a team would have given up for Brady or Manning in their primes? More than 3, I guarantee you. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/585 "2019-06-16T17:22:53Z")
The Jay Cutler trade is maybe the best example. I think the Bears traded 2 firsts and a third (and their own QB) for him. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/586 "2019-06-17T13:33:36Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > So if Kawhi Leonard, Marc Gasol, and Fred VanFleet had gone down to injuries and the Warriors had won, we wouldn’t be talking about how injuries were a factor for the Raptors? Of course we would, but in no way would that have cheapened the Warriors’ win, and eventually it’d be largely forgotten. Durant and Thompson’s injuries affected the series, no one said they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/587 "2019-06-17T14:27:01Z")
Congratulations to the Raptors. While Kawhi will never, ever be my favorite NBA player (but could nicely fit in the all-important Sports Hate pantheon), he has another ring, which made him shitting all over his ex-coach (the one with a dying wife) worth it. I actually think he might stay. Toronto is a lot like San Antonio in that nobody really cares about what happens there, but is twice the size which may have its appeal. We’ll see. Pelicans now have a chance to destroy _seven_ promising careers, instead of one. Can they do it? ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/588 "2019-06-17T19:15:16Z")
The championship parade is almost 3 hours behind schedule, due to the size of the crowds. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/589 "2019-06-17T19:17:04Z")
Which is the most Toronto thing that has ever happened. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/590 "2019-06-17T21:20:08Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Which is the most Toronto thing that has ever happened. And a shooting, the next most Toronto thing that could happen. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/591 "2019-06-18T23:22:59Z")
For such a safe city, it’s rather NOT a Toronto thing. Oh well, no one died. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/592 "2019-06-21T03:26:31Z")
Saddened to hear that with Lonzo’s move to NO, the much smaller market will shamefully deprive his charismatic, measured father the broad enough platform from which he can dispense his _bon mots_ of scintillating (and much welcome!) prudent wisdom and conviviality.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/593 "2019-06-21T16:18:44Z")
I have to give the Boston Celtics props for drafting Romeo Langford in the first round. He’s from my hometown, went to my high school(not nearly at the same time, though), and seems to be a genuine nice guy. So hometown kid makes good. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/594 "2019-06-26T22:55:07Z")
Free Agency officially kicks off this Sunday night. Any interest in a new thread? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/595 "2019-06-26T23:19:15Z")
I suppose you could start the 2019-2020 season thread, since, in effect, that’s what free agency will be a part of. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/596 "2019-06-26T23:24:15Z")
What the hell. Coming soon. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nba-2018-2019-season/823212/597 "2019-06-26T23:58:49Z")
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