They could've packaged the pick with other assets. Incentivize. You haggle until you find a suitor.
The irony is, that pick [Wiseman] has no value now. Nobody wants a big man that doesn't know how to be a big man. Just like they dropped the ball with Paschall when they should've traded him coming off his rookie season.
There were no suitors. It wasn't for lack of effort, but every team except maybe Charlotte tried to trade down with no success.
A trade wasn't made at all til the team who had 38489452 first rounders decided to move up for Poku at 17.
The big rumor (along with a smaller one) was 3+ something (whether that was Bridges, Washington, or some sweetener) to #1 where Wiseman woulda went first (because from just a positional need standpoint, Wiseman was the shoo-in selection). That trade fell apart obviously. The other one was the idea of Wendell Carter + 4 for #2, but Chicago had other ideas (in hindsight they woulda did this, but they also probably thought LaMelo would go first-- and then GS might have taken someone like Avdija then). The problem is that Golden State couldn't pull off a trade because they didn't have the best bargaining chip in a weak draft.