2023-06-18 21:05:00
With the Draft fast approaching, rumors have become more and more insistent in recent days, especially on the case of Bradley Beal, pending departure in Washington. The rumors gave way to concrete this Sunday: the All-Star back of the Wizards is transferred to the Phoenix Suns!
The NBA has a new Big Three, and it’s set in Cactus country.
Adrian Wojnarowski d’ESPN was the first to drop the bomb this Sunday evening. Bradley Beal has just been transferred to the Suns where he will join Kevin Durant and Devin Booker! Trade details? Here they are :
- The Suns recover: Bradley Beal
- The Wizards get in exchange: Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, multiple second-round draft picks and swap picks
BREAKING: The Washington Wizards are finalizing a trade to send All-Star G Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns, sources tell ESPN. Beal’s waiving his no-trade to form a new Big 3 with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. Teams are still working thru framework, but Beal is headed to Suns. pic.twitter.com/0lQrSh370q
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 18, 2023
A few details remain to be settled before we can fully finalize this blockbuster trade, but Bealou will continue his career in Arizona after 11 years in the American capital.
As a reminder, the All-Star fullback has a non-transfer clause in his contract, which allowed him to have a say in the various negotiations. Clearly, Beal sees the Suns as a team where he can accomplish his ultimate goal: winning the NBA title. At the same time, with KD, Booker or even Deandre Ayton at his side, the Suns will have a hell of a team on paper, even if financially it will sting hard (especially with the next CBA, these four weighing more than 160 million dollars). dollars) and that it will be necessary to find good role players to complete the workforce despite limited resources.
One thing is certain in any case: the new owner of the Suns Mat Ishbia is not afraid to make big moves to try to play the title, he who had already set up the transfer of Kevin Durant last February.
On the Washington side, the recent changes in the front office with the arrival of Michael Winger (president) and Will Dawkins (general manager) are therefore synonyms of reconstruction. To be honest, the tradeoff really isn’t crazy for the Wizards, who get no promising young players and no first-round draft picks in exchange for Bradley Beal. On the other hand, they largely gain in financial flexibility by getting rid of his five-year contract and 250 million dollars.
The end of the Bradley Beal era at the Wizards is in a transfer against a player who will not stay in Washington, an NPC, second rounds of the Draft and a pack of cigarettes.
Terrible.
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) June 18, 2023
Fun fact to finish: Bealou’s agent Mark Bartelstein is also the father of Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein. Something tells us that it played in the negotiations…
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Source texte : ESPN
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