{"id":575504,"date":"2026-02-01T17:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575504\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:46:13","slug":"report-wizards-interested-in-lonzo-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/575504\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wizards interested in Lonzo Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ball is averaging 4.6 points and 3.9 assists per game this season as a reserve guard. He has played in most of the Cavaliers\u2019 games this season, and has been in better health than in recent years. Ball missed the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons due to complications from knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Washington could be a good landing spot for Ball, who would presumably play off the bench and could start in a pinch. In addition, his salary is movable and could give the Wizards cap flexibility, which they have a good amount of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let us know your thoughts in the comments below on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ball is averaging 4.6 points and 3.9 assists per game this season as a reserve guard. He has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,305,193,3846,6,20394],"class_list":{"0":"post-575504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-washington-wizards-trade-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115996628545812292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575504","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=575504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}