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The Celtics acquired an important first-round pick in the Kendrick Perkins trade with Oklahoma City. The Thunder acquired the pick from the Clippers for the rights to Eric Bledsoe. But it’s not as easy as the Celtics getting a potential lottery pick next season.
The pick is top 10-protected for the next four drafts, meaning the Clippers keep it if it is in the top 10. If it is, and the Clippers use it, then the Celtics get a first-round pick the following season.
If only it were that simple.
Former Celtic Sam Cassell comes into play because of a 2005 trade that sent him and a 2012 first-round pick from Minnesota to the Clippers for Lionel Chalmers and Marko Jaric. Now, if the Clippers finish out of the top 10 and are forced to give their pick to the Celtics, the ...
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