Report: Nuggets, Thunder swap picks, including first-rounders

Jun 9, 2023; Miami, Florida, USA; Denver Nuggets middle Nikola Jokic (15) excessive fives guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (5) after a play in opposition to the Miami Heat in the course of the fourth quarter in recreation 4 of the 2023 NBA Finals at Kaseya Center. Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

The draft-pick wealthy Oklahoma City Thunder are buying and selling 2024 first- and second-round picks and a 2023 second-round choose to the Denver Nuggets for a protected 2029 first-round choose, ESPN reported Friday.

Under phrases of the commerce, the Nuggets will obtain the thirty seventh choose within the June 22 draft and the bottom of Oklahoma City’s first-round picks in 2024, per the report.

Denver additionally has the fortieth choice within the upcoming draft. The new NBA collective bargaining settlement has made growing younger expertise important for luxurious tax causes.

The benefit of the commerce for the Thunder is the power to unfold their draft picks additional into the last decade. They now have 15 first-round draft picks by way of 2029, per ESPN.

The Thunder additionally personal the No. 12 choose within the 2023 draft.

—Field Level Media/Reuters