As usual, nothing’s in order for draft

There’s a word in military slang, SNAFU, which stands roughly for Situation Normal, All Fouled Up.

It also applies to the day before the NBA draft when it could be Situation Normal, All Fluid and Unpredictable.

As usual, everyone has spent weeks lowballing everyone else, like Chicago offering Kirk Hinrich and one or two of the usual suspects (Ben Gordon, Tyrus Thomas) for Miami’s No. 2 pick.

Indiana and Toronto reportedly agreed to a deal but didn’t announce it: Jermaine O’Neal for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic, Joey Graham and the Raptors’ No. 17 pick.

In case there’s more to follow, this is how the land lays:

Miami would trade No. 2 for another high pick plus a good young point guard like Memphis’ Mike Conley.

Memphis just wants to do something everyone else doesn’t come down on it for, like donating Pau Gasol to the Lakers.

Memphis remains in talks, having masterminded itself into the largest pool of promising point guards it can’t use with Javaris Crittenton and Kyle Lowry behind Conley.

New York, (finally) trying to get under the salary cap for the 2010 free-agent class, was offering David Lee for another high pick, hoping to get two young starters whose salaries would be limited by the rookie scale until then.

Making the Clippers’ nightmare season complete, they lost a coin flip with New York for No. 5 which would have meant being assured of getting one of the top three “combo” guards, O.J. Mayo, Eric Gordon or Jerryd Bayless.

The Clippers tried to trade up for Mayo and now hope Gordon or Bayless drops.

Milwaukee was shopping Michael Redd but it’s not a fire sale. New Jersey, also intent on having cap room in 2010, otherwise known as the summer of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, was shopping Richard Jefferson, who didn’t look as good after Jason Kidd left. Denver turned down all offers for Carmelo Anthony, settling instead for punishing him for his driving-under-the-influence conviction by suspending him for two games.

Denver all but pulled up the gangway and steamed away for the summer. Still in need of a point guard who can shoot, the Nuggets had a shot at Kansas’ Mario Chalmers at No. 20 -- but traded the pick to Charlotte for the Bobcats’ lottery-protected No. 1 in 2009.

In other words, if the Bobcats are in the lottery, the Nuggets won’t get it next year.

In the meantime, Denver owner Stan Kroenke, who’s already paying more luxury tax than he wants, won’t incur any more.

One note on size: These are official measurements in bare feet at the Orlando pre-draft camp which vary ever more wildly from listed heights (Michael Beasley was 6 feet 10 at Kansas State but shrank to 6-7 in DisneyWorld).

For players who didn’t go to Orlando, I took off an inch-and-a-half instead of the inch I used to take but that’s probably still conservative.

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mark.heisler@latimes.com

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NBA DRAFT

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