David Cobb of Utah is sending Grayson Allen, Kyle Korver, Jae Crowder and draft compensation to Memphis for Mike Conley Jr., league sources tell The Jazz will send a protected 2020 first-round pick to the Grizzlies, league sources tell ESPN.
Conley has spent every season of his 12 year career in Memphis, who drafted him 4th overall in 2007. teen who organized BLM rally gets bill for police overtimeCensorship on social media? By Brian Pascus June 19, 2019 / 3:49 PM / CBS News Zach Randolph and Tony Allen left in 2017 as free agents, and Memphis traded Marc Gasol to Toronto in February, splitting up a duo that had been the NBA's longest-tenured teammates. I never could beat him. The Grizzlies, meanwhile, are in the midst of a rebuild, and they're expected to select another point guard — Murray State star Ja Morant — in Thursday's draft.This marks the official end of the Grit-N-Grind era in Memphis, as Conley, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph and Tony Allen are all no longer with the organization. The Utah Jazz are the next team this summer to pull off a reported big trade.Wojnarowski reports the Jazz will send a protected 2020 first-round pick to the Grizzlies, which will convey as a late lottery pick in 2020 or 2021 or become a lightly protected pick from 2022-24. 23 pick in 2019 NBA Draft, future first-round pick. Memphis is home. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Gasol went on to help the Raptors win their first NBA title.The trade cannot be completed until the new league year starts on July 6.The move almost certainly means that Ricky Rubio will be elsewhere next season, even after he averaged 12.7 points and 6.1 assists for the Jazz this season. The Memphis Grizzlies traded away the final piece of the franchise's best years on Wednesday, sending veteran point guard Mike Conley to the Utah Jazz for a trio of players, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.The Grizzlies swapped Conley for Jae Crowder, Kyle Korver and Grayson Allen, said the person, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because neither Memphis nor Utah has announced the trade.ESPN.com first reported the deal, which it says also includes Utah's No. Time for another chapter! Always! He has Mitchell responded to Conley's tweet Wednesday welcoming him to the team. And the five-time defending Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors won't have Klay Thompson or Kevin Durant for much, if not all, of next season because of injuries — and it remains a possibility that both of those players will sign elsewhere this summer as well.The Grizzlies tried to trade Conley before the deadline but couldn't with the guard's pricey contract complicating deals. He was just off his career highs with 6.4 assists per game and averaged 1.3 steals per game.The Grizzlies are busy rebuilding after drafting Jaren Jackson Jr. with the fourth overall pick last year, and they hold the No. Excited to give all I have to The Jazz and Salt Lake City!
He is also the nephew of former American football linebacker Steve Conley. Second, adding Conley shores up playmaking and 3-point shooting for the Jazz -- two areas that have been weak points for the team over the last two seasons.The trade will become offcial on July 6, sources say.....The Jazz get the point guard they have long been targeting, and they are able to keep Derrick Favors in the process. Conley missed most of the 2017-18 season with a heel injury, but returned last season and played in 70 contests, posting a career-high 21.1 points per game. Conley, who turns 32 on Oct. 11, played only 12 games in 2017-18 because of a painful left heel that needed season-ending surgery. https://www.chron.com/sports/rockets/article/Source-Grizzlies-trade-guard-Mike-Conley-to-Jazz-14017978.php Mike Conley trade grades.