2020 NBA Draft Lottery

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Warriors Sound puts the spotlight on the NBA Draft Lottery where the Warriors secured the second overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. A feature on the last Warriors player to be drafted with the second pick, the legendary Rick Barry, is also part of the show.

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Warriors Sound: NBA Draft Lottery Recap

Golden State Warriors President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Bob Myers met with media following the 2020 NBA Draft Lottery in which the Dubs found they would have the second overall pick in the upcoming draft.

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Bob Myers Reacts to Warriors Receiving Second Overall Pick for 2020 NBA Draft

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The Golden State Warriors received the 2nd overall selection in the 2020 NBA Draft, as determined by the NBA Draft Lottery, which took place virtually earlier this evening. The Warriors, who were represented by two-time Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry, owned a 13.4% chance of earning the #2 overall pick.

The Warriors will have three picks (#2, #48, #51) in NBA Draft 2020 presented by State Farm. Golden State has previously held the second overall pick once, selecting Rick Barry in 1965. In 22 Lottery appearances since its inception in 1985, the Warriors have moved up three times, dropped down nine times and held their ground 10 times. Golden State’s last appearance in the Draft Lottery came in 2012.

NBA Draft 2020 presented by State Farm will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 18.

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Warriors Will Select Second in 2020 NBA Draft

The NBA Draft Lottery has come and gone, and now that the pingpong balls have settled the Warriors know they will enter the 2020 NBA Draft with the second overall pick. Though much focus will shift to who the Dubs may select with that pick, there remains a second piece that will play a role in any offseason transactions by the squad: a $17.2 million trade exception.

Both are assets that Dub Nation will need to pay attention to as the Warriors now look to the NBA Draft on Nov. 18.

The pick could be used a variety of ways. Yes, come draft night the Warriors will have the second pick in the draft, as well as the 48th and 51st picks, but the team could also opt to trade their pick(s) for a higher or lower pick. Furthermore, it could be dealt for a current NBA player or even traded for cash considerations or a future draft pick(s).

But what could the Warriors get for their second overall pick?

President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Bob Myers said during a Ring Central press conference recently that is determined by knowing two things: "what's the league's value of it and what's our value of it?”

“I don't know the league's value of it, to be honest,” Myers continued. “It's premature to even know the value of it, for us or for another team, so we'll have to wait and see kind of how things go in that direction.”

Also available to the team is a $17.2 million trade exception that the Warriors received after trading Andre Iguodala and a 2024 first round pick to the Memphis Grizzlies last summer for Julian Washburn, who the Warriors later waived. The simplest way to think about it: the Dubs can acquire players whose contracts are valued up to the difference between Iguodala and Washburn’s salaries, plus an additional amount more per the collective bargaining agreement, which in this case comes to roughly $17.2 million.

The trade exception expires on Oct. 24,  following the NBA Draft (Oct. 16) and opening of free agency (Oct. 18), so the window during which the Warriors can use this opportunity is slowly closing.

Between the draft pick and trade exception, Myers and his staff will have much to consider moving forward.

The assets the Warriors have accumulated go beyond the 2020 offseason too as the Dubs also have acquired a number of picks headed into the future. Below is a complete breakdown of those picks by year, including the protections and who they came from should anyone in Dub Nation want to start their own scouting.

2020: Golden State’s first round pick (2nd overall), Utah Jazz’s second round pick (48th overall), Dallas Mavericks’ second round pick (51st overall)Golden State’s second round pick traded to Dallas Mavericks in July 2016, along with Andrew Bogut for future draft considerations

2021: Golden State’s first round pick, Minnesota Timberwolves’ first round pick (top-3 protected), Minnesota’s second round pick, Denver Nuggets’ second round pickGolden State’s second round pick traded to New Orleans Pelicans during 2019 NBA Draft for Alen Smailagic

2022: Golden State’s first-round pick, Golden State’s second-round pick, Toronto Raptors’ second-round pick

2023: Golden State’s first-round pickGolden State’s second round pick traded to New Orleans Pelicans during 2019 NBA Draft for Alen Smailagic

2024: NoneGolden State’s first round pick (top-4 protected) traded to Memphis Grizzlies in July 2019 along with Andre Iguodala for Julian Washburn; a traded player exception available to Warriors as part of the trade. Golden State’s second round pick traded to Atlanta Hawks morning of 2019 NBA Draft for 41st overall pick (Eric Paschall)

2025: Golden State’s first-round pickGolden State’s second round pick traded to Brooklyn Nets in July 2019 along with Kevin Durant for D’Angelo Russell

2026: Golden State’s first-round pickGolden State’s second round pick traded to Atlanta Hawks in July 2019 along with Damian Jones for Omari Spellman

So there you have it, Dub Nation. These are the tools the Myers and his team have at their fingertips.

*Some picks are dealt with conditions as part of the trade. Using this past summer’s Kevin Durant-D’Angelo Russell trade as an example, the deal with the Brooklyn Nets included the Dubs’ 2020 first round pick which became top-20 protected. In other words, the deal included the stipulation that if the Warriors finished the 2019-20 season with a record that placed them in the first 20 teams in the in the 2020 NBA Draft, the Warriors would not need to include that pick in the trade and instead send a future second round pick (in 2025).

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What to Know as the Dubs Prepare for the 2020 NBA Draft

"Everyone has a purpose. It's just a matter of when you discover yours." Get to know Larry O'Brien Lacob, Co-Executive Chairman Joe Lacob's lucky dog, as the Dubs prepare for the 2020 NBA Draft Lottery.

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Meet Larry O'Brien Lacob, the Warriors' 2020 NBA Draft Lottery Lucky Charm

Take a look at the probabilities of the Warriors yielding the first through fifth picks through the 2020 NBA Draft Lottery, and learn a few fun facts along the way.

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Dubs Draft Lottery Odds

The Warriors are in the 2020 NBA Draft Lottery, which airs Thursday, Aug. 20 at 5:30 p.m. PST on ESPN. What does that mean and how does it work? Take a look!

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How the NBA Draft Lottery Works

With the NBA Draft Lottery fast approaching on Thursday, Aug. 20, Warriors General Manager Bob Myers met with media via RingCentral to discuss the upcoming event and ensuing 2020 NBA Draft.

Though the Warriors are guaranteed a pick within the first five slots of the draft, Dub Nation and Myers alike await to see exactly where the team will fall in the selection order. All will be determined Thursday at 5:30 p.m. on ESPN when a flurry of pingpong balls determine the fates of the Dubs and the other 13 non-playoff teams.

From the scouting process to what the Warriors may do with their pick, take a listen to what Myers had to say about what the team faces this offseason, or take a look at some of the highlights below.

Q: In a draft like this, how do you balance drafting for need versus drafting the best player available?
BOB MYERS: “I think the answer you don't want to hear, which is the truth, is that hopefully you can do both. I don't know where we're going to pick yet, but you don't pick 1 through 5 that often, so the goal would be to get somebody who can help you now and help you later.”

Q. You've had eight drafts now, going on nine. What have you learned, and how is your approach different now than it was in your first draft or two?
MYERS: “Probably more analytical. It doesn't mean you respond to the analytics, but they're introduced into the process a lot more than they were previously in the last seven, eight years. So that factors into things. It gets very mathematical, and you have to decide how much you want to weight that as part of the process.”

Q. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak and college season being cut short, do you think it's at all possible you might draft somebody where you haven't seen a game in person and haven't seen a workout?
MYERS: “Yeah, it is, it absolutely is, which makes you a little uncomfortable, to be honest. It's a rare thing to not have… I would have liked to see more guys than I did, but if you're talking about me, that's a possibility. If you're talking about our group, I think between us all, somebody will have seen the person at least play. Now, whether we get to see them in our facility or not or in another place, that's to be determined, but as far as seeing them in a game, I think somebody or more than one will be able to raise their hand and say, I saw him or I saw him a few times."

Q. Depending on the results from the lottery, would you trade out or trade down in the draft?
MYERS: "I don't know. There's a lot of variables right -- well, there's a big variable not knowing our pick, but assuming we know it, then it becomes what's the league's value of it and what's our value of it. I don't know the league's value of it, to be honest. Nobody is talking about trades… Even assuming we had the pick number in hand, it's premature to even know the value of it, for us or for another team, so we'll have to wait and see kind of how things go in that direction.”