After an arrangement including the Los Angeles Trimmers failed to work out, the Celtics and Washington Wizards worked out an arrangement including the Memphis Grizzlies to send the 7-foot-3 power forward/focus to Boston in front of a Wednesday night cutoff time, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports.
The Celtics will send guide watch Marcus Shrewd toward Memphis, while the Wizards will get Grizzlies monitor Tyus Jones in the arrangement. The Grizzlies are likewise sending the 25th pick (first round) of Thursday's NBA Draft and an extra first-round pick (by means of Brilliant State) in the 2024 draft to Boston.
The Celtics are exchanging the 35th pick Thursday's draft, Mike Muscala and Danilo Gallinari to the Wizards. Porzingis consented to pick into his $36 million player choice next season to get the exchange going.
The Grizzlies get Brilliant realizing they'll be without suspended Elite player Ja Morant for the initial 25 rounds of the 2023-24 season. Insight about the exchange broke not long after Wojnarowski revealed the disintegration of a proposed three-way exchange including the Trimmers.
Porzingis will join a Celtics group that completed second in the Eastern Gathering during the ordinary season and lost to the Miami Intensity in the Eastern Meeting finals. After sequential excursions to the gathering finals that remembered a NBA Finals appearance for 2022, Boston is hoping to overcome the challenge to a NBA title.
Porzingis, 27, found the middle value of 23.2 places, 8.4 bounce back, 2.7 helps and 1.5 blocks last season while shooting 49.8% from the field and 38.5% from 3-point distance in 65 games. His scoring normal was a lifelong high, obscuring the 22.7 ppg from his main Elite player crusade in 2017-18 with the New York Knicks.
Porzingis offers flexibility on offense and a cautious presence equipped for changing shots on the border and in the post. He joins a Celtics cutting edge that highlights veteran starter Al Horford and 2021-22 All-Guarded Group place Robert Williams III close by All-NBA forward Jayson Tatum.
Prior Wednesday, Wojnarowski and The Athletic's Jokes Charania revealed that the Celtics, Wizards and Trimmers were surrounding a three-way exchange that at last didn't work out as expected. Per the underlying detailed boundaries, the Wizards would have gotten Marcus Morris and the No. 30 pick in Thursday's draft from Los Angeles, while Boston would have sent Malcolm Brogdon to the Trimmers.
NBA insider Marc Stein revealed that the Trimmers' physical issue worries around Brogdon prompted the breakdown of the exchange.
The Trimmers would likewise have sent wing Amir Coffey to Washington, and the Celtics would have sent Gallinari to the Wizards in the arrangement, per Wojnarowski.
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