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Mainstreet is right, but another way Milwaukee could trade a 1st is if they decided to change the protection of the pick owed to the Suns. So if they wanted to move their 2020 pick, they'd have to remove protection from the 2018 pick, since they can't trade them back to back 2020 is the earliest pick they could move. However I think the Suns would need to agree to remove the protection also, but in that regard I'm not entirely sure. I know teams have lifted restrictions in the past in order to trade future picks though.
It seems like something similar happened with the first Miami pick owed to the Suns. I believe it was changed by agreement.