Teams are beginning to do their due diligence on trade talks with the draft two weeks away.



The Brooklyn Nets are looking to move up into the teens, if possible, league sources told The Athletic. Brooklyn would prefer to maintain cap flexibility for the summer of 2019 in any trade. Spencer Dinwiddie, a finalist for the league’s Most Improved Player of the Year award four years removed from a career-threatening ACL injury and in the final year of his contract at a bargain rate ($1.656 million), is one of Brooklyn’s best trade chips.



The Denver Nuggets (14th overall), Washington Wizards (15th overall) and Milwaukee Bucks (17th overall) are teams in win-now mode that could dangle their picks as trade bait to the Nets and the rest of the league.



Milwaukee is ready to take the next step in the playoffs behind coach Mike Budenholzer, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton. One Nets player who may interest the Bucks is forward DeMarre Carroll, who...