This from Tom Enlund's story today:
"We're open to anything," general manager John Hammond said. "And we should be. Don't you think?"
The Bucks will be holding the No. 7 position going into the lottery and will have a 4.3% chance of landing the top overall pick in the draft. But they would be doing well for themselves if they landed either of the top two spots, enabling them to choose Kansas State forward Michael Beasley or Memphis guard Derrick Rose.
They are the clear-cut choices as the top two players available this year, much as last year when Greg Oden went first to Portland and Kevin Durant went second to Seattle.
But when asked if this draft was stronger overall than the one last year, Hammond said that was a "discussion point." Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the overall crop of prospects this year.
Trade the pick? Why not if it helps move a contract or two? Or, depending on who gets the number one, trade Redd and the #7 for it and take Derrick Rose. The pick could make a lot of deals work. It would certainly make Gadzuric or Simmons suddenly tradeable. Cap flexibility would be valuable. And it's not as though D. J. Augustin or Erik Gordon are guaranteed to be much better than, say, TJ Ford or Mike James or some of the other guards Larry Harris picked up and dropped in his first four years as GM. Remembering Steve Blake, Earl Boykins, Julius Hodge, and Reese Gaines, Eddie House, Erick Strickland, etc? Kendall Gill?
Or do the Bucks keep the pick?