Tier 1
Primary / authoritative
Official NBA transaction announcements, official team releases, league documents and governing rule language when mechanics matter.
How it is used: Preferred evidence for creating or confirming a right.
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Trust the path, not just the answer
Future NBA draft-pick rights are not a simple owner column. One original pick can be subject to transfers, protections, swaps, ranked pools and fallback obligations. Who Gets the Pick? keeps evidence, structured interpretation, verification provenance and public admission separate so uncertainty is visible instead of hidden.
Current public release
The 2027 release uses an independently structured factual ledger built from public transaction evidence and reconciliation research. The published batch was reviewed by GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) and is explicitly labeled AI verified. AI verification is not represented as human review.
Core principles
A pick is identified by draft year, round and original team. Trades add or transfer rights; they do not rewrite that original-pick identity.
The site avoids saying a team “owns” a pick when it holds only a swap, protected claim, ranked selection or other conditional right.
If evidence is incomplete, sources conflict or the model cannot safely express a term, the record stays unpublished or explicitly disputed instead of being simplified into a confident answer.
Evidence
Authority and permission are separate questions. A source can be strong evidence without being a licensed production data feed. The site stores its own concise structured facts and provenance rather than mirroring source prose or cloning third-party databases.
Official NBA transaction announcements, official team releases, league documents and governing rule language when mechanics matter.
How it is used: Preferred evidence for creating or confirming a right.
Independent future-pick ledgers and established transaction databases used to cross-check current state and complicated chains.
How it is used: Reconciliation evidence. It is not a runtime production feed.
Reputable beat reporting, major sports publications and specialist reporting that helps reconstruct or explain a transaction.
How it is used: Supporting evidence, especially when an official release omits an exact term.
Forums, fan blogs, social posts and community discussion.
How it is used: Lead generation only. Never the sole support for a verified right.
Verification
A real right normally needs primary/authoritative transaction evidence plus current-chain reconciliation when the terms or later transfers are complex. The canonical record states who or what reviewed it. A model may approve a right only through the distinct AI_VERIFIED path; a named human may approve through HUMAN_VERIFIED. Neither can masquerade as the other.
What statuses mean
An identified AI reviewer completed the evidence audit and the record carries AI reviewer identity and time. Public pages say “AI verified.”
A named human reviewer approved the structured interpretation and recorded when review occurred. Publication still requires the separate public gate.
The public ledger has no admitted trade-right claim attached to that original pick. Pending does not mean unencumbered, and absence of a claim is not a permanent guarantee.
Credible evidence disagrees or the interpretation remains unresolved. The site does not silently choose the cleaner answer.
The obligation may be known, but the deterministic resolver cannot safely express every dependency. Representation and scenario resolution are separate problems.
League rules
The 2027 ledger separately models league eligibility restrictions that attach to an original pick. This prevents the site from describing a league lottery rule as if one team negotiated protection against another.
Keeping data current
Draft rights change when teams make later trades. A new transaction that affects a verified arrangement returns that record to review until the transaction chain, structured right and explanation have been rechecked. Historical verification is not treated as permanent truth.
Boundaries
Start with the 2027 pick board, then open an individual pick page. Published rights carry their verifier, lifecycle and evidence; transaction provenance and applicable league restrictions are shown separately.