{"id":122998,"date":"2025-06-25T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/122998\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:40:09","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-trade-cj-mccollum-to-washington-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/122998\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans Trade CJ McCollum to Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum has reportedly been traded to the Washington Wizards<\/a> after four seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans. Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a> broke the story, citing sources.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans are also moving big man Kelly Olynyk and a future unspecified second-round pick to Washington. In return, New Orleans is receiving guard Jordan Poole, forward Saddiq Bey and the 40th pick in Wednesday\u2019s NBA Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CJ McCollum spent eight-and-a-half season with the Blazers after being drafted 10th by the franchise in 2013. McCollum was honored as the NBA\u2019s Most Improved Player for the 2015-16 season, and was a key component of a Blazers team that made the playoffs eight seasons in a row from 2013-2021. He was traded to the Pelicans in February 2022 along with Larry Nance Jr. and Tony Snell for Josh Hart, Tomas Satoransky, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Didi Louzada, a protected first-round pick and two seconds.<\/p>\n

Last season with the Pelicans McCollum averaged 21.3 points in 56 appearances, while Olynyk went for 10.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in 20 appearances.<\/p>\n

Poole was the leading scorer for the Wizards last season with 20.5 points per game in 68 games. Bey did not play last season with an ACL injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Portland Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum has reportedly been traded to the Washington Wizards after four seasons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,41,601,24984,43,28,23683,6,2171,239,674,675,687,471,3967,42,63,409,1617,682,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-122998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazer","10":"tag-blazers","11":"tag-cj","12":"tag-edge","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-mccollum","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-news-rumors","17":"tag-new","18":"tag-orleans","19":"tag-pelicans","20":"tag-portland","21":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","22":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","23":"tag-s","24":"tag-to","25":"tag-trade","26":"tag-trail-blazers","27":"tag-washington","28":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114742874952918491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122998","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=122998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}