{"id":447933,"date":"2025-06-24T22:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447933"},"modified":"2025-06-24T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:50:58","slug":"sources-pelicans-acquire-jordan-poole-in-4-player-trade-with-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/sources-pelicans-acquire-jordan-poole-in-4-player-trade-with-wizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Pelicans acquire Jordan Poole in 4-player trade with Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1143\" data-end=\"1366\">The <strong data-start=\"1147\" data-end=\"1171\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> have acquired <strong data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1202\">Jordan Poole<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1218\">Saddiq Bey<\/strong>, and the <strong data-start=\"1228\" data-end=\"1243\">No. 40 pick<\/strong> in a deal with the <strong data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1285\">Washington Wizards<\/strong>, who receive <strong data-start=\"1299\" data-end=\"1314\">CJ McCollum<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1316\" data-end=\"1332\">Kelly Olynyk<\/strong>, and a <strong data-start=\"1340\" data-end=\"1365\">future second-rounder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1571\">Poole averaged <strong data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1398\">20.5 points<\/strong> last season and will bring scoring to a younger Pelicans core. McCollum gives the Wizards a veteran with an <strong data-start=\"1507\" data-end=\"1528\">expiring contract<\/strong> and opens up future financial flexibility.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1720\">Washington now holds the <strong data-start=\"1598\" data-end=\"1627\">6th, 18th, and 40th picks<\/strong> in the NBA Draft, while New Orleans keeps picks <strong data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1688\">7 and 23<\/strong>, boosting their youth movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The trade swaps guards &#8212; the Wizards shifting from Poole to the veteran in McCollum, who has an expiring contract. Washington now is expected to approach $100 million in projected cap space in 2026. Pelicans move younger, possibly more dynamic with Poole and Bey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5MoDagRyph\">https:\/\/t.co\/5MoDagRyph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1937590784066310521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/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>CJ McCollum and Kelly Olynyk head to Washington, Poole and Bey to New Orleans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":447932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/06\/l.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447933","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447933"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447933"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447933"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}