The Washington Wizards acquired 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis, Jaden Hardy, D\u2019Angelo Russell and Dante Exum from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Khris Middleton, AJ Johnson, Malaki Branham, Marvin Bagley III, 2 first-round picks and 3 second-rounders, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n
None of the picks they are shipping out are their own:<\/p>\n
\u2022 2026 first-rounder (via OKC)<\/p>\n
\u2022 2030 top-20 protected first-rounder (via GSW)<\/p>\n
\u2022 2026 second-rounder (via PHX)<\/p>\n
\u2022 2027 secone-rounder (via CHI)<\/p>\n
\u2022 2029 second-rounder (via HOU)<\/p>\n
After acquiring Trae Young in January, the Wizards have made another move, this time to bolster their frontcourt alongside Alex Sarr and Kyshawn George.<\/p>\n
Davis has missed the majority of the last two season\u2019s due to injury. And he is under a rather hefty contract that runs through the 2026-27 season with a player option in 2027-28.<\/p>\n
2027-28: $62.7 million (player option)<\/p>\n
But Washington clearly liked the value in acquiring Davis to pair with its young core \u2014 especially Sarr, who\u2019s emerged as one of the league\u2019s premiere rim protectors at just 20 years old.<\/p>\n
Jaden Hardy is just 23 years old and under contract both this season and next. He has a team option at $6 million for the 2027-28 season. It\u2019s possible he sticks around as a young guard the Wizards try to further develop.<\/p>\n
D\u2019Angelo Russell, on the other hand, is 29 years old and was recently removed from Dallas\u2019 rotation. He has a player option at $5.9 million for next season. Given how the Wizards handled similar situations with veterans acquired via trade (Marcus Smart for example), Russell is a possible buyout candidate if Washington can\u2019t flip him elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Dante Exum is on a $2.3 million expiring contract. Washington will likely let him enter free agency this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards acquired 10-time NBA All-Star Anthony Davis, Jaden Hardy, D\u2019Angelo Russell and Dante Exum from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,15577,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-582718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washington-wizards-news","13":"tag-washingtonwizards","14":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116014570805011960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582718","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=582718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}