re: Frank Jackson Highlights: This is How We Do It

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The trade can't be "official" right away so the team who initially had the traded pick, picks for the team they traded with.

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I was thinking about this last night noticing all the trading going on.
So a trade is agreed upon between the two teams, and isn't officially approved until after the draft or whenever. So the Hornets make the pick, which I would assume we said "take this guy", and then vice versa. No big deal, seems simple.

What happens if for whatever reason the trade isnt' approved? has that ever happened? Think back to us trading for Jrue. What if they had actually discovered in the physical his injury issues and the trade didnt' go through? We're stuck with a pick we didn't even make?