{"id":576091,"date":"2026-02-01T23:58:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/576091\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:58:39","slug":"suns-dillon-brooks-reveals-grizzlies-tried-to-trade-him-to-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/576091\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks reveals Grizzlies tried to trade him to Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/dillon-brooks-grizzlies-trade\/1911770\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Suns&#039; Dillon Brooks reveals Grizzlies tried to trade him to Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks reveals Grizzlies tried to trade him to Warriors<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Bay Area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With countless contentious moments between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brookdi01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dillon Brooks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dillon Brooks<\/a>\u00a0and the Warriors throughout the years,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0hard to imagine the now-Phoenix Suns\u00a0wing\u00a0playing for Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0it might not have been far from reality\u00a0during his tenure with the Memphis\u00a0Grizzlies,\u00a0Brooks explained to live streamer N3on during a Twitch broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe funny part is, when I was\u00a0on\u00a0Memphis, they were trying to trade me to the Warriors,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cThat\u2019s\u00a0what\u00a0was shocking\u00a0about\u00a0the hate. The fans\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know that, but they were trying to trade me to the Warriors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when exactly the Grizzlies were looking to ship Brooks to the Warriors, but it might have been after the 2022-23 NBA\u00a0season when Memphis completed a five-team trade that landed Brooks with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In the 2023 offseason,\u00a0Memphis reportedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/nba-rumors-grizzlies-interested-in-draymond-green\/1636298\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:showed interest in acquiring Draymond Green;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">showed interest in acquiring Draymond Green<\/a>\u00a0before\u00a0ultimately trading\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smartma01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Marcus Smart.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Marcus Smart.<\/a>\u00a0Green\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draymond-green-lebron-james-contract\/1803830\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:considered signing with the Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">considered signing with the Grizzlies<\/a>\u00a0in free agency\u00a0before he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nba\/golden-state-warriors\/draymond-green-contract-extension\/1637652\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:signed a four-year, $100 million extension;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">signed a four-year, $100 million extension<\/a>\u00a0to stay with the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the\u00a0Grizzlies were interested in a Brooks-Green swap at some point before free agency began.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Brooks went on to play two seasons with the Rockets before he was dealt\u00a0to\u00a0the Suns in a trade that brought Kevin Durant to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks now is having a breakout season in Phoenix, averaging 21.1 points per game while shooting 44.8 percent from the field, both career-high marks.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubs-talk-a-golden-state-warriors-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Dillon Brooks reveals Grizzlies tried to trade him to Warriors originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,1195,200,294,194,938,326,293,177,4070,6,604,181,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-576091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dillon-brooks","10":"tag-draymond-green","11":"tag-grizzlies","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-marcus-smart","15":"tag-memphis","16":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","17":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-suns","20":"tag-the-grizzlies","21":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115998091136078146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576091","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=576091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}