{"id":102816,"date":"2025-06-16T17:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/102816\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:26:08","slug":"grizzlies-previously-had-trade-interest-in-franz-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/102816\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies Previously Had Trade Interest In Franz Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies traded away Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for a pick heavy package in a surprising deal on Sunday after they had been attempting to acquire a star wing for multiple years. The Grizzlies had pursued trades for Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and even Franz Wagner of the Magic, sources tell Jake Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzles eventually acquired Marcus Smart from the Boston Celtics during the 2023 offseason for two first round picks. The trade didn&#8217;t work out as intended as Smart struggled with injuries and a decline in his production before the Grizzlies traded him to the Washington Wizards at the 2025 trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>When Bridges was traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Brooklyn Nets at the 2023 trade deadline, <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/270498\/Grizzlies-Pursued-Mikal-Bridges-Even-Before-Trade-To-Nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Grizzlies were attempting to acquire him with a pick heavy package<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/270451\/Grizzlies-Pursued-Mikal-Bridges-OG-Anunoby-At-Deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis also offered three first round picks to the Toronto Raptors in 2023 for Anunoby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner signed <a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/276556\/Franz-Wagner-Magic-Agree-To-Five-Year-$224M-Extension-With-Rose-Designation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a five-year, $224 million extension<\/a> with the Magic during the 2024 offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies traded away Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for a pick heavy package in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,21817,293,177,4070,6,331],"class_list":{"0":"post-102816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-grizzlies-previously-had-trade-interest-in-franz-wagner","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-realgm-wiretap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114694218518521258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102816","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=102816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}