Nick Wright LOSES HIS MIND over Pelicans-Hawks trade during NBA Draft | What’s Wright

Nick Wright LOSES HIS MIND over Pelicans-Hawks trade during NBA Draft | What’s Wright

oh there is a trade the Atlanta Hawks are trading the number 13 pick to the New Orleans Pelicans wow wait this is this right hold on this tweet this post has been deleted i’m taking a screenshot of this shams because I want to see what they’re actually trading it for all right let me Okay so is this post still up the Hawks are trading the 13th pick in the draft to the Pelicans for the 23rd pick and an unprotected 2026 first which will be the most favorable of New Orleans and Milwaukee hold on did New Orleans just ear muffs kids new Orleans just traded away their next year’s first round pick unprotected to move up from 23-13 that might be the most reckless draft day trade I’ve seen in 5 years with absolutely no due respect who the hell does New Orleans think they are what is New Orleans doing trading away if Shams is if that again I am bas I am trusting Shams implicitly noah Singu whose name I’m mispronouncing uh is the 12th pick and now at 13 again I’m going to read this exactly the Atlanta Hawks are trading the number 13 pick of the draft to New Orleans for the number 23 pick okay 13 for 23 got it and an unprotected 2026 first which will be the most favorable of New Orleans and Milwaukee sources tell ESPN all right now listen even if this is to take my guy that I have been begging someone to take for 30 minutes Derek Queen this is one of the most reckless trades I can possibly imagine also of all the places I would be nervous about Derek Queen going New Orleans is high on the list now I have no idea who they’re taking here we’re going to find out in a minute but you cannot if you’re New Orleans trade away next year’s first round pick unprotected you could be terrible like I know you don’t want to think you can be terrible but you absolutely could be terrible you Zion is a risk every year deontay Murray will be coming off an Achilles and when do we when when do we expect Deontay Murray do we even And when I say coming off an Achilles like are we even sure DeJonte Murray will be coming off anything uh like when do we think we’re going to be seeing Deontay Murray maybe not next year he could he I mean he could miss the season you have Jordan Pool i How can you possibly trade away your unprotected first round pick next year atlanta great job this is the I credit where it’s due man that is a hell of a job by Atlanta you move back 10 spots and you get a lottery ticket for next year like who’s here’s a fun exercise who’s unprotected first round picks for next season are more valuable than New Orleans like who are the teams that we feel like are have a better chance to just bottom out than New Orleans utah for sure washington Charlotte that’s the list new Orleans won 21 games last year what are they thinking i’m maybe I shouldn’t be a stunned by this uh but I am I this is one of what a baffling baffling who who is hold on Pelicans GM hold the Atlanta Hawks oh My goodness is it Dumar’s hold on a second here is the So the Atlanta Hawks how about this the Atlanta Hawks and new general manager Anc Salah are finalizing deals to hire New Orleans Pelicans GM Brian Graham as the team’s senior vice president of basketball operations so hold on the Hawks hired away a Pelicans guy i was going to say if the Pelicans had just hired away a Hawks guy and then they just gave the Hawks this deal it was going to call for an investigation but this is Joe Dumar’s oh my god joe Dumar’s oh no this is Joe Dumar’s first big move this is going to be the new two phones meme i maybe I I don’t want to be overreacting and by the way the it was I it is Derek Queen and I like Queen i don’t I his fit next to Zion i’m not sure about it but I was advocating that the Pelicans could have taken Derek Queen with the seventh pick um so there’s nothing wrong with that but they might have just traded the number one pick of next year’s draft to move up from 23 to 13 how do you not get a protection on it and by the way here’s the other thing on that just to be totally clear and fair about what they traded it’s Milwaukee or New Orleans the best of those so it’s even if New Orleans like “No it’s not a problem cuz we’re going to be good we know we’re going to be good what if Milwaukee trades Giannis or he gets injured and they’re terrible then that pick goes i’m glad we stayed on through the lottery this is I could do an hour on this move zack Low just tweeted out a picture of the pelican in the hospital oh my goodness hold on i I have to I I We’re going to stay on a little bit longer currently having a conipion about what the Pelicans just did come join me uh okay so I we’re going to spend a few minutes congratulations to Derek Queen i actually think he’s going to be good i think that’s a fun pick i And the Spurs and this will this will be perfect we can while while we really just react to what the Pelicans did we’ll find out who the Spurs and the Thunder take at 14 and 15 and then we’ll be out of here and by the way the the Nets still have all their picks and the Nets haven’t moved up and the Nets right now are on track to draft five guys in the first round which seems like that’s probably not a sustainable thing but uh but whatever so I want this to be very clear new Orleans which won 21 games this year which has not had a resoundingly excellent season since Anthony Davis was there their closest thing to a successful season in the last seven years was two years ago when they won 49 49 games snuck in as the eight seed 49 games is not sneaking in that’s good and got absolutely lambasted in round one for them last year they took those 49 wins clearly they thought we we could be good and despite that they won 21 games okay Zion is obviously a huge question mark they also just traded for Jordan Pool who calling him a question mark I think is fair at the very least though what they had was their own first round pick next year which could be important because Dejonte Murray someone they in theory were relying on could miss most of the year if not all of the year with a torn Achilles they they also had the option to swap that pick with Milwaukee which and this is why swaps are interesting that was I think that’s the last piece of the Drew Holiday to Milwaukee trade and that you know if if Milwaukee trades Giannis or if something were to happen to Giannis maybe that ends up being a super valuable swap not likely but possible to give that up to move up tint and you can’t be like “We thought this was a once- in a generation player.” You could have taken this guy an hour ago you drafted fears which again I’m fine with that and I like Derek Queen but to trade away your own unprotected pick next year slash Milwaukey’s unprotected pick next year to move from 23 to 13 is insanity i would say that has a 30% chance 35% chance of being a top five pick and a 70% chance of being a top 10 pick that you just traded away i am flabbergasted by that i like these moves the Hawks have made i gotta give you know credit where it’s due and you know I I mean I’ve got to think that who was picking Sorry I had it up who was picking 12 i I can’t I mean maybe the Bulls turn the Bulls are maybe I know the Spurs i am certain the Spurs are like “Oh my god we were a pick away from being offered an unprotected Pelicans pick.” Oh like the everyone sitting around Atlanta’s draft position has to be like “How did we not get that phone call?” I am I’m stunned the Pelicans would do that and I mean that is that is a potentially instantly uh disqualifying move by Joe Dumars it’s just truly baffling so I would like to adjust I or I not adjust Paul i’m doing a a an extra or I’m adding something to our instant boost uh thanks to Boost Mobile the instant boost brought to me by Boost Mobile uh another team that got one of the biggest boosts this draft the Atlanta Hawks and their fans for how much more fun next year will now be because no matter how good mediocre or bad you are you have two teams you get to just root against next season in the Bucks and the Pelicans and just for one of them to be bad and all of a sudden that be how you get the kid out of BYU or somehow get the number one pick of the draft like what an in I thought we were going to have like the Lakers you know trade Austin Reefs move into the top 10 i thought the Pelican I’m sorry the Thunder who are picking right now might package himself to move up i thought there was a chance maybe that the Paul George in the third pick went somewhere we got none of that instead we end up with the New Orleans Pelicans making a 23-13 trade that I’ll simply never forget [Music]

Nick Wright cannot believe the New Orleans Pelicans trade to the Atlanta Hawks during the 2025 NBA Draft… and his reaction is priceless.

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