Breaking:
A three team trade has been completed between the Los Angeles Lakers, New Orleans Pelicans, and Atlanta Hawks.
The Los Angeles Lakers will be sending Luol Deng, Thomas Bryant, and two first round draft picks with protections (protections below) to the Atlanta Hawks for Deandre Bembry, Malcolm Delaney, Luke Babbit, Isaiah Taylor, and ATLs 2018 second round draft pick, and 750k in cash considerations from New Orleans.
Atlanta will be sending Ersan Ilyasova to New Orleans with a second round draft pick (Atlanta’s owned 2nd round pick that is the less favorable of LA and MIN in 2019). New Orleans will be utilizing their recently acquired trade exception to fit Ersan into their roster
Protections on the LA picks to Atlanta are as follows : First pick protected 1-8 in 2020, 1-5 in 2021, unprotected in 2022. The second pick will be 1-8 in 2022, 1-5 in 2023, unprotected in 2024. Conveyance of the second pick to begin two years after the first pick.
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http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y8h6ff7j) (But with Ersan fitting into New Orleans' TPE)