It’s official — the Boston Celtics will be selecting the 14th overall pick of the 2020 NBA Draft with the pick owed them by the Memphis Grizzlies.
That pick, which was enmeshed in a labyrinthine maze of pick protections and updated draft rules due to the Disney bubble restart, was sent to the Celtics in the 2015 trade that sent forward Jeff Green to the Grizzlies.
Protected 1 – 8 last season and 1 – 6 this season, the restart agreement reached by the league the National Basketball Players Association put the range Memphis could see their pick fall to at no lower than 13th, and it landed at 14th overall, guaranteeing either No. 14 or an unencumbered 2021 first-rounder as a result.
The picks are locked in ☘️ pic.twitter.com/UAhEnPV5xw
— Boston Celtics (@celtics) August 21, 2020
With the official results of the pick in from the 2020 NBA Draft lottery known, Memphis will convey the No. 14 pick at the 2020 NBA Draft, which will go a long way towards securing one of the players Boston may have their eye on in the draft.
While there are plenty of intriguing prospects well into the second round, most of the best are, as usual in the lottery, and armed with two other first rounders (No. 26, their own and No. 30, via the Milwaukee Bucks) and little roster space, a trade or stashed prospects are all but certain.
With the 2020 NBA Draft set to fall on October 16th, we have a little less than two months to go until we find out what the Celtics have in mind for the last big cache of draft assets left over from their last rebuild.
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