The Pacers, Sixers and Spurs have folded a pair of separate trade agreements into a single transaction, announcing in a series of press releases that the deals sending Buddy Hield to Philadelphia and Doug McDermott to Indiana have been officially completed as a three-team trade.
The Pacers initially agreed to acquire Marcus Morris, Furkan Korkmaz, three second-round picks and cash from Philadelphia in exchange for Hield, then reached a deal to flip Morris and one of those second-rounders to San Antonio for McDermott. Those two pieces will go directly to the Spurs instead, with the Sixers also sending cash to San Antonio.
Here are the full details:
- Sixers acquire Hield.
- Pacers acquire McDermott, Korkmaz, the Raptors’ 2024 second-round pick (from Sixers), the Trail Blazers’ 2029 second-round pick (from Sixers), and cash ($1.5M; from Sixers).
- Spurs acquire Morris, the Clippers’ 2029 second-round pick (from Sixers) and cash (from Sixers).
The 2024 second-round pick going from Philadelphia to Indiana technically includes “most favorable” language and could come from a different team, but there’s essentially no chance it won’t be Toronto’s second-rounder, given their place in the standings.
Folding the two trades into one deal doesn’t materially change much, but it will introduce one notable new wrinkle. If Morris had been traded to Indiana, then sent to San Antonio in a separate deal, he would’ve been eligible to re-sign with the Sixers in the event the Spurs buy him out. However, due to the structure of the deal, he now won’t be permitted to sign with Philadelphia if he’s waived by San Antonio.
A player is prohibited from rejoining a team that traded him if his new team waives him, but if he’s traded twice before being cut, he’s only ineligible to join the club that traded him most recently.
For more details on the Hield and McDermott deals, check out our full stories on the trade agreements.
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