NBA Draft 2022 Trade Tracker: Full details and grades for every deal

It’s NBA Draft night which means the trades winds will be whirling and deals will be made that alter the future of franchises all over the league. 

Like a tree falling in the forest when no one is around to hear it, is it truly the NBA Draft without an onslaught of trades?

Perhaps more than the fashionable suits and the actual players being drafted, few things are synonymous with the NBA Draft than trades that happen throughout the night of the event. Due to league rules, no trade is actually official until after the draft is concluded, but the safest bet in all of sports is that at least one or two names called at the podium tonight will not be playing for the team making the selection.

The question isn’t if a draft night trade will happen it’s what the impact of it will be?

Charlotte struck a draft night trade in 1996 that sent their first round pick to the Los Angeles Lakers for star veteran Vlade Divac. The only problem was that first round pick was Kobe Bryant. In 1998 the Dallas Mavericks traded  Pat Garrity to the Milwaukee Bucks for the rights to Dirk Nowitzki, and in 1987 the Chicago Bulls traded the draft rights of Olden Polynice and a future first-round and a second-round pick to the Sonics for the rights to Scottie Pippen.

All of those trades moved future Hall of Famers to teams they’d help win championships for.

Most recently the Mavericks and Hawks swapped Trae Young and Luka Donicic, moves that carried both teams to Conference Finals appearances within the first few years of making the deal. So the question isn’t whether or not we’ll see a trade tonight it’s how will we be looking back on it in half a decade and beyond?

NBA Draft 2022: Tracking every trade and grading every deal

Note: All NBA Draft trades will be listed below after they have been announced and made official. Be sure to check back all weekend for the latest trade details and grades. Only trades that occur during the three-day window will be listed, no pre-draft trades will appear here. 

NBA Trade: Knicks get multiple first-round picks for Ousmane Dieng

Knicks Get

’23 1st (from DET, protected)

’23 1st (from DEN, protected)

’23 1st (from WSH, protected)

Thunder Get

F Ousmane Dieng

NBA Trade: Knicks trade for Jalen Duren to salary dump Kemba Walker

Knicks Get

Nothing (They salary dumped Kemba Walker’s $8M)

Pistons Get

C Jalen Duren

Hornets Get

2025 1st Rd Pick (From Blazers)

Lol. That’s the grade. Like, it’s impossible to overstate how absolutely on-brand this is for the Knicks to make a trade for a lottery pick and then trade it away to dump $8 million to clear space for free agency.

Because that worked out so well the last time they tried it.

NBA Trade: Timberwolves offload No. 19 pick to Grizzlies

Grizzlies Get

SF Jake LaRavia

Timberwolves Get

Walker Kessler

Wendell Moore Jr.

NBA Trade: Grizzlies acquire Danny Green from 76ers

76ers Get

G De’Anthony Melton

Grizzlies Get

SF Danny Green

F David Roddy

NBA Trade: Rockets acquire No. 29 overall pick from Timberwolves

Timberwolves Get

Wendell Moore Jr (No. 26 Pick)

Rockets Get

G TyTy Washington (From MIN)

This trade completed the Christian Wood trade that Dallas and Houston agreed upon earlier in the week. Minnesota sent the No. 29 pick — which it acquired from Memphis — to the Mavericks who will send it to the Rockets as part of the Wood trade. That piece will be Kentucky guard TyTy Washington.

NBA Trade: Rewind to that Knicks chaos

Okay, let’s pause and rewind to the absolute chaos that the Knicks gave us on draft night. Tim Bontemps broke it down like we’re 5-years old to explain just exactly what the heck New York did on Thursday night.

NBA Trade: Kings trade No. 37 pick to Mavericks

Kings Get

Future 2nd Rd Pick

Future 2nd Rd Pick

Mavericks Get

G Jaden Hardy

NBA Trade: Spurs trade Kennedy Chandler to Grizzlies

Spurs Get

Future 2nd Rd Pick

Cash Considerations

Grizzlies Get

G Kennedy Chandler

NBA Trade: Warriors acquire No. 44 pick from Hawks

Warriors Get

G Ryan Rollins

Hawks Get

No. 51 pick

$2M Cash

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