The Nets, who recognized that Bradley Beal wanted the Wizards to acquire Spencer Dinwiddie and knew they had some leverage in sign-and-trade talks, initially asked Washington for a first-round pick, reports Fred Katz of The Athletic. When they were unsuccessful, the Nets tried to get Washington to part with Deni Avdija or Rui Hachimura, according to Katz.
However, the Wizards held firm in those negotiations and ended up keeping their top assets, instead sending Brooklyn a future second-round pick and a second-round pick swap. The Nets will also generate an $11.5MM trade exception in the deal.
As Katz details, the Wizards also had to sweeten the deal for the Lakers to convince them to loop the Russell Westbrook trade agreement into Washington’s acquisition of Dinwiddie via sign-and-trade, which is why L.A. will be receiving three second-round selections from the Wizards instead of just two.
Finally, Katz reports that the final version of the complex five-team trade will see the Wizards acquire cash considerations from the Pacers. The full breakdown of the trade agreement can be seen on our offseason trade tracker.
Here’s more on the Wizards:
- For much of this week, there had been a league-wide assumption that the Wizards may end up rerouting Kyle Kuzma to a new team as part of the Dinwiddie deal, but Washington never included him in trade discussions, according to David Aldridge of The Athletic, who notes that the club has significantly improved its depth with this week’s roster moves.
- Raul Neto‘s new deal with the Wizards will be a one-year, minimum-salary contract, according to Katz. Neto will join Dinwiddie and Aaron Holiday on the club’s point guard depth chart.
- Although Deni Avdija has been cleared for basketball activities, he’s not playing for the Wizards in Summer League, writes Katz. The club wants to limit the risk of a setback for 2020’s lottery pick, who is recovering from a right fibular hairline fracture.
A 5 team trade that left each team exactly where they were before the trade.
Lakers and Nets still contenders, Wizards still fighting for the 8th spot, Pacers and Spurs still rebuilding or trying to break through.
All that talk about Schroeder and Oubre and these bums still left in the dark. All in all this entire FA year was much ado about nothing other than the Westbrook trade.
REally goes to show you how over rated most of these players become by the media. Schroeder turnd down $20M, now he looks worht less than half of that money. Dinwiddie and a few others will be exposed too. Colling overpaid, etc. Just some good rolepplayers
Yeah, but the Wizards significantly increased their depth, ajd overall talent level on their team. They didn’t have much wiggle room before, as now they do if they get hit by an injury or two..Well, unless it is Beal or Dinwiddie..
Also, the Bulls got significantly better as well. Their Guard depth has drastically improved, and it isn’t even remotely close!!
Nobody cares about Schroder or Oubre, maybe in the West. You say Dins will be exposed, but you think about the wrong players. Gotta play the games.
Nets should use the TPE generated to sign Schroder to a 1 year 11.5 mill deal with player options attached as backup for if/when Irving gets hurt.
It can’t be used on a sign-and-trade since they’re way over the tax apron — would have to just be a straight trade.
Schroder and Irving hate eachother.. schroder won’t be a net. I bet schroder signs with clippers
Since Nets waived Chiozza and some other PG they need a backup
They signed patty mills to be the backup point guard
Correct. I figure that TPE for Dinwiddie is a de facto extension of the DPE they never used when he was injured. I’m not sure how far Tsai is willing to go into the luxury tax but one way I could see the Nets using that TPE is if a team is looking to shed a $20M+ contract in exchange for DeAndre Jordan’s contract. Can DPEs and TPEs only be used for expiring contracts? l could see DJ staying at KD’s request. I like DJ and don’t think he’s completely shot, but he’s a shell of the defender he used to be.
As I’ve said a few times, Washington did a good job of building around Beal, adding a piece at a position they’ve needed for a long time in KCP. They did end up losing potential defensive pieces in Hutchinson and Gill to get this deal done, but they now have a pretty deep roster. I still would question some things defensively, but we’ll see how the full roster looks as we get closer to training camp, and hopefully they can get some improvement internally from 1 or 2 guys there
Amazing to me how. It seems Harrell and Kuzma have lost their value. In these last two yrs. Washington is a good place for them to bounce back.
Kuzma might look amazing at first with new leadership, and possibly he will not be distracted by third-star talk popular in LA. His skitsiness (misspelled intentionally, as I am not a sykyatrist) may not show in the short run. This would allow WAS to flip him at a higher value.
Or, he could still turn out well, as Dinwiddie can be counted on to draw players into the fold.
WAS is very deep, varied pieces, no Russ to rely on… interesting. A good challenge for Dins.