Here’s your blockbuster-ish trade, folks.
In one of the biggest Woj Bomb of the day, the Detroit Pistons, Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz agreed to a three-team deal that centered around Enes Kanter and Reggie Jackson.
According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, Jackson will head to the Pistons, Kendrick Perkins will go to the Utah Jazz and the Thunder will get Kanter and Kyle Singler
"The Oklahoma City Thunder have reached agreement to trade guard Reggie Jackson to the Detroit Pistons in a multi-team trade that will send Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter to the Thunder, league sources told Yahoo Sports.As part of the trade, the Thunder will send center Kendrick Perkins to the Jazz, sources told Yahoo. The Thunder also will get guard Kyle Singler from the Pistons."
According to ESPN, the Thunder also add point guard D.J. Augustin and sharpshooter Steve Novak.
Per Jody Genessy of Deseret News, Perkins’ contract will be bought out.
Utah will get the draft rights to 25-year-old center Tibor Pleiss of Liga ACB fame.
The key to the trade: OKC gets a post-up player and Detroit receives a point guard for the future.
Jackson, 24, is currently averaging 12.8 points, 4.3 assists, 4.0 rebounds, 0.8 steals and 0.9 3-point field goals made on a slash line of .432/.278/.861 in 28.0 minutes. Driven by the way OKC lost James Harden, Jackson’s received the hype of a player with similar potential.
Per Wojnarowski, Jackson’s agent informed the Thunder that his client would prefer to be traded before becoming a free agent this coming summer. The working theory is that he can prove his upside elsewhere and earn more money.
Whether or not that rings true, Brooklyn seems to believe it is.
Kanter, meanwhile, is an offensively gifted big man with a decent post game and an expanded shot from beyond the arc. He was in a crowded frontcourt with Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert, and will now be OKC’s go-to interior offensive option.
He’s currently averaging 13.8 points and 7.8 rebounds on a slash line of .491/.317/.788 in 27.1 minutes per contest.
For whatever the reason may be, Utah didn’t seem to have any intention of re-signing Kanter.
OKC also gets D.J. Augustin, who’s averaging 10.6 points and 4.9 assists in 23.8 minutes per contest. In 13 starts, however, his numbers have jumped all the way up to 18.7 points and 7.8 assists in 34.7 minutes.
Jackson will be missed, but Augustin provides a similar impact.
All in all, the trade looks like this:
More draft picks are expected to be revealed.