{"id":228507,"date":"2021-07-26T23:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=228507"},"modified":"2021-07-26T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:03:06","slug":"grizzlies-pelicans-finalizing-a-trade-jonas-valanciunas-among-players-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-pelicans-finalizing-a-trade-jonas-valanciunas-among-players-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies, Pelicans finalizing a trade, Jonas Valanciunas among players involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Memphis Grizzlies and New Orleans Pelicans are finalizing the final details for a trade that will involve both players and draft picks.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans will get Jonas Valanciunas and picks # 17 and 51 in the upcoming NBA Draft, while the Grizzlies will get Steven Adams, Eric Bledsoe, picks # 10 and 40 and a protected 2022 first pick (one of the picks the Pelicans bought from the Lakers in the Anthony Davis trade) .<\/p>\n<p>According to Bobby Marks New Orleans can generate about $36M in cap space if they renounce to Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart, and $25M if they bring back only the former Villanova swingman.<\/p>\n<p>Per Jonathan Givony, Josh Giddey could be the player the Grizzlies are interested in with pick No.10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Orleans creates salary cap space for August that allows them to either match an offer sheet on Lonzo Ball, or have the cap space to pursue a significant free agent point guard, including Kyle Lowry and others. Pels liked Valanciunas as floor spacer at center over Adams, too. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3YRyBTEg1S\">https:\/\/t.co\/3YRyBTEg1S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1419757450924789761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pelicans could have up to $36M in room but at the cost of Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart. <\/p>\n<p>Room goes down to $25M if they let Ball walk and bring back Hart. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mI5KRInrb9\">https:\/\/t.co\/mI5KRInrb9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/1419758187121717260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This trade has been swirling for a few days in different iterations as we reported yesterday. Many around the NBA believe Memphis will look to target Josh Giddey at No. 10, if he&#39;s available. That&#39;s one of the reasons we put him in that slot yesterday: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VEdy8p5uV6\">https:\/\/t.co\/VEdy8p5uV6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iVuJhUwwEb\">https:\/\/t.co\/iVuJhUwwEb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DraftExpress\/status\/1419757341667430410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans can generate about $36M in cap space if they renounce to Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart, and $25M if they bring back only the former Villanova swingman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":223146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[5058,1745,1121,8526],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-228507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-jonas-valanciunas-en","tag-memphis-grizzlies-en","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-steven-adams-en","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/Valanciunas.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228507"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=228507"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=228507"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=228507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}