FRIDAY, 1:11am: The deal is official, the Thunder announce. Oklahoma City gives cash to Charlotte as part of the trade.
THURSDAY, 11:33pm: Oklahoma City is set to acquire Semaj Christon, the 55th overall selection in the draft, reports Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe (Twitter link). The Hornets will send him to the Thunder after striking a deal to acquire the No. 55 pick from the Heat earlier tonight, Washburn adds (on Twitter).
FRIDAY, 12:58am: The deal is official, the Heat announce via press release. Miami also sends a 2019 second-round pick and cash to Charlotte as part of the trade.
THURSDAY, 9:11pm: The Heat and Hornets have agreed to a trade that will send No. 24 overall pick Shabazz Napier from Charlotte to Miami, tweets Marc Stein of ESPN.com. Miami will send the 26th and 55th overall picks in tonight’s draft plus a future second-rounder to the Hornets, according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
The Spurs have acquired the rights to No. 54 overall pick Nemanja Dangubic from the Sixers, as San Antonio announced via press release. The Serbian shooting guard goes to the Spurs in exchange for the 58th and 60th picks in this year’s draft. The Sixers used the No. 58 pick on Tennessee shooting guard Jordan McRae and traded the 60th pick to the Nets. The No. 60 pick was Baylor power forward Cory Jefferson.
FRIDAY, 12:24am: The deal is official, the Hawks announced in a press release. It’s a 2015 second-rounder headed to the Bucks, according to the release.
THURSDAY, 10:51pm: Milwaukee gets a future second-round pick in the deal, Ford tweets.
10:49pm: The Bucks and Hawks have agreed to send the No. 48 pick to Atlanta, reports Chad Ford of ESPN.com (Twitter link). It’s unclear what Milwaukee’s getting, but deals at this stage of the draft often involve cash. University of Pittsburgh shooting guard Lamar Patterson is the selection, tweets Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress.
FRIDAY, 12:18am: The deal is official, the Magic have announced via press release.
THURSDAY, 12:18pm: The Magic have agreed to send Arron Afflalo to the Nuggets for Evan Fournier and the No. 56 pick, league sources tell Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports (on Twitter). The Nuggets appear to be absorbing Afflalo into a trade exception, Zach Lowe of Grantland tweets. A quick glance at this summer’s outstanding trade exceptions would indicate that Denver is using the $9.868MM exception from the Andre Iguodala deal to take on Afflalo.
Afflalo is set to earn $7.56MM this season and has a player option for 2015/16 at $7.75MM, but it seems likely that he’ll opt out, effectively making his deal an expiring contract. The haul for the guard may seem light, but that fact could have weighed down his trade value. Afflalo put up a career-high 18.2 PPG this season in 35 minutes per contest. His ~46% field goal percentage was right in line with his career average and his 16.0 PER was a full three points higher than his mark last season.
The deal is something of a homecoming for Afflalo, who played for Denver from 2009/10 through 2011/12. The reunion won’t be short lived, as a source tells Chris Dempsey of the Denver Post (on Twitter) that the 28-year-old will not be flipped to another team in a trade. Afflalo has been mentioned as someone the Nuggets were interested in acquiring for the purposes of flipping him to the Wolves in a Kevin Love deal.
Fournier averaged 8.4 PPG, 2.7 RPG, and 1.5 APG in 19.5 minutes per night in 76 games last season. The shooting guard showed flashes of brilliance in his rookie campaign but didn’t take significant strides forward in 2013/14. Even though he shot well shot well from downtown, his field-goal percentage dropped to 41.9%, down 7.4 percent from the previous season.
Orlando surely likes Fournier but the real motivation for the deal comes in additional flexibility. Following the trade, the Magic have roughly $27.5MM in guaranteed salary on the books for 2014/15.
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FRIDAY, 12:06am: The Lakers have officially announced the acquisition of the pick, which was used on Jordan Clarkson (Twitter link). It’s $1.8MM in cash that’s headed to Washington in return, tweets Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times.
THURSDAY, 11:44pm: A little less than $2MM is going from the Lakers to the Wizards, a source tells Michael Lee of The Washington Post (Twitter link).
10:55pm: It’s indeed cash headed to the Wizards, according to J. Michael of CSNWashington (on Twitter).
10:37pm: The Lakers and Wizards have struck a deal that sends the No. 46 pick to L.A., tweets Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Former University of Missouri guard Jordan Clarkson is the selection, Wojnarowski adds. It’s not clear what Washington gets out of the arrangement, though I’d assume it’s cash.
The Spurs agreed to send the 58th pick to the Sixers, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports (Twitter link). Philadelphia used the pick on Tennessee shooting guard Jordan McRae, according to RealGM (on Twitter).
9:35pm: The trade is official, the Magic announce via press release. The Magic get Payton, and the Sixers get Saric, a 2015 second-round pick, and the 2017 first-round pick that Philadelphia sent to the Magic in the Howard/Bynum trade.
8:10pm: The Sixers are getting back the 2017 first-rounder they sent to the Magic in the four-team Dwight Howard/Andrew Bynum trade, Wojnarowski tweets. Presumably, that’s the 2017 first-rounder Berger was referring to.
7:55pm: The Sixers are sending 10th overall pick Elfrid Payton to the Magic for Dario Saric, the No. 12 selection, tweets Chad Ford of ESPN.com. Orlando is sending its 2017 first-rounder, top-11 protected, to the Sixers, and that protection goes to top-eight for 2018, according to Ken Berger of CBSSports.com (Twitter link). The Magic will also give up a 2015 second-round pick, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports (on Twitter).
9:28pm: The trade is official, the Bulls announced via press release. It’s McDermott and Randolph to Chicago, while Jusuf Nurkic (the 16th pick) and Gary Harris (the 19th pick) head to Denver along with the least favorable of the Bulls’ pair of second rounders in 2015 (Chicago has both its own second-round pick and Portland’s second-rounder that year).
8:58pm: Anthony Randolph is also set to go to Chicago in the swap, tweets Chris Dempsey of The Denver Post.
8:15pm: The Bulls are also sending a future second-round pick to Denver, according to Ken Berger of CBSSports.com (Twitter link).
7:48pm: The Nuggets will trade Doug McDermott to the Bulls after taking him 11th overall, reports Sam Amick of USA Today (Twitter link). The Nuggets get picks Nos. 16 and 19 in exchange, tweets Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com.
The Cavs have drafted Andrew Wiggins with the No. 1 overall pick. The Plain Dealer first reported the pick (Twitter link). Wiggins was reportedly the preference of owner Dan Gilbert, while the front office was said to like Jabari Parker better. Parker will go to the Bucks at No. 2, Milwaukee officials have said, according to Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune (Twitter link). The Cavs don’t intend to trade Wiggins now that they’ve drafted him, tweets Chad Ford of ESPN.com.
The Kansas small forward entered the college season as the consensus No. 1 pick, but an underwhelming showing allowed doubt to creep in, and Cleveland seemed uncertain about Wiggins and Parker until today. Wiggins joins fellow Canadian and now Cavs teammate Anthony Bennett as the only two from their country to have ever been drafted No. 1 overall.