NBA Trades: 1 potential last-minute deal to shake up all 30 NBA teams

NBA Trades: Oklahoma City Thunder

With 30-plus picks over the next seven years, the Oklahoma City Thunder has more picks than they know what to do with. That is a good problem to have but they could begin to solve that by trading two of the four firsts that they own in next year's draft to a team in need of assets.

One team that fits the bill is the Denver Nuggets, who own just four picks. OKC can offer the top-14 protected first and top-6 protected firsts from the Miami Heat and Philadelphia 76ers for Denver's top-1 protected 2031 first. 

The framework of that deal is similar to the one that the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves completed earlier this summer, in which the Spurs acquired a top-1 protected 2030 first and an unprotected first in 2031 for the eighth pick. Denver would be mortaging their future to get two picks in 2025 that they can use to add two cheap players on four-year deals.

That would help them offset some of the bigger deals they have. For the Thunder, they would be pushing back the due date on those picks by pushing it five years out. That would come in handy when the Thunder get really expensive.