The Clippers, Nets,and Pistons have agreed to a trade, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter links).
Wojnarowski and Charania report that Brooklyn will acquire Landry Shamet in the three-team trade, with Luke Kennard going to the Clippers and the Pistons acquiring Rodney McGruder and the No. 19 overall pick in Wednesday’s draft (Twitter link). Detroit selected Villanova forward Saddiq Bey using that selection.
The Clippers are betting that Kennard, who averaged 15.8 PPG on .442/.399/.893 shooting in 28 games for Detroit last season, will be an upgrade on Shamet. who recorded 9.3 PPG on .404/.375/.855 shooting in 53 games.
The Clippers also discussed a bigger trade with the Celtics that included Shamet, Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo tweets.
Kennard has a slightly less favorable contract than Shamet — he’s extension-eligible this fall and will be a restricted free agent in 2021 if he doesn’t sign a new deal. He’ll earn $5.3M in 2020-21. Shamet, meanwhile, will earn $2M in ’20-21 and $3.8M in ’21-22 before potentially reaching restricted free agency in 2022.
Kennard is coming off an injury-marred season in which he played just 28 games due to tendinitis in both knees. However, he looked completely healthy during the team’s workouts in September.
Shamet provides another rotation guard for the Nets at a reasonable salary.
Bey is the third first-round pick by Detroit. It earlier selected Euro guard Killian Hayes at No. 7 and Washington center Isaiah Stewart at No. 16.
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