Utah Jazz trading Joe Ingles as part of 3-team deal

Utah Jazz guard Joe Ingles goes previous Minnesota Timberwolves defenders throughout an NBA recreation at Vivint Area in Salt Lake Metropolis on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021.

Shafkat Anowar, Deseret Information

The Utah Jazz are reportedly a part of a three-team commerce forward of Thursday’s NBA commerce deadline.

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported Wednesday afternoon that the Jazz have agreed to a cope with the Portland Path Blazers and San Antonio Spurs that can see Utah ship Joe Ingles, Elijah Hughes and a second-round draft choose to the Path Blazers.

The Deseret Information has confirmed the deal.

League sources affirm Utah Jazz three-team deal to be completed with POR and SAS. Receiving Nickeil Alexander-Walker from Blazers, Juancho Hernangomez from Spurs. Jazz ship Joe Ingles, Elijah Hughes, and a second to POR and a second to SAS.

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In return, the Jazz will get guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker from Portland and ahead Juancho Hernangomez from San Antonio.

The Spurs will get guard Tomas Satoransky from Portland and a second-round choose from the Jazz.

It has lengthy been figured that Utah would attempt to commerce Ingles earlier than Thursday’s deadline, as his $13 million contract expires on the finish of this season.

His recreation has declined some however he was nonetheless seen as a participant who might assist a crew earlier than he suffered a season-ending ACL tear final month.

Nonetheless, it was nonetheless believed that he may very well be traded to a crew that was seeking to get off some wage in future years due to his expiring deal.

Hughes has not made a lot of an impression after being the thirty ninth choose within the 2020 draft, and the picks the Jazz despatched have been extra value of shifting Ingles’ wage.

A few different gamers concerned within the deal have already been traded as soon as earlier than this week.

Each Alexander-Walker and Satoransky have been a part of the deal that noticed CJ McCollum get traded by Portland to the New Orleans Pelicans.

Alexander-Walker, 23, is a 6-foot-5, 205-pound guard who was the seventeenth general choose within the 2019 draft.

In three seasons, he has averages of 9.9 factors, 2.7 rebounds and a couple of.3 assists per recreation.

Hernangomez, 26, is a 6-foot-9, 214-pound ahead who was the fifteenth general choose within the 2016 draft.

He has additionally already been traded as soon as this season, because the Boston Celtics despatched him to San Antonio final month.

He has profession averages of 5.3 factors and three.4 rebounds per recreation.