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Wizards Rumored To Be Interested In Trading For Lou Williams, Bojan Bogdanovic

... in Trading for Lou Williams, Bojan Bogdanovic. Danny Bollinger/Getty Images. Adam Wells Featured Columnist February 19, 2017. With the Washington Wizards entering the All-Star break as the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference having won nine of their last 10 games, they are looking to make moves before Thursday's trade deadline. Per Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, the Wizards have their eyes on Lou Williams of the Los Angeles Lakers and Bojan Bogdanovic of the Brooklyn Nets. The Vertical @The Vertical. The prospects of Boston & Chicago reengaging on a Jimmy Butler deal this week. Trade deadline preview w/ @Woj Vertical NBA and @Chris Mannix YS. __link__/Se Ey G 2 Lj 94. 2/19/2017, 3:37:09 AM. The Wizards are a compelling team in the East right now. They have two legitimate stars in John Wall and Bradley Beal. Markieff Morris, Otto Porter and Marcin Gortat, who have been the other starters along with Wall and Beal, all average at least 11.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. The problem is Washington has no depth off its bench. The Wizards rank 29 th in bench scoring (29.1), last in rebounding (11.1) and ...

Five Takeaways From The Lakers' 97-96 Loss To Sacramento

... was well off the mark. “If he made [the second free throw] we would have taken a timeout,” Walton said. “With a miss, especially when I saw Lou come up with the ball, anything we drew up was gonna be for him at that moment anyway. “I’ve seen enough basketball in my experience that if you get the guy you want with the ball in his hands and you cannot allow a defense to get set, good things can happen. …. “I like letting it go, see if in the chaos he can break away and come up with a shot. He’s not gonna get a wide-open look no matter what we draw up for him, so he’s going to have to make a challenging shot, either way.”. 2. The Lakers had no antidote for the 6-foot-11, 270-pound Cousins, who, in addition to his 40 points grabbed 12 rebounds and had eight assists. Cousins made 13 of 24 shots from the field and 12 of 19 from the free-throw line. Lakers center Tarik Black fouled out in only 21 minutes guarding Cousins. Timofey Mozgov , Ivica Zubac, Larry Nance Jr. and Julius Randle each took turns on Cousins, with little luck. “He’s an All Star-caliber player, the ...

Wizards Interested In Trading For Lou Williams And Bojan Bogdanovic To Bolster Bench

... Angeles Lakers guard Lou Williams and Brooklyn Nets guard/forward Bojan Bogdanović. He also revealed that the Wizards are willing to give up a future draft pick to strengthen their wing position. "They see an opportunity here. This team has played really well. They struggled early, and now have been on a tremendous run. They want to capitalize on it. They want to get better. They're a dangerous team. A lot of teams in the East look at Washington and don't want to see them in the postseason," Wojnarowski said in his report. Williams and Bogdanovic can be the offensive spark plugs off the bench the Wizards are looking for. Williams has proven time and again in his career that he can fill this role, and Bogdanovic is a solid shooter as well. Of course, each of them has their weaknesses, but they are still better than most of the players on the Wizards' second unit right now. While Kelly Oubre Jr. and Trey Burke ...

Derrick Favors, Lou Williams Reportedly Being Discussed In Deal Talks

... the market ahead of a trade around the draft.”. Noting that the Jazz have about $13 million in cap space this season, Lowe also wrote Monday that “here’s betting Utah offers George Hill a big raise this season as part of a contract extension” should the team not take back a big salary in a trade. Elsewhere, ESPN’s Ian Begley reported Monday that the Jazz have inquired about Los Angeles Lakers leading scorer Lou Williams. The Lakers could tank the rest of the season given that if their draft pick this summer falls outside of the top three, it will go to the Philadelphia 76 ers. In a sixth man role, the 6-foot-1, 175-pound Williams is averaging 18.6 points per contest. The 11 th-year guard won the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2015 while he was with the Toronto Raptors. His contract, which will pay $7 million per season, expires in 2018. Begley reported that Los Angeles could want a first-round pick in exchange for Williams. The Jazz currently have two first-rounders in the 2017 draft, their own and the Golden State Warriors’ thanks to the ...

Is The Proposed Reggie Jackson, Elfrid Payton, Lou Williams Deal Actually Real

... to make this deal worth if you excluded the useless Jeff Green (sorry, Jeff), and included any number of Magic players — former Piston Jodie Meeks, for instance. So what’s going on. That’s what brought me back to Bruce Tennen. It’s not that I started believing him, necessarily. Instead, I decided that it was worth taking it a little more seriously. A Michigan guy with possible Michigan connections. OK. Obviously goes to Pistons games and maybe he’s good enough at his job to make some of the right kind of friends. He also first mentioned Jackson drawing interest from Orlando on Feb. 7. Here’s what else he had to say about this purported trade. He implied he has a source within the Pistons organization. He tossed out that Orlando GM Rob Hennigan liked Jackson when both were in Oklahoma City. He said an alternative version of the trade would involve the Pistons also sending a protected first-round pick if Orlando would part with Elfrid Payton. 2 versions: Either Lou Williams & Hezonja coming here. Hilliard RJax to ...

Could The Utah Jazz Really Bring Back Deron Williams

... Williams. By TONY JONES | The Salt Lake Tribune. First Published Feb 21 2017 07:42 AM    •    Updated 26 minutes ago. Salt Lake City, UT-5/26/07-9:12:47 PM- Utah's Deron Williams walk off of the court after the game at the Energy Solutions Arena. Jazz won 109-83 2 nd Half. * Jazz v Spurs Chris Detrick/Salt Lake Tribune File #_E 1 M 6020 `. Jazz notes » Lou Williams traded to Rockets; Deron Williams’ return floated as possibility. Share This Article. ARTICLE PHOTO GALLERY (9). The Utah Jazz will be aggressive looking to add depth before Thursday's NBA trade deadline, The Tribune has been told, although one target has already gotten away — and an intriguing potential reunion could be a possibility. The Jazz reached out to the Los Angeles Lakers with an interest in acquiring shooting guard Lou Williams, but the guard was traded on Tuesday afternoon to the Houston Rockets for Corey Brewer and a first-round draft pick. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo's The Vertical first reported the trade, which was later confirmed by league sources to The Tribune. Williams, 30, is one of the better ...

Lakers Reportedly Deal Lou Williams To Rockets For Brewer, 1st-rounder

... landscape in the Western Conference or help the Rockets match up differently with Golden State. But it addresses a weakness with a strength, and involves only surrendering a pick they don’t need. The Rockets have bolstered their reserves with young players the last few years with Montrezl Harrell , Sam Dekker and Clint Capela. They were not in need of another pick heading to Rio Grande Valley. It’s a good return on assets, given their situation. LOS ANGELES LAKERS. RECEIVE: Corey Brewer, unprotected first-round 2017 draft pick. SURRENDER: Lou Williams. GRADE: A. Williams served no purpose for the Lakers. He wasn’t going to be part of their rebuilding plan, and his contract and limitations meant he was never going to fetch significant return. They pick up a veteran making approximately the same money, who will fill up time and play hard, and nab a first-rounder. The pick has little value, but first-round picks should be all the Lakers are pursuing at this point. They didn’t try and parlay Williams into taking on a bigger name for more money, they ...

Lakers Deal Lou Williams To The Rockets

... this season, posting a career-low Player Efficiency Rating. From a financial perspective, Houston actually saves a little bit of money, as Brewer was owed $15.2 million combined over this season and next while Williams will take home just $14 million. There’s zero doubt which player Houston would rather have as it gets up for a possible deep postseason run this year and looks to refine one of the league’s most potent attacks around Harden into the future. No Magic Hire: Lakers Still Stuck In The Past. Although Houston didn’t part with much to acquire Williams, there are a few reasons to pump the brakes on the hype train. First, he’s been a far less effective player in the playoffs than in the regular season, averaging just 10.8 PPG and shooting 36.2% from the field in the postseason. Second, his defensive impact numbers have been well below average for years, making him the type of weak link who will get picked on mercilessly by teams like the Spurs and Warriors. Third, the redundancy of his skillset with Harden and Gordon will ...

Lakers Trading Lou Williams To Houston For Corey Brewer

... at 18.6 points per game, playing off the bench. Brewer was averaging 4.2 points for Houston. The trade came hours after the Lakers announced the firing of general manager Mitch Kupchak and put Johnson in charge of basketball operations — part of a massive front office shake-up. And while the draft pick will help the Lakers' future, the Rockets just got deeper. Williams has scored more points off the bench than anyone else in the NBA this season — and Eric Gordon, the newly crowned 3-point shootout champion at All-Star weekend — is No. 2 on that list. Reserves have three games of 35 points or more in the NBA this season, all by Williams, all in a dazzling seven-day span in early December. He had 40 points against Memphis, 38 against Utah and 35 against Phoenix. Williams has also been to the playoffs six times with three different teams, seeing action ...

Magic Johnson Takes Over Lakers, Trades Lou Williams

... but Jeanie Buss has final say under the structure set up by their late father, Jerry Buss. She used it to chart a new course for the 16-time NBA champion franchise, which has the NBA's third-worst record at 19-39. The Lakers are almost certain to miss the playoffs for a team-record fourth straight season, and they posted the worst record in team history during each of the previous three years. "It was such a hard to decision to make, that I probably waited too long," Jeanie Buss said in an interview on Spectrum Sports Net, the Lakers' television network. "For that, I apologize to Laker fans. Now, with clarity and direction, and after talking with Earvin, a change was needed" (see full story). Lakers: Deal reached to trade Williams to Rockets. The Los Angeles Lakers have swung their first deal of the Magic Johnson Era, agreeing to send Lou Williams to the Houston Rockets for Corey Brewer and a future draft pick. Brewer's agent Wallace Prather confirmed the terms of ...

Wizards Reportedly Interested In Lou Williams, Bogdanovic

... to be a rental for them.”. In a vacuum, trading a first-round pick in a deep draft to rent a bench scorer for a few months seems like a bad idea, but the Wizards have won 18 of their last 21 games and are quickly closing in on the Celtics and Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference. Especially given Cleveland’s injury problems this season, this might be the right time to go into win-now mode and try to steal one of the top two seeds in the East. Williams is a straight bucket-getter who was no problem fitting into any team. He’s averaging a career-high 18.6 points off the bench for the Lakers this season, and is a leading candidate to win his second Sixth Man of the Year award. He would immediately bolster a weak Wizards second unit that doesn’t have a player averaging more than six points per game. Bogdanovic isn’t quite the high-octane scorer that Williams is, but he is a big improvement over what the Wizards are currently working with. The 6-8 forward is averaging 14.2 points per game while shooting 35 percent on 3-pointers. If Washington can add one of these bench ...