Sentence examples for protected pick from inspiring English sources

As part of the deal, the Sixers also traded the rights to forward Randy Holcomb, and a future first-round protected pick and cash, to Atlanta.

Whether it's the Warriors (losers of 11 of their last 13) looking like a team trying to secure a top-seven protected pick, or Portland purging its head coach and half the roster at the trade deadline, talk of tanking has been inescapable.

With Phoenix's victory Thursday over Houston, the Lakers clinched the NBA's second-worst record and a 55.8% chance at keeping their top-three protected pick on lottery night.

They currently own the NBA's fourth-worst record and are on pace to keep the top-five protected pick they owe Philadelphia via Phoenix, though nothing is set in stone until the May 19 lottery.

Those who followed planted the fields in cotton, which they then protected, picked, packed and shipped — from "sunup to sundown" every day for the rest of their lives.

Howard Dean, a medical doctor, said today that he was asking the federal government to take steps to make anthrax vaccine available to emergency personnel, so they can be protected when picking up suspicious packages.

As it stands, Golden State's medical staff will get quite a workout keeping Bogut and Stephen Curry's ankles healthy and the Warriors again look like a lottery team a season after clearly tanking to protect a pick they would have lost if they had selected anywhere out of the top seven in the draft.

This was a point of contention because the Mets were originally supposed to have the 10th pick in the draft, the final pick protected from compensation, but were bumped to 11th when the Pittsburgh Pirates were unable to sign their first-round selection last year.

Instead, the team sent him packing to Philadelphia, along with a 2018 protected first-round pick and the option to swap 2016 and 2017 first-rounders for two second-round draft choices whose names I can't even pronounce.

Those being protected do not pick and choose.

Jazz spokesman Jonathan Rinehart said Utah sent him along with a future protected second-round pick to the Bulls for a trade exception.