{"id":580713,"date":"2026-02-04T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:36:16","slug":"former-pfw-star-konchar-traded-to-utah-jazz-in-deadline-week-deal-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/580713\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PFW star Konchar traded to Utah Jazz in deadline-week deal | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WFFT) &#8211; The top basketball player to come out of the Fort Wayne collegiate ranks is now heading for his second NBA home.<\/p>\n<p>Former Purdue Fort Wayne star John Konchar is heading to the Utah Jazz as part of a major deadline-week trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Grizzlies have reportedly agreed to trade Defensive Player of the Year Jaren Jackson to Utah, along with Konchar, Jock Landale and Vince Williams Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies will receive Walter Clayton Jr., Kyle Anderson, Taylor Hendricks, Georges Niang and a trio of first-round draft picks in return.<\/p>\n<p>The trade ends Konchar\u2019s seven-season run with the team that signed him to his first NBA contract in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Signed as an undrafted free agent, Konchar has played in at least 19 games in every season since, logging 337 total games with the Grizzlies.<\/p>\n<p>Konchar graduated from Purdue Fort Wayne in 2019 as the Mastodons program leader in rebounds and program runner-up in points and steals.<\/p>\n<p>Purdue Fort Wayne inducted Konchar into its Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2026 in January.<\/p>\n<p>Have a story you want FOX 55 to cover or a news tip? Send an email to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfft.com\/sports\/former-pfw-star-konchar-traded-to-utah-jazz-in-deadline-week-deal\/mailto:news@wfft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news@wfft.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WFFT) &#8211; The top basketball player to come out of the Fort Wayne collegiate ranks is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,8396,6,2828,78354,78353,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-580713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-john-konchar","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-trade-deadline","13":"tag-pfw-athletics","14":"tag-purdue-fort-wayne-basketball","15":"tag-utah","16":"tag-utah-jazz","17":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580713","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=580713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}