NBA Trade Season: What happens next
The action continued Sunday morning with a Detroit/Washington deal and more activity is coming soon
Marvin Bagley III, selected No. 2 overall by the Sacramento Kings in the 2018 NBA Draft ahead of Luka Dončić, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Trae Young, has been traded for the second time.
The Detroit Pistons, after acquiring Bagley from Sacramento in February 2022 in attempt to provide him with a fresh start, abandoned the experiment Sunday by packaging two second-round picks to Washington to convince the Wizards to take on Bagley's $12.5 million salary for next season.
Washington has sent the expiring contracts of veterans Danilo Gallinari ($6.8 million) and Mike Muscala ($3.5 million) to the Pistons and also acquired Isaiah Livers from Detroit to make the salary-cap math work. Detroit now projects to have between an estimated $50 million and $66 million in cap space this summer … depending on whether Bojan Bogdanović remains on the Pistons’ roster or is finally traded in coming days after external interest dating to early last season.
The Pistons, of course, sport the league's worst record at 3-36. The 7-21 Wizards share the second-worst record with San Antonio.
We've now seen two trades inside a month since the unofficial launch of NBA Trade Season on Dec. 15: New York's acquisition of OG Anunoby from Toronto and Bagley's second career relocation.
Read on for the latest around-the-league chatter regarding what happens next ...
