{"id":583311,"date":"2026-02-05T03:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583311\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:35:11","slug":"thunder-trade-ousmane-dieng-second-round-pick-to-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/583311\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Trade Ousmane Dieng, Second-Round Pick To Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thunder and Hornets have officially finalized a trade sending forward Ousmane Dieng<\/a> and a 2029 second-round pick to Charlotte in exchange for center Mason Plumlee<\/a>, the two teams announced<\/a> in press releases<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The terms of the deal were reported in bits and pieces as news broke that the Thunder were acquiring<\/a> Jared McCain<\/a> from Philadelphia and the Hornets were using Dieng as part of their package<\/a> for Bulls guard Coby White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dieng, 22, was the 11th overall pick in the 2022 draft, selected by the Thunder one spot before they nabbed Jalen Williams<\/a>. However, the Frenchman never evolved into a reliable rotation player in Oklahoma City, appearing in 136 regular season games across three-and-a-half seasons and averaging 4.2 points and 2.1 rebounds in 12.0 minutes per night.<\/p>\n

The move is financially motivated for the Thunder.\u00a0Dieng is on an expiring $6.7MM contract this season, while Plumlee is on a one-year, minimum-salary contract with a cap hit of $2.3MM. By saving $4.4MM in this move, Oklahoma City will be able to remain below the tax when it finalizes its acquisition of McCain, who is earning $4.2MM this season. The expectation is that Plumlee will be waived to make room for McCain on OKC\u2019s 15-man roster.<\/p>\n

As for the Hornets, they\u2019ll take advantage of their financial flexibility below the luxury tax line to accommodate a salary dump and acquire an extra second-round selection in the process. The Thunder, who have no shortage of future second-round picks, will send them the most favorable of Atlanta\u2019s and Miami\u2019s 2029 second-rounders.<\/p>\n

Charlotte will subsequently flip Dieng to Chicago along with Collin Sexton<\/a> in a trade that will send White and Mike Conley<\/a> to the Hornets. It\u2019s unclear whether or not the Bulls will hang onto Dieng once that deal is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thunder and Hornets have officially finalized a trade sending forward Ousmane Dieng and a 2029 second-round pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,12445,6609],"class_list":{"0":"post-583311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-mason-plumlee","10":"tag-ousmane-dieng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116015932024874799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583311","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=583311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}