I thought Houston was out of its mind offering four first round picks. You cannot trade first round consecutive picks so the picks would be in a year, three years, five years and seven years out. But when thinking about it, Houston will be a very good team 3 to 5 years out so those first round picks will among the last three or four picks so basically a second round pick so not that valuable at all, at least the first two, maybe the third first rounder as well. The later first round draft picks can become extremely valuable because will have mortgaged its future and will have to rebuild at some point and should be terrible for some time. That is why they had to offer so many picks. It sounds crazy, but I think I get the rationale. The Celtics built their team by trading Garnett and Pierce to the Nets for far in the future first round picks and the Nets became terrible when those picks came into fruition and help get the Celtics some very young talented players.
Meanwhile, Houston has a window to win so they are going for it and going all in.
I still think this is crazy for Houston because Butler is a free agent after the season and can sign with another team.
Would you accept that trade if you were Minnesota?