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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 298155, member: 1423"] Holt is on the mark. Without any contract being signed, a casual promise to select a player (if available) in a specified draft slot is probably not legally enforceable. Phoenix, picking 13, is the team rumored to have made the overture to dion. But the suns still have a right to trade that slot to another team, which may not want to pick Dion, or they could 'trade up' (contract with an earlier-picking team to obtain its draft pick for compensation .. [unlikely]) and take him early or take someone else. Also, another team picking before Phoenix (1-12) could take Dion before the Suns get to select him. This will probably not happen... but still, the word guarantee is out of place in this context. [/QUOTE]