
Add: If so, that means the Warriors wouldn’t have to lose tons of remaining games to ensure a first round pick. Through a previous trade, the Warriors’ own first-round pick now belongs to Utah, and the only way they could keep it is if they wound up with a sorry enough record to get one of the top seven picks.
More: The Warriors also bought a second-round 2012 pick from Atlanta today—the lower of either the Hawks’ pick or the Suns’ pick, which Atlanta owns.