The Los Angeles Clippers will be swapping wing players with the Memphis Grizzlies but giving up a first round pick in the process.
Lance Stephenson will be going to the Grizzlies for Jeff Green, reuniting Green and his former head coach with the Boston Celtics in Doc Rivers.
Dan Woike of the Orange County Register reports the following.
Source: Lance Stephenson has been traded to Memphis
— Dan Woike (@DanWoikeSports) February 18, 2016
Zach Lowe of ESPN reports that Jeff Green and the draft pick end of the deal.
Clippers have acquired Jeff Green, sources say.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) February 18, 2016
Believe this is a heavily-protected 2019 first-rounder. Grizz have been trying to move Green for a while. https://t.co/sUkQLBnZbB
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) February 18, 2016
For the Clippers, it finally gives them a legit small forward to start instead of what they have been doing with Stephenson and Paul Pierce this season and sprinkles of Wesley Johnson and Luc Richard Mbah-Moute. Green will almost immediately start for the Clippers.
The Grizzlies immediately become the most dangerous team in the NBA but not because of their skill but because of the actual players they have on the team. Stephenson joins an interesting group that has Zach Randolph, Tony Allen, Matt Barnes, Chris ‘Birdman’ Andersen and P.J. Hairston. All players who have checkered pasts. All players who do not mind getting physical for no reason at all.
