{"id":482394,"date":"2026-02-05T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482394"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:13:00","slug":"lonzo-ball-traded-to-the-utah-jazz-in-three-team-deal-expected-to-be-waived-headed-for-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lonzo-ball-traded-to-the-utah-jazz-in-three-team-deal-expected-to-be-waived-headed-for-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonzo Ball traded to The Utah Jazz in three-team deal: expected to be waived, headed for free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1749\"><strong data-start=\"1521\" data-end=\"1538\">The Utah Jazz<\/strong> acquired <strong data-start=\"1548\" data-end=\"1562\">Lonzo Ball<\/strong> in a three-team trade with <strong data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1617\">The Cleveland Cavaliers<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1643\">The Atlanta Hawks<\/strong>, but he\u2019s expected to be waived.<br data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1679\" \/>That would allow Ball to enter free agency, according to ESPN sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"2008\">Cleveland sent Ball and two second-round picks to Utah, which also received cash considerations from Atlanta for <strong data-start=\"1864\" data-end=\"1880\">Jock Landale<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1881\" data-end=\"1884\" \/>Ball became expendable after the Cavs landed <strong data-start=\"1929\" data-end=\"1945\">James Harden<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1950\" data-end=\"1969\">Dennis Schroder<\/strong> in separate trades over the past week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2010\" data-end=\"2251\">The move comes one day after Utah\u2019s blockbuster to acquire <strong data-start=\"2069\" data-end=\"2090\">Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/strong> from Memphis, where Landale reached the Jazz in that package.<br data-start=\"2152\" data-end=\"2155\" \/>Ball, 28, struggled in Cleveland, averaging 4.6 points on 30% shooting and below 30% from three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers move Ball plus two second-round picks; The Atlanta Hawks are also involved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":394789,"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":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-482394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Utah-Jazz.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482394","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=482394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482394"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482394"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482394"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}