A few hours before the opening of the Free Agency (Friday evening at midnight), some NBA franchises are sending some signals to the competition. The Pelicans? We are no longer even on a signal but squarely on a dark red level alert: Jonas Valanciunas is on the transfer market!
Slightly down in scoring last season but still the owner of a solid double-double average (14.1 points and 10.2 rebounds), Jonas Valanciunas therefore understood today, like us, that he was no longer making part of the project in New Orleans. A potential starter for ten years in the NBA, Jonas is a rock, a tough rock and who has even learned to shoot further and further over time, but far from being a mobile interior and therefore corresponding to the standards of 2023 .
On the Pels side, we are currently counting on youth and “freakery” (Brandon Ingram, Herb Jones, Trey Murphy III), we are waiting to find out what direction Zion Williamson’s career will take and we are taking advantage of CJ’s XP McCollum… but Jonas, good old Jonas, has become out of the ordinary in the Louisiana bayou. With 15 million salary to be collected next year Jojo is not a “rotten board” but rather a good match it seems, and his free-agent status in the summer of 2024 makes him a target quite interesting. The latest news from elsewhere, the Pels have contacted the cavs about an exchange concerning JoVa and Jarrett Allen.
In short ? The Pels have just sent a signal and could very well recover interesting assets against their brave Lithuanian pivot. And given the timing, it could all happen… within the next 48 hours.
Source texte : Jake Fischer – Yahoo Sports
2023-06-27 20:22:00
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