1:55pm: The Hield acquisition will certainly be a part of a five-team mega-trade involving Golden State, Dallas, Charlotte, Minnesota and Philadelphia, sources inform Anthony Slater of The Athletic (Twitter hyperlink).
1:19pm: The Warriors are buying Buddy Hield in a sign-and-trade with the Sixers, in line with Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium (Twitter hyperlink).
The second-rounder being despatched to the 76ers is being acquired as a part of the Klay Thompson sign-and-trade with the Mavs. That implies the sequence of strikes might nonetheless be folded collectively into one multi-team mega-deal.
Based on ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter hyperlink), Hield will obtain a four-year contract that may pay him a assured $18MM over the primary two seasons. The deal contains a partial assure of $3MM in yr three, whereas the fourth yr is a non-guaranteed participant choice. It can begin at $8.7MM, per The Athletic, which suggests the whole worth might be slightly over $37MM, assuming 5% annual raises.
Charania reported on Tuesday evening that the Warriors had been pursuing Hield, and now a sign-and-trade settlement has come to fruition.
In 2023/24, Hield appeared in a league-high 84 common season video games, exceeding the standard 82-game restrict on account of a midseason commerce that despatched him from Indiana to Philadelphia. He averaged 12.1 factors, 3.2 rebounds, and a couple of.8 assists in 25.7 minutes per sport for the Pacers and Sixers, with a .386 3PT%.
Hield, 31, has by no means been identified for his protection, however he’s a top-tier ground spacer, with a profession mark of 40.0% from lengthy distance (on excessive quantity). He ranked No. 24 on our listing of 2024’s prime 50 free brokers.
The Warriors have been very busy this offseason, agreeing to signal De’Anthony Melton to a one-year deal and to accumulate each Kyle Anderson and Hield within the wake of Thompson’s departure.
Hield is at the moment competing for his residence nation, the Bahamas, in an Olympic qualifying match in Spain. If the workforce wins the match (it has already superior to the semifinal), the Bahamas would advance to the 2024 Olympics in Paris, which start on the finish of July.
Cap skilled Yossi Gozlan tasks the Warriors, who’re hard-capped on the first tax apron, to be proper close to that wage threshold ($178.1MM) with 14 gamers beneath contract (Twitter hyperlink).
The Sixers received’t create a commerce exception as a part of the transaction, since they’re working beneath the cap.