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The Chicago Bulls, Minnesota Timberwolves and Detroit Pistons agreed to a three-team trade Tuesday involving four players and a pick swap.
According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Bulls are receiving guard Mike Conley Jr. from the T-Wolves and guard Jaden Ivey from the Pistons, the Pistons are receiving wing Kevin Huerter and forward Dario Šarić from the Bulls, and the Pistons are also receiving a 2026 first-round protected swap from the T-Wolves.
Per ESPN’s Bobby Marks, all four players involved in the trade are on expiring contracts, and Šarić can still be traded again before Thursday’s deadline because his salary “is going into an exception and not aggregated.”
Conley, 38, is in the midst of his 19th NBA season, and he has spent the past four in Minnesota.
A one-time All-Star, Conley owns career averages of 13.7 points, 5.6 assists, 2.9 rebounds, 1.6 three-pointers made and 1.3 steals in 1,216 games. In 44 games this season, Conley is averaging a career-low 4.4 points, 2.9 assists and 1.8 rebounds per contest.
The No. 5 overall pick in the 2022 NBA draft out of Purdue, Ivey has spent his entire four-year career in Detroit thus far.
After averaging a career-high 17.6 points per game last season before breaking his left fibula in January, Ivey’s role was severely diminished this season, resulting in him averaging 8.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 16.8 minutes per game.
The Pistons, who lead the Eastern Conference with a 36-12 record, landed a pair of potential rotation pieces in Huerter and Šarić as part of the deal.
Huerter, 27, is averaging 10.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.6 three-pointers made per game this season, while shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 31.4 percent from beyond the arc.
The former Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings and Bulls guard owns a career scoring average of 11.6 points per game over eight NBA seasons.
Šarić, 31, was shipped from Sacramento to Chicago on Sunday as part of a three-team deal that sent Dennis Schröder and Keon Ellis from the Kings to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In five games with the Kings this season, Šarić averaged 1.0 point and 1.2 rebounds. He did not appear in a game for the Bulls before getting flipped to the Pistons.
For his career, Šarić boasts averages of 10.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.3 three-pointers made per game over nine seasons.