Wojnarowski On the protection of picks in a Rockets-Wolves trade: "You can only give a pick every other year, you can't give up picks in consecutive years. The protections would be pretty limited in any deal they would do if there's 4 of them."

Kevin O'Connor Potential changes to the NBA Draft that have generated interest at the ownership level include limiting protections after the top 4 amp freezing the lottery standings on an early date mid-year Nothing is set in stone but changes to limit tanking is a key discussion point

Darren Wolfson Kevin Durant vetoed a trade to the Timberwolves last summer because he didn't want to play under Chris Finch I don't have all the inner-workings of this but my understanding is KD had trepidation playing for Chris Finch Superstars want to play with Anthony Edwards

Windhorst The Minnesota Timberwolves are actively recruiting third and fourth teams in an attempt to help improve their offer for Giannis Antetokounmpo

Scotto Domantas Sabonis trade talks between the Kings and Raptors which would include RJ Barrett and Ochai Agbaji to Sacramento have paused Toronto is concerned about giving up too much first-round draft pick compensation to move Jakob Poeltl to a third team

Windhorst on why Cleveland is doing the Harden deal The key here is that the Cavs are moving away from believing in the Core 4 and I think the genesis of this is because they're worried that Donovan is not going to re-sign this summer

Smith A handful of NBA teams are pushing for changes to the expansion draft rules that would allow them to protect more than 8 players on their roster While other teams are advocating for rule changes that would make it possible for a team to lose up to two players in a draft instead of just one