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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That is a very interesting wrinkle. Francis knew other GMs were gunshy about trading assets before the draft to protect their own players. But they have no prior experience of trading assets to get an expansion team to poach other teams' players for them.
If you want to fool people twice, it certainly helps to have a different grift the second time.
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If there's actually no pre-arranged "we give you this so you pick this guy instead of that guy" though, then Francis has lost the opportunity to capitalize on wanting a player, even if to sell to another team, that is not the one that the team he's picking from perceives as the one most valuable.