Washington Wizards to get Spencer Dinwiddie in a signing and swapping deal; Guardian to sign $ 60 million 3-year contract

The Washington Wizards and Brooklyn Nets have agreed to terms of a signing and trade deal that will send Spencer Dinwiddie to Washington on Wednesday night, league sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The deal, which will see Dinwiddie receive a three-year contract worth nearly $ 60 million from the Wizards, will send two second-round picks – the most favorable of the Memphis Grizzlies and Washington’s second-round picks in 2024 , and the Golden State Warriors and Wizards in 2025, to the Nets, who will also receive an $ 11.5 million trade exception as part of the deal.

Washington will also send forward Chandler Hutchison to the San Antonio Spurs, with a 2022 second-round pick, sources said in Wojnarowski, allowing the Wizards to stay out of the luxury tax for next season.

Those two moves will be incorporated into what is now a five-team trade that will ultimately send Russell Westbrook to the Los Angeles Lakers. In the deal, the Lakers received Westbrook; The Wizards will now host Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Montrezl Harrell from the Lakers, a second-round pick in last week’s NBA Draft who became G League forward Ignite Isaiah Todd and point guard Aaron Holiday from the Lakers. Indiana Pacers; and Dinwiddie of the Nets.

The first-round pick the Lakers initially agreed to send to Washington, the No.22 pick in last week’s draft, has been rerouted to the Pacers for Kentucky forward Isaiah Jackson. The Spurs will get Hutchison and the second-round pick, while the Nets will be left with the two second-rounds and the trade exception. The whole deal won’t be formalized until Friday, when the league’s annual moratorium on signings and trades is lifted, for salary cap purposes.

Dinwiddie, 28, has just finished a season where he only played three games for the Nets after partially tearing his ACL in December, an injury that required end-of-season surgery. Still, Dinwiddie completely revitalized his career after arriving in Brooklyn in December 2016, spending the last five seasons with the Nets and becoming a player who has scored over 20 points and distributed over six assists per game during the season 2019-2020.

But with the Nets heavily involved in the luxury tax and with a roster now including Kyrie Irving and James Harden in the backcourt, keeping Dinwiddie in Brooklyn has never been a realistic outcome.

Instead, he will now replace Westbrook in Washington, where the Wizards are hoping their active offseason can help convince superstar Bradley Beal to stay in Washington for the long term. Beal is eligible to sign a contract extension later this year and may become a free agent next summer. The Wizards completely remade their roster in the span of a week, bringing in five veterans and two rookies to Corey Kispert and Todd while creating future salary flexibility, in a bid to move the franchise forward after a first-round exit. of this playoffs of the year.

“Now that is no longer acceptable,” Wizards general manager Tommy Sheppard told reporters after the Philadelphia 76ers’ first round outing. We have to be a lot better next season and we will. “

Washington also left coach Scott Brooks, whose contract expired after the season, and hired former Denver Nuggets assistant Wes Unseld Jr. – the son of Washington Bullets and Hall of Fame legend – on last month.

Hutchison, 25, was the 22nd pick for the Chicago Bulls in the 2018 NBA Draft. He came to Washington on a three-team contract shortly before the NBA trade deadline in March with center Daniel Gafford, and averaged 4.3 points in 25 games for the Bulls and Wizards last season.

ESPN NBA front office insider Bobby Marks contributed to this report.