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Originally Posted by Antonin
And I think it's silly to have a player traded on draft night, but get drafted by the team that has just traded him. It's the biggest event of his young life; let him be photographed by his family and friends wearing the cap of the team that he's actually going to play for.
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It is silly, but the trades that are reported are not official until the league office processes them the first week of July.
I would have to look them to see which trades they were, but I can think of two examples where draft night trades were never approved by the league office because one of the teams pulled out of the deal after the draft because one of the players involved in each of the deals failed their physical.