The NBA Draft is less than a week away, and teams are beginning to finalize their draft boards.
距离NBA选秀已经不到一周了，各球队纷纷开始确定他们的选秀大名单。
Over the last few months, we have participated in mock drafts and profiled potential prospects the Cavaliers could select with the fifth overall pick. The options seem to be narrowing down, though their final decision is still five days away.
在过去的几个月，我们参与过模拟选秀，并分析了骑士在第五顺位可能的潜在人选。尽管他们距离做出最终决定还有5天，但选择范围似乎越来越小。
The league selected 29 prospects to participate in interviews leading up to the draft. During the first two days, a handful of players the Cavs are likely considering spoke.
临近选秀，联盟选了29个新秀参与了选秀面试。在前两天，有几位骑士正在考察的球员讲话了。
Here’s what we learned about these potential targets:
以下就是我们了解到的潜在处理方案。
Deni Avdija | SF/PF | Maccabi Tel-Aviv
德尼-阿夫迪亚 | SF/PF | 特拉维夫马卡比
Avdija publicly said he doesn’t have a preference regarding the team he goes to on draft night. He hopes the team that drafts him is going to “maximize my potential and I’ll be a major part of the team.”
阿夫迪亚曾公开表示，他对自己会在选秀夜当天要去的球队没有任何偏好。他一直希望，选中他的球队能“最大限度地发掘我的潜力，让我成为球队的重要组成。”
For a 19-year-old wing with international experience, that seems likely. He is expected to be the highest-drafted Israeli player in NBA history.
对于一个19岁就有着国际比赛经验的侧翼来说，这看起来似乎有戏。他有望成为NBA历史上被选中的以色列球员里顺位最高的那位。
During his time off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Avdija said he worked on making his shot more efficient and improving his footwork. His perimeter shooting is one of the main concerns evaluators have had. He also recognized how his mechanics changed from when he was 16 and knows that he will continue to develop throughout the first few years of his NBA career. He’s been working to become stronger and bigger.
阿夫迪亚透露，在新冠肺炎疫情导致停赛的那段时间里，他一直在努力提高自己的投篮效率和脚步。他的外线投篮一直是评论家最关心的问题之一。他还意识到他从16岁起练就的投篮机制要怎样改变，也知道在NBA职业生涯的前几年他还得继续提高（这部分的技术）。他一直在努力变得更加高大强壮。
“Doing everything I do just a little bit faster is gonna help me, for sure,” Avdija said. “I’m a guy who likes to improve.”
“把每件该做的事都做得快一点肯定对我有益，”阿夫迪亚说，“我是那种渴望进步的家伙。”
Avdija wasn’t open to sharing the teams he worked out for or interviewed with in this pre-draft process, wanting to keep the list private. In his workouts, though, he wanted to show his competitiveness and his commitment to improving himself and his game. He also wanted to demonstrate his personality to teams.
阿夫迪亚不愿意透露在预选秀时期曾为哪些球队进行过试训或者面试，他想保持名单的隐私。然而，在他的试训时，他想展示他的竞技水平以及提高自己和比赛的决心。他还打算向球队展示自己的个性。
“At the end of the day, I’m playing basketball and practicing. I’m doing the thing I love,” he said. “So I might as well go into the gym, smile, put on some music, work on my game and just love to improve. Smile and then be myself.”
“在那天结束的时候，我会打篮球和训练。我一直在做我所热爱的事情。”他说，“所以我可能还会去训练房，微笑着，再打开音乐，努力提高自己的表现，我就喜欢进步。微笑，然后做回自己。”
Obi Toppin | PF | Dayton
奥比-托平 | PF | 代顿大学
One of the concerns about Toppin’s game is his defense, but he tried to put that idea to bed in his pre-draft interview. Toppin has been working out at a gym in South Jersey called Peak Skills Basketball. Throughout the pandemic, Toppin said a number of current NBA players — like Kevin Knox and others — also practiced at the gym. He has taken advantage of this time to get back in the gym and the weight room to continue preparing for the draft and his rookie season.
对托平比赛的一大忧虑就是他的防守，不过他在选秀前的采访中试图把这个想法付诸于实践中。托平一直在南泽西的一家名为Peak skill Basketball的训练房锻炼。托平说，在整个新冠大流行期间，像凯文-诺克斯和其他一些现役的NBA球员也在训练馆进行训练。他充分利用了这段时间回归体育馆和健身房，继续为选秀和新秀赛季做着准备。
“Having those different styles of play playing against those guys, it’s been helping me a lot, especially on defense — like having to play some bigs, having to play some guards,” Toppin said. “Like, guarding a lot of the guards helped me a lot because of how fast they are and how shifty they are. I have to be able to keep up. And if not, I’ll be exposed. So I’ve been working on it a lot. I feel like I’m going to prove a lot of people (wrong) who feel that I can’t play defense. I’m gonna prove a lot of people wrong.”
“与这些家伙交手的时候，拥有多样化的打法对我来说有很大的帮助，尤其是在防守上——比如必须与内线和后卫球员交手”托平说，“比如，长时间防守后卫给我带来了很大的帮助，因为他们的速度很快，还非常的狡猾。我必须能跟上他们才行，否则，我就会被揪着打。所以我在这方面下了不少功夫。我觉得我要证明给那些认为我不能防守的人(这是个错误)。我要向很多人证明他们是错的。”
Toppin has interviewed with the Cavs, Knicks and Warriors and worked out for the Cavs, Timberwolves, Knicks and Hornets. He said both his virtual interview and his in-person workout with Cleveland “went really well.”
托平面试过骑士、尼克斯和勇士，还为骑士、森林狼、尼克斯和黄蜂试训过。他说，他的线上面试及他在克利夫兰的现场试训都“非常顺利”。
“I feel like I did a lot of things to show them that I can spread the floor, I can work inside, I can guard different positions,” he said this week. “I was able to show a lot of different things and show my athleticism, show I can shoot the ball. I was able to show those things to help them in their decision.”
“我觉得我做了很多事情来向他们证明我可以拉开空间，可以在内线打球，还可以防守不同的位置，”他在本周说，“我可以展现我许多不同的技术，可以展现我的运动天赋，还可以向他们展示我可以投篮。我所能展示的这一切有助于他们做出决定。”
The local connection is prominent, too, as Toppin’s collegiate ties to Dayton and its fan base are appealing. But wherever Toppin lands on draft night, he said he wants to be somewhere they will help him continue to improve as a player.
而当地的联系支持也很重要，因为托平与代顿大学以及它的粉丝群体之间的联系非常诱人。但是不管托平在选秀夜那天会花落谁家，他说他想去一个能帮助他继续提高球员能力的地方。
“A team that’s gonna work on me and develops me to be a great player is where I want to go,” Toppin said. “The team that’s gonna help me prepare the most to be great and win a lot of games is where I want to go.”
“我想去一支愿意栽培我，把我培养成一名优秀球员的球队。”托平说，“我想去的是一支能帮助我打下扎实的基础、赢得很多比赛的球队。”
Isaac Okoro | SG/SF | Auburn
艾萨克-奥科罗 | SG/SF |奥本大学
Okoro is known for his defensive skills as a wing, but there are questions surrounding his outside shot that he hoped to answer during his workouts. Okoro said he worked out for the Cavs along with the Timberwolves and Warriors.
奥科罗以他在侧翼的防守技术而闻名；但关于他外线投篮所存在的问题，则是他希望在试训中能予以回应的。奥科罗说，他已试训过骑士，在场的还包括森林狼、勇士。
“I feel like during all my workouts I showed all the teams my offensive abilities,” Okoro said. “I feel like they came in thinking my offense was one of my weaknesses, but they left knowing that it was one of my strengths. So I felt like I showed them my shooting ability, my playmaking ability and my slashing ability was good.”
“我觉得在所有试训的过程中，我已经向所有的球队展现过我的进攻能力，”奥科罗说，“我感觉在来的时候，他们认为我的进攻会是弱点之一，但当他们离开的时候，却知道这反而是我的一大强项。所以。我我感觉我向他们展现了我的投射能力、组织进攻和突破能力都有多么的出色。”
His focus during this offseason has been learning to make his jump shot more fluid and how to shoot the ball high enough to get the right arc on the ball. He rated his jumper during the college season at a C-plus, but with his daily work of putting up shots, he now feels like that rating is at a B-plus or A.
在休赛期，他专注于学习如何让他的跳投更加流畅，以及如何能把投篮的弧度调高至正确的外线投篮标准上。他给自己大学的跳投评分只打了C +，但由于他日复一日地努力练习投篮，现在他觉得自己的评分可以达到b +或a了。
Okoro said he concentrated on his ballhandling, shooting and slides on defense. He returned to Auburn’s campus and played pickup games with the team, either five-on-five or one-on-one, to continue honing his craft.
奥科罗说，他专注于练习控球、投篮和防守端的侧滑步。他重返了奥本大学，和球队一起打过野球，无论是五对五还是一对一，以此来继续打磨自己的技术。
He feels he can contribute offensively by attacking the rim, drawing contact, getting to the free-throw line, driving and finding his open teammates. Since the NBA sees a lot of switching, Okoro believes he can switch and guard anyone one through five in the league. Though he sees defense as his strong suit, he described himself as trying to be an all-around player, willing to contribute on offense and defense.
他觉得他可以通过袭击篮筐，制造对抗，来走上罚球线；以及突破后找到空位的队友来为球队的进攻做出贡献。因为NBA存在很多换防，因此奥科罗相信他可以换防到联盟中的任何人。虽然他认为防守是他的强项，但他表示，自己正在努力成为一个全面的球员，愿意在进攻和防守上同时做出贡献。
“From what you saw at Auburn, I just brought a winning culture and I just gave everything I had on the court and also just my high character,” Okoro said. “There’s nothing that I do that’s bad as I’m locked in. I’m just there to play basketball and win games.”
“一如你们在奥本所看到的那样，我带来了胜利的文化；我在球场上奉献一切，还包括我高尚的品格，”奥科罗说，“我从不做什么坏事，一直约束着。我只是去那里打球并赢得比赛而已。”
Could the Cavs trade the fifth pick?
骑士有可能交易他们的第五顺位吗？
When the Cavs were first awarded the fifth pick, GM Koby Altman said the team was pleased.
当骑士第一次得到5号签的时候，球队经理科比-奥尔特曼表示他们球队很满意。
“We’re still going to acquire the best talent,” Altman said recently. “We like where we are at 5. We’re going to get a really good player that’s a fit, a cultural fit and a talent.”
“我们仍将继续引入天赋最好的球员。”在最近，奥尔特曼说，“我们喜欢现在的5号签的位置。我们会得到一个真正适合我们的优秀球员，不论是文化还是天赋。”
But there’s another option we haven’t explored much yet: trading the fifth pick.
但，这里还有一个选项，只是我们尚未有过太多的探索:交易这个5号签。
It seems counterintuitive to talk about trading the fifth pick with Altman and company planning to select the best player available. But if the right offer comes along, it could prove to be a good option for Cleveland to get the pieces needed to improve its roster.
当和奥特曼谈起交易5号签，而球队则计划选走名单上最好的那位球员时，这听起来似乎有些反直觉。但如果有合适的报价，那么这可能会是一个很好的选择，骑士可以得到所需的拼图，来改善他们的阵容。
Trading the fifth pick could go two different ways. First, they could trade down in the draft to a lower spot in the first round and add another asset. Not only could they add assets in the process, but there isn’t much separation between these prospects in the second tier. They could still land a solid player, fill a positional need and add future assets.
交易5号签可能存在两种不同的方式。首先，他们可以向下交易，以增加新的资产。在这个过程中他们不仅可以增加资产，而且在第二档的这些新人里，他们之间并没有明显的档次之分。他们仍然可以得到一个可靠的球员来填补位置上的需求，同时还可以囤一些未来的资产。
Are there teams looking to move up in the lottery? Could the Knicks or Suns want to move up a few spots to secure a certain player? What about the Wizards, who may want to secure Onyeka Okongwu and worry he won’t be on the board at No. 9?
那是否存在着希望提高乐透顺位的球队呢?尼克斯或者太阳会不会为了得到某位球员而向上交易呢?那么奇才怎么样，他们可能想要得到奥涅卡-奥孔古，却又担心他落不到9号签的位置。
Other players who could come into the picture are Tyrese Haliburton, Patrick Williams, Devin Vassell or potentially someone like Aaron Nesmith, Saddiq Bey or R.J. Hampton depending on who falls where. Hampton said earlier this week that he worked out for the Cavs and with the Magic, Wizards, Celtics, Nuggets, Pistons and Nets. If Cleveland could add a lower lottery pick that fills more of a positional need, along with an extra asset or two for the future, it could be the Cavs’ best option to see immediate success on the court. If not, the Cavs will have to rely on internal growth to lift them closer to playoff contention or a larger trade to acquire win-now players.
其他可能会纳入讨论的球员有泰雷斯-哈利伯顿、帕特里克-威廉姆斯、德文-瓦塞尔，或者是像阿隆-内史密斯、萨迪克-贝或RJ-汉普顿这些潜在的球员，不过这得取决于他们会落在哪里。汉普顿在本周的早些时候表示，他曾为骑士、魔术、奇才、凯尔特人、掘金、活塞和网进行试训。如果骑士能增加一个乐透末来填补更多的位置需求，并得到一两个未来的附加资产的话，那么这可能是骑士能够在明面上看到的最佳选择。如果不能，那么骑士将不得不依靠内部的成长来提高他们争夺季后赛的竞争力，亦或者整个更大的交易来得到几位win-now的球员。
The other option could be to trade out of the draft completely, acquiring a win-now player instead of a rookie. One situation our John Hollinger mentioned in his latest mock draft was the Cavs trading Larry Nance Jr. for Boston’s pick at No. 14, Enes Kanter and Vincent Poirier. The Celtics would get Nance on a declining salary over the next three seasons, a big who can play both frontcourt positions. There are other potential trades circulating out there involving the Celtics and their three first-round picks.
而另一种选择，则是完全交易走选秀权，以换取一个win-now的球员而不是一个新秀。我们的约翰-霍林格在他最近的模拟选秀中，提到过一种情况，就是骑士用小拉里-南斯换来凯尔特人的14号签——埃内斯-坎特和文森特-波里尔。在接下来的三个赛季里，凯尔特人可以以一份递减的合同得到南斯，这个大个子可以同时胜任前场的两个位置。而围绕着凯尔特人以及他们的三个首轮选秀权的其他潜在交易一直在不断流传着。
In the next few days, the rumors will be flying and the mock drafts will be soaring off the pages. Before you know it, draft night will be here — followed by free agency two days later — and a handful of questions will finally have answers.
The NBA Draft is less than a week away, and teams are beginning to finalize their draft boards.
距离NBA选秀已经不到一周了，各球队纷纷开始确定他们的选秀大名单。
Over the last few months, we have participated in mock drafts and profiled potential prospects the Cavaliers could select with the fifth overall pick. The options seem to be narrowing down, though their final decision is still five days away.
在过去的几个月，我们参与过模拟选秀，并分析了骑士在第五顺位可能的潜在人选。尽管他们距离做出最终决定还有5天，但选择范围似乎越来越小。
The league selected 29 prospects to participate in interviews leading up to the draft. During the first two days, a handful of players the Cavs are likely considering spoke.
临近选秀，联盟选了29个新秀参与了选秀面试。在前两天，有几位骑士正在考察的球员讲话了。
Here’s what we learned about these potential targets:
以下就是我们了解到的潜在处理方案。
Deni Avdija | SF/PF | Maccabi Tel-Aviv
德尼-阿夫迪亚 | SF/PF | 特拉维夫马卡比
Avdija publicly said he doesn’t have a preference regarding the team he goes to on draft night. He hopes the team that drafts him is going to “maximize my potential and I’ll be a major part of the team.”
阿夫迪亚曾公开表示，他对自己会在选秀夜当天要去的球队没有任何偏好。他一直希望，选中他的球队能“最大限度地发掘我的潜力，让我成为球队的重要组成。”
For a 19-year-old wing with international experience, that seems likely. He is expected to be the highest-drafted Israeli player in NBA history.
对于一个19岁就有着国际比赛经验的侧翼来说，这看起来似乎有戏。他有望成为NBA历史上被选中的以色列球员里顺位最高的那位。
During his time off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Avdija said he worked on making his shot more efficient and improving his footwork. His perimeter shooting is one of the main concerns evaluators have had. He also recognized how his mechanics changed from when he was 16 and knows that he will continue to develop throughout the first few years of his NBA career. He’s been working to become stronger and bigger.
阿夫迪亚透露，在新冠肺炎疫情导致停赛的那段时间里，他一直在努力提高自己的投篮效率和脚步。他的外线投篮一直是评论家最关心的问题之一。他还意识到他从16岁起练就的投篮机制要怎样改变，也知道在NBA职业生涯的前几年他还得继续提高（这部分的技术）。他一直在努力变得更加高大强壮。
“Doing everything I do just a little bit faster is gonna help me, for sure,” Avdija said. “I’m a guy who likes to improve.”
“把每件该做的事都做得快一点肯定对我有益，”阿夫迪亚说，“我是那种渴望进步的家伙。”
Avdija wasn’t open to sharing the teams he worked out for or interviewed with in this pre-draft process, wanting to keep the list private. In his workouts, though, he wanted to show his competitiveness and his commitment to improving himself and his game. He also wanted to demonstrate his personality to teams.
阿夫迪亚不愿意透露在预选秀时期曾为哪些球队进行过试训或者面试，他想保持名单的隐私。然而，在他的试训时，他想展示他的竞技水平以及提高自己和比赛的决心。他还打算向球队展示自己的个性。
“At the end of the day, I’m playing basketball and practicing. I’m doing the thing I love,” he said. “So I might as well go into the gym, smile, put on some music, work on my game and just love to improve. Smile and then be myself.”
“在那天结束的时候，我会打篮球和训练。我一直在做我所热爱的事情。”他说，“所以我可能还会去训练房，微笑着，再打开音乐，努力提高自己的表现，我就喜欢进步。微笑，然后做回自己。”
Obi Toppin | PF | Dayton
奥比-托平 | PF | 代顿大学
One of the concerns about Toppin’s game is his defense, but he tried to put that idea to bed in his pre-draft interview. Toppin has been working out at a gym in South Jersey called Peak Skills Basketball. Throughout the pandemic, Toppin said a number of current NBA players — like Kevin Knox and others — also practiced at the gym. He has taken advantage of this time to get back in the gym and the weight room to continue preparing for the draft and his rookie season.
对托平比赛的一大忧虑就是他的防守，不过他在选秀前的采访中试图把这个想法付诸于实践中。托平一直在南泽西的一家名为Peak skill Basketball的训练房锻炼。托平说，在整个新冠大流行期间，像凯文-诺克斯和其他一些现役的NBA球员也在训练馆进行训练。他充分利用了这段时间回归体育馆和健身房，继续为选秀和新秀赛季做着准备。
“Having those different styles of play playing against those guys, it’s been helping me a lot, especially on defense — like having to play some bigs, having to play some guards,” Toppin said. “Like, guarding a lot of the guards helped me a lot because of how fast they are and how shifty they are. I have to be able to keep up. And if not, I’ll be exposed. So I’ve been working on it a lot. I feel like I’m going to prove a lot of people (wrong) who feel that I can’t play defense. I’m gonna prove a lot of people wrong.”
“与这些家伙交手的时候，拥有多样化的打法对我来说有很大的帮助，尤其是在防守上——比如必须与内线和后卫球员交手”托平说，“比如，长时间防守后卫给我带来了很大的帮助，因为他们的速度很快，还非常的狡猾。我必须能跟上他们才行，否则，我就会被揪着打。所以我在这方面下了不少功夫。我觉得我要证明给那些认为我不能防守的人(这是个错误)。我要向很多人证明他们是错的。”
Toppin has interviewed with the Cavs, Knicks and Warriors and worked out for the Cavs, Timberwolves, Knicks and Hornets. He said both his virtual interview and his in-person workout with Cleveland “went really well.”
托平面试过骑士、尼克斯和勇士，还为骑士、森林狼、尼克斯和黄蜂试训过。他说，他的线上面试及他在克利夫兰的现场试训都“非常顺利”。
“I feel like I did a lot of things to show them that I can spread the floor, I can work inside, I can guard different positions,” he said this week. “I was able to show a lot of different things and show my athleticism, show I can shoot the ball. I was able to show those things to help them in their decision.”
“我觉得我做了很多事情来向他们证明我可以拉开空间，可以在内线打球，还可以防守不同的位置，”他在本周说，“我可以展现我许多不同的技术，可以展现我的运动天赋，还可以向他们展示我可以投篮。我所能展示的这一切有助于他们做出决定。”
The local connection is prominent, too, as Toppin’s collegiate ties to Dayton and its fan base are appealing. But wherever Toppin lands on draft night, he said he wants to be somewhere they will help him continue to improve as a player.
而当地的联系支持也很重要，因为托平与代顿大学以及它的粉丝群体之间的联系非常诱人。但是不管托平在选秀夜那天会花落谁家，他说他想去一个能帮助他继续提高球员能力的地方。
“A team that’s gonna work on me and develops me to be a great player is where I want to go,” Toppin said. “The team that’s gonna help me prepare the most to be great and win a lot of games is where I want to go.”
“我想去一支愿意栽培我，把我培养成一名优秀球员的球队。”托平说，“我想去的是一支能帮助我打下扎实的基础、赢得很多比赛的球队。”
Isaac Okoro | SG/SF | Auburn
艾萨克-奥科罗 | SG/SF |奥本大学
Okoro is known for his defensive skills as a wing, but there are questions surrounding his outside shot that he hoped to answer during his workouts. Okoro said he worked out for the Cavs along with the Timberwolves and Warriors.
奥科罗以他在侧翼的防守技术而闻名；但关于他外线投篮所存在的问题，则是他希望在试训中能予以回应的。奥科罗说，他已试训过骑士，在场的还包括森林狼、勇士。
“I feel like during all my workouts I showed all the teams my offensive abilities,” Okoro said. “I feel like they came in thinking my offense was one of my weaknesses, but they left knowing that it was one of my strengths. So I felt like I showed them my shooting ability, my playmaking ability and my slashing ability was good.”
“我觉得在所有试训的过程中，我已经向所有的球队展现过我的进攻能力，”奥科罗说，“我感觉在来的时候，他们认为我的进攻会是弱点之一，但当他们离开的时候，却知道这反而是我的一大强项。所以。我我感觉我向他们展现了我的投射能力、组织进攻和突破能力都有多么的出色。”
His focus during this offseason has been learning to make his jump shot more fluid and how to shoot the ball high enough to get the right arc on the ball. He rated his jumper during the college season at a C-plus, but with his daily work of putting up shots, he now feels like that rating is at a B-plus or A.
在休赛期，他专注于学习如何让他的跳投更加流畅，以及如何能把投篮的弧度调高至正确的外线投篮标准上。他给自己大学的跳投评分只打了C +，但由于他日复一日地努力练习投篮，现在他觉得自己的评分可以达到b +或a了。
Okoro said he concentrated on his ballhandling, shooting and slides on defense. He returned to Auburn’s campus and played pickup games with the team, either five-on-five or one-on-one, to continue honing his craft.
奥科罗说，他专注于练习控球、投篮和防守端的侧滑步。他重返了奥本大学，和球队一起打过野球，无论是五对五还是一对一，以此来继续打磨自己的技术。
He feels he can contribute offensively by attacking the rim, drawing contact, getting to the free-throw line, driving and finding his open teammates. Since the NBA sees a lot of switching, Okoro believes he can switch and guard anyone one through five in the league. Though he sees defense as his strong suit, he described himself as trying to be an all-around player, willing to contribute on offense and defense.
他觉得他可以通过袭击篮筐，制造对抗，来走上罚球线；以及突破后找到空位的队友来为球队的进攻做出贡献。因为NBA存在很多换防，因此奥科罗相信他可以换防到联盟中的任何人。虽然他认为防守是他的强项，但他表示，自己正在努力成为一个全面的球员，愿意在进攻和防守上同时做出贡献。
“From what you saw at Auburn, I just brought a winning culture and I just gave everything I had on the court and also just my high character,” Okoro said. “There’s nothing that I do that’s bad as I’m locked in. I’m just there to play basketball and win games.”
“一如你们在奥本所看到的那样，我带来了胜利的文化；我在球场上奉献一切，还包括我高尚的品格，”奥科罗说，“我从不做什么坏事，一直约束着。我只是去那里打球并赢得比赛而已。”
Could the Cavs trade the fifth pick?
骑士有可能交易他们的第五顺位吗？
When the Cavs were first awarded the fifth pick, GM Koby Altman said the team was pleased.
当骑士第一次得到5号签的时候，球队经理科比-奥尔特曼表示他们球队很满意。
“We’re still going to acquire the best talent,” Altman said recently. “We like where we are at 5. We’re going to get a really good player that’s a fit, a cultural fit and a talent.”
“我们仍将继续引入天赋最好的球员。”在最近，奥尔特曼说，“我们喜欢现在的5号签的位置。我们会得到一个真正适合我们的优秀球员，不论是文化还是天赋。”
But there’s another option we haven’t explored much yet: trading the fifth pick.
但，这里还有一个选项，只是我们尚未有过太多的探索:交易这个5号签。
It seems counterintuitive to talk about trading the fifth pick with Altman and company planning to select the best player available. But if the right offer comes along, it could prove to be a good option for Cleveland to get the pieces needed to improve its roster.
当和奥特曼谈起交易5号签，而球队则计划选走名单上最好的那位球员时，这听起来似乎有些反直觉。但如果有合适的报价，那么这可能会是一个很好的选择，骑士可以得到所需的拼图，来改善他们的阵容。
Trading the fifth pick could go two different ways. First, they could trade down in the draft to a lower spot in the first round and add another asset. Not only could they add assets in the process, but there isn’t much separation between these prospects in the second tier. They could still land a solid player, fill a positional need and add future assets.
交易5号签可能存在两种不同的方式。首先，他们可以向下交易，以增加新的资产。在这个过程中他们不仅可以增加资产，而且在第二档的这些新人里，他们之间并没有明显的档次之分。他们仍然可以得到一个可靠的球员来填补位置上的需求，同时还可以囤一些未来的资产。
Are there teams looking to move up in the lottery? Could the Knicks or Suns want to move up a few spots to secure a certain player? What about the Wizards, who may want to secure Onyeka Okongwu and worry he won’t be on the board at No. 9?
那是否存在着希望提高乐透顺位的球队呢?尼克斯或者太阳会不会为了得到某位球员而向上交易呢?那么奇才怎么样，他们可能想要得到奥涅卡-奥孔古，却又担心他落不到9号签的位置。
Other players who could come into the picture are Tyrese Haliburton, Patrick Williams, Devin Vassell or potentially someone like Aaron Nesmith, Saddiq Bey or R.J. Hampton depending on who falls where. Hampton said earlier this week that he worked out for the Cavs and with the Magic, Wizards, Celtics, Nuggets, Pistons and Nets. If Cleveland could add a lower lottery pick that fills more of a positional need, along with an extra asset or two for the future, it could be the Cavs’ best option to see immediate success on the court. If not, the Cavs will have to rely on internal growth to lift them closer to playoff contention or a larger trade to acquire win-now players.
其他可能会纳入讨论的球员有泰雷斯-哈利伯顿、帕特里克-威廉姆斯、德文-瓦塞尔，或者是像阿隆-内史密斯、萨迪克-贝或RJ-汉普顿这些潜在的球员，不过这得取决于他们会落在哪里。汉普顿在本周的早些时候表示，他曾为骑士、魔术、奇才、凯尔特人、掘金、活塞和网进行试训。如果骑士能增加一个乐透末来填补更多的位置需求，并得到一两个未来的附加资产的话，那么这可能是骑士能够在明面上看到的最佳选择。如果不能，那么骑士将不得不依靠内部的成长来提高他们争夺季后赛的竞争力，亦或者整个更大的交易来得到几位win-now的球员。
The other option could be to trade out of the draft completely, acquiring a win-now player instead of a rookie. One situation our John Hollinger mentioned in his latest mock draft was the Cavs trading Larry Nance Jr. for Boston’s pick at No. 14, Enes Kanter and Vincent Poirier. The Celtics would get Nance on a declining salary over the next three seasons, a big who can play both frontcourt positions. There are other potential trades circulating out there involving the Celtics and their three first-round picks.
而另一种选择，则是完全交易走选秀权，以换取一个win-now的球员而不是一个新秀。我们的约翰-霍林格在他最近的模拟选秀中，提到过一种情况，就是骑士用小拉里-南斯换来凯尔特人的14号签——埃内斯-坎特和文森特-波里尔。在接下来的三个赛季里，凯尔特人可以以一份递减的合同得到南斯，这个大个子可以同时胜任前场的两个位置。而围绕着凯尔特人以及他们的三个首轮选秀权的其他潜在交易一直在不断流传着。
In the next few days, the rumors will be flying and the mock drafts will be soaring off the pages. Before you know it, draft night will be here — followed by free agency two days later — and a handful of questions will finally have answers.
