{"id":698082,"date":"2026-05-27T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698082\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:08:13","slug":"playing-trade-or-keep-with-every-nba-teams-round-1-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698082\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing &#8216;Trade or Keep&#8217; with Every NBA Team&#8217;s Round 1 Draft Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This one&#8217;s tough, because the Denver Nuggets don&#8217;t really have any young prospects to attach to their No. 26 pick (unless they can maybe work out a sign-and-trade with Peyton Watson). <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And though it&#8217;s a ways down the board, there&#8217;s a chance that selection could give the Nuggets some of the length and athleticism they desperately need in a Western Conference with the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But this postseason (and really, every one since they won the title in 2023) has exposed Denver&#8217;s lack of physicality, explosiveness, and again, athleticism, to a degree that standing pat almost seems untenable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">If that 26th pick is needed to sweeten a deal that would bring someone who&#8217;ll play with more force, the Nuggets should probably part with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This one&#8217;s tough, because the Denver Nuggets don&#8217;t really have any young prospects to attach to their No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-698082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}