{"id":101596,"date":"2025-06-16T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/101596\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T03:09:09","slug":"sixers-rival-magic-makes-move-to-acquire-desmond-bane-from-grizzlies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/101596\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers rival Magic makes move to acquire Desmond Bane from Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies are trading Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UcQnmHbgZb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UcQnmHbgZb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1934266665035841856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race for the Eastern Conference for the 2025-26 season is beginning to make moves in an effort to take down the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" data-autotag=\"9c580fdc-190c-4799-8818-97e0f670368a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> in the coming season. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" data-autotag=\"b3f2a355-8d98-44c0-a603-3f9a2d8bc375\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> will be in the mix as they hope for improved health on their side, but a rival team made a big move on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" data-autotag=\"0beff9dc-ada3-4e62-b859-030ef8c2c69f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> acquired Desmond Bane from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" data-autotag=\"14fae80b-1f91-422e-983f-9b615a7fd757\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> in a move that sent Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks, and a pick swap. Bane averaged 19.2 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 5.3 assists along with 1.2 steals in the 2024-25 season. He also shot 39.2% from deep on 6.1 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p>Bane will now slide in next to All-Star Paolo Banchero as well as borderline All-Star Franz Wagner in an effort to make the Magic legitimate contenders in the East. The Sixers will have to prepare for them as well as others in the East.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers will certainly be contenders in the East as long as they&#8217;re healthy. A trio of Joel Embiid, Paul George, and Tyrese Maxey makes them a strong team, but Philadelphia needs to hope those three can remain on the floor to lead this team to contention.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING: The Memphis Grizzlies are trading Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,1509,837,7,2719,836,497,1512,403,294,113,126,48,4196,293,177,6,67,47,76,61,134,114,1508,402,678,207,3817,132,425,2723,66,83,256,1263,1513,2720],"class_list":{"0":"post-101596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-banchero","10":"tag-bane","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-breaking","13":"tag-desmond","14":"tag-desmond-bane","15":"tag-franz","16":"tag-franz-wagner","17":"tag-grizzlies","18":"tag-indiana","19":"tag-indiana-pacers","20":"tag-magic","21":"tag-maxey","22":"tag-memphis","23":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-orlando","27":"tag-orlando-magic","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-pacers","31":"tag-paolo","32":"tag-paolo-banchero","33":"tag-philadelphia","34":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","35":"tag-philadelphia76ers","36":"tag-positive","37":"tag-smg","38":"tag-smg-breaking-wire","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-news","41":"tag-tyrese","42":"tag-tyrese-maxey","43":"tag-wagner","44":"tag-wire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114690848415738879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}