{"id":4691,"date":"2017-02-23T00:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2017-02-23T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T05:44:51","slug":"bogdanovic-to-the-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/02\/23\/bogdanovic-to-the-wizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets Trade Bojan Bogdanovic to Washington Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA silly season continues as the trade deadline rapidly approaches. The <a>Washington Wizards<\/a>\u00a0consider themselves as Eastern Conference contenders. To this end, they want to strengthen their team, especially their bench. On Wednesday, the Wizards agreed to a trade with the\u00a0<a>Brooklyn Nets <\/a>which will send Croatian sniper <strong><a>Bojan Bogdanovic<\/a><\/strong> to\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Nets Trade Bojan Bogdanovic to Washington Wizards<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Trade Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Brooklyn Nets are trading Bojan Bogdanovic to the Washington Wizards, league sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/834507291441389570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nets are sending Bogdanovic and Chris McCullough to the Wizards for Andrew Nicholson and a 2017 first-round pick, sources tell @TheVertical.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/834507803050000384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Washington&#39;s Marcus Thornton joins Nicholson in the trade package to Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/834508927463219201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To recap, the Nets are sending Bogdanovic and <strong><a>Chris McCullough<\/a><\/strong> to the Wizards for\u00a0<strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nichoan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Nicholson<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachLowe_NBA\/status\/834510229228380160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lottery protected\u00a0<\/a>first-round pick, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of <em>The Vertical<\/em>. Additionally,\u00a0<strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=thornma01,thornma02&amp;search=Marcus+Thornton&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Thornton<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0will return to the Nets as part of the deal. Thornton played for Brooklyn during the 2013-14 season. However, the Nets are expected to waive Thornton\u00a0shortly, per Wojnarowski.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Brooklyn&#8217;s Perspective<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Throughout the season,\u00a0Nets GM <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marksse01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Marks<\/a><\/strong><\/strong> has worked to acquire assets. This is key to Marks&#8217; philosophy and plan. As it stands currently, the Nets now own two first-round picks in the 2017 draft, and Marks will try to accumulate even more. That&#8217;s especially relevant because the upcoming draft is projected to be loaded with prospects. Some pundits say it may rival the famed 1984 and 1996 drafts in terms of talent. In Nicholson, the Nets receive a\u00a0power forward. With regards to salary cap space, Nicholson signed a four-year contract worth $26\u00a0million last summer. He&#8217;ll have a chance to rejuvenate his career in his third NBA destination.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Washington&#8217;s Perspective<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To shore up the Wizards rotation, team\u00a0President and GM <strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grunfer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ernie Grunfeld<\/a><\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0has acquired Bogdanovic, a sharpshooting swingman. Bogdandovic will be counted on to provide timely shooting and spacing. He\u00a0is durable and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2016\/09\/09\/bojan-bogdanovic-primed-breakout\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been consistent for the Nets throughout this challenging season<\/a>. The Wizards also add McCollough, a forward\/center. McCullough is a rangy defender and provides an inside presence. He has split time between the Nets and their NBA D-League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. During his time in Long Island, McCullough worked tirelessly on his offense.<\/p>\n<p>Expect both organizations to try to make more moves as Thursday&#8217;s\u00a0trade deadline approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/469883644\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 71.212121% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/469883644?et=rxV3_6jhR95twYfSNd1F3w&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=NqaP6D157PQ-NdJe2_ppDfOaEygM2_ck8ywxq3biD9g=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"423\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brooklyn Nets trade Bojan Bogdanovic, a Croatian sniper on the wing, to the Washington Wizards, as NBA silly season continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,3,18],"tags":[761,65,237,231,760,762,96,309],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nets","category-nba","category-news","category-wizards","tag-andrew-nicholson","tag-basketball","tag-bojan-bogdanovic","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-chris-mccullough","tag-marcus-thornton","tag-nba","tag-washington-wizards"],"modified_by":"Lior Kozai (Managing Editor)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}