I sat down with Hawks general manager Danny Ferry for a pre-NBA Draft interview last week. Much of our talk has been and will be used in draft preview stories. However, over the next three days leading up to the draft, I will publish a question and answer from the interview that will not appear in a specfic preview story.

With nine teams not currently holding a first-round pick, I asked Ferry if that made this draft unusual. He said no. I asked another question on the subject as a followup:

Q. Are there more possibilities of trades because there are nine teams without a first-round pick?

A. It all depends on who is there (on draft night). Those types of things happen as the night wears on. There are absolutely teams calling around to try to get in or try to move up. At this point, teams want to know who is there when they are picking and make those decisions then. Those types of things tend not to happen until (draft) night.

So, sounds like we shouldn’t look for a Hawks trade until the draft begins.

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