Ja Morant had almost no trade market at deadline, but Bucks could have interest this summer
From Memphis’ perspective, they had been open to buying and selling a two-time All-Star who has averaged 19.5 factors and eight.1 assists a sport this season. They needed some worth again in any deal.
That’s not how different groups seen buying and selling for Ja Morant, whose harm and suspension historical past has restricted him to twenty video games this season, and he hasn’t performed six consecutive video games in three years. Throw in the truth that he’s owed $87 million over the subsequent two years, and groups had been solely prepared to take him on if it was basically a wage dump, or if the Grizzlies included a choose, one thing Jake Fischer wrote about at The Stein Line Newsletter on Substack.
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“Memphis’ Ja Morant just didn’t have much of a trade market no matter how seriously the Grizzlies explored their options for sending him elsewhere.
“Sources say Sacramento solely ever confirmed modest interest. I’m advised Miami, too, solely inquired about Morant with the concept of buying him in a deal just like Washington’s asset-light acquisition of Trae Young. And the Heat, sources say, weren’t actively pursuing Morant within the days main as much as the deadline as a result of Antetokounmpo had change into their main goal.”
Morant will be back on the trade market this summer and one option could be a desperate Milwaukee Bucks team looking for a big swing trade that would inspire Giannis Antetokounmpo to sign his extension and stay in Milwaukee.
“One situation that must be filed away — for all of the justified questions on match — is the prospect of Milwaukee buying and selling for Morant. Numerous groups got here away from the deadline believing that the Bucks’ interest in Morant was real … whether or not that was to put in him as their eventual successor to Antetokounmpo as Face of the Franchise or as a result of they consider they could really make a Giannis-and-Ja pairing job.”
Morant in Milwaukee appears an odd match, but it is one thing to look at. This goes to be a wild summer within the NBA and Morant in a Bucks uniform wouldn’t be the craziest factor we are going to see.
