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ESPN critic Adrian Wojnarowski announces that the Lithuanian national team leader will instead travel to New Orleans, where he will defend the Pelicans club from now on.
Grizzlies management will send calls 17 and 51 of this year’s NBA Rookie Trade to the Pelicans along with the JV.
For their part, the Pelicans will introduce midfielder Steven Adams, midfielder Eric Bledsoe, this year’s NBA 10 and 40 rookie recruits and NBA 2022 protected rookie retirement (top 10) to Memphis.
With this move, the Pelicans ditched the aforementioned basketball players’ “heavy” contracts and freed their salary-cap seats. This will be very important for the club in the near future to save Lonzo Ball or to invite one of the free agent players, for example, Kyle Lowry, the former co-club of J. Valčičiūnas in the Raptors club.
The two traded basketball players still had two-year contracts: through them, Adams would have swallowed almost 35 million and E. Bledsoe, more than 37 million. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
Photo by Scanpix / Eric Bledsoe and Steven Adams vs. Kyrie Irving
According to A. Wojnarowski, New Orleans’ leadership in the center forward position in place of S. Adams saw J.Valančiūnas, who can offer a more versatile game and widen the field with long shots.
Last season, Lithuania’s three-point accuracy was very solid at 36.8 percent.
The 29-year-old from Utena enters the trading vortex for the second time in his career. In 2019 center He was sent from the Toronto Raptors to Memphis, where he completed the 2018-2019. season and have played in the last two years.
Last season was the best in J.Valančiūnas career. In the ranks of “Grizliai”, an average Lithuanian takes 28 minutes. he scored after 17.1 points, rebounded after 12.5 balls, delivered after 1.9 assists and missed after a 0.9 pitch.
The Grizzlies broke the Golden State Warriors in the NBA playoffs, and put up arms to the Utah Jazz 1: 4 in the first round of the playoffs.
Photo by Scanpix / Jonas Valančiūnas
Prior to the 2019-2020 season, the JV with Grizzlies totaled $ 45 million over three years. The contract was worth a dollar, so according to a preliminary plan, the tall man from Memphis had to play at least one more year.
In the next season, according to the contract, J. Valančiūnas will earn 14 million. AMERICAN DOLLAR.
The Pelicans won just 31 wins and 41 losses last season, and the West didn’t even make it to the NBA qualifiers (11th place), so the club has made a change this offseason, with Willie Green replacing Stan. Van Gundy. as head coach.
As in Memphis, in New Orleans J. Valančiūnas will work with very talented young people: Pelicans is directed by basketball players such as Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram or the aforementioned L. Ball.
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