Veteran Spurs guard Devonte‘ Graham and a second-round draft choose are being traded to the Hornets, considered one of his former groups, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Graham received’t be again in Charlotte for lengthy, although. Woj notes that the Hornets plan to waive Graham, making him an unrestricted free agent.
The 6-foot-1 Kansas alum, 29, performed sparingly with the Spurs final season, averaging simply 5.0 factors on a .352/.301/.813 slash line. He appeared in simply 23 contests, logging 13.6 minutes per.
Graham kicked off his NBA profession with the Hornets, for whom he performed from 2018-21. He spent 2021-22 and a part of 2022-23 with the New Orleans Pelicans earlier than being traded to San Antonio halfway by way of that season. Throughout his greatest 12 months, 2019-20, Graham completed fifth in Most Improved Participant voting, averaging 18.2 factors, 7.5 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.0 steals an evening.
Per cap expert Yossi Gozlan, this can give San Antonio some wage reduction in ditching Devonte’s $2.85M partially assured deal for 2024-25. The group will now have $19.1M in cap house.
As Gozlan notes, the Spurs may theoretically take again the mid-sized contract of a veteran wing like Harrison Barnes or Kevin Huerter to assist orchestrate a three-team sign-and-trade with the Bulls and Kings to ship All-Star wing DeMar DeRozan to Sacramento.