Oklahoma City Thunder updated draft picks after 2024 NBA Trade Deadline

The Oklahoma City Thunder are unable to resist: every year, either the NBA Trade Deadline or the summer, they end up entering the trade market and leaving with more draft money than they started with. They’ll probably start cashing those chips in eventually, but for the time being they’re just building up a sizable asset portfolio.

The Thunder have used a number of methods to compile those selections. They have traded back in the draft, taken on terrible money, and flipped respectable veterans. They tried something different at the trade deadline this year: they gave away a first-round pick in return for a future unprotected pick swap. Presti enjoys striking high-reward deals of this nature, and It has only enhanced the Thunder’s draft collection’s positive aspects.

What currently makes up the Thunder’s draft picks, now that the 2024 NBA Trade Deadline has passed? Starting with the

massive pile of first-round selections this team is expected to receive, let’s examine

all three categories of picks and go over each in detail.

Thunder future first-round draft picks

– 2024 first-round pick (Houston, protected 1-4)*
– 2024 first-round pick (Utah, protected 1-10)*
– 2025 first-round pick (OKC)
– 2025 first-round pick (Miami, protected 1-4)
– 2025 first-round pick (Philadelphia, protected 1-6)
– 2026 first-round pick (OKC)#
– 2026 first-round pick (LA Clippers or Houston)#
– 2027 first-round pick (OKC)
– 2027 first-round pick (Denver, protected 1-5)
– 2028 first-round pick (OKC)
– 2029 first-round pick (OKC)
– 2029 first-round pick (Denver, protected 1-5)
– 2030 first-round pick (OKC)

* The Thunder will give the second-least favorable first-round pick to Dallas and the least favorable to Houston, Utah, the LA Clippers, and Oklahoma City. They keep the two most advantageous ones, which are most likely Utah and Houston.

The Houston Rockets (protected 1-4) and the Los Angeles Clippers (2026 first) will remain with the Thunder, while Philadelphia will receive the least favorable 2026 first.

Thunder future first-round pick swaps

– 2025 swap with either Houston (1-10 protected) or LA Clippers
– 2027 swap with LA Clippers
– 2028 swap with Dallas

Thunder future second-round draft picks

– 2025 second-round pick (more favorable of Boston or Memphis)
– 2025 second-round pick (Atlanta, protected 41-59)
– 2026 second-round pick (most favorable of OKC, DAL, PHI)
– 2026 second-round pick (Golden State)
– 2027 second-round pick (OKC)
– 2027 second-round picks (2 most favorable of Houston, Indiana or Miami)
– 2027 second-round pick (Minnesota)
– 2028 second-round pick (OKC)
– 2028 second-round pick (Milwaukee)
– 2028 second-round pick (Utah)
– 2029 second-round pick (OKC)
– 2029 second-round pick (Atlanta)
– 2029 second-round pick (Boston)
– 2029 second-round pick (Houston)
– 2029 second-round pick (Miami)
– 2029 second-round pick (Phoenix)
– 2030 second-round pick (OKC)
– 2030 second-round pick (Houston)
– 2030 second-round pick (Miami)

Thunder outgoing picks

– 2024 first-round pick (Dallas or Indiana)
– 2024 second-round pick (Memphis)
– 2025 second-round pick (Memphis or Houston)

Oklahoma City Thunder updated draft picks

The Thunder have an absurdly enormous stash of draft selections at their disposal. The pick exchanges with the LA Clippers in 2027, when Kawhi Leonard will be 35 years old, and maybe without Paul George and James Harden, and with Dallas in 2028, when Luka Doncic might not be there, are particularly noteworthy. In both years, the Thunder project to be in the upper half of the standings.

It will be interesting to see how Sam Presti handles these picks going ahead. With all of his picks available, would teams compel him to pay more than he deserves? Will he push them in for a bigger swing, or will he keep hoarding them and adding depth through the draft? Time will tell, but given how good Thunder is, As things stand today, the future is arrived, and this summer may mark the beginning of a new way of thinking.