Pick protection

[HawkItus]

Protections on the 2019 first-round pick Atlanta will receive from Dallas in the Luka Doncic deal, per league sources: 1-to-5 protected in 2019; 1-to-5 in 2020; 1-to-3 in 2021; 1-to-3 in 2022; fully unprotected in 2023. Dallas obviously hopes it conveys next June

[bleachkit]

1 minute ago, HawkItus said:

Protections on the 2019 first-round pick Atlanta will receive from Dallas in the Luka Doncic deal, per league sources: 1-to-5 protected in 2019; 1-to-5 in 2020; 1-to-3 in 2021; 1-to-3 in 2022; fully unprotected in 2023. Dallas obviously hopes it conveys next June

We should have said no protection or no trade. They wanted Luka so bad, no way they going to say no.

[AHF]

Dallas probably hopes it conveys when they make the playoffs and hopes they get lucky enough in the lottery to keep their picks until then.  This could end up ugly.