Nets take flier on former top-10 pick Ziaire Williams in trade with Grizzlies
NY Post
The Nets are adding a former lottery pick to their rebuilding squad.
In a cost-cutting move by the Grizzlies, the Nets are acquiring small forward Ziaire Williams, the 10th overall pick in the 2021 draft.
Brooklyn also will receive a 2030 second-round pick via Dallas in the deal, while sending forward/center Mamadi Diakite and the draft rights to 31-year-old Serbian forward Nemanja Dangubic to Memphis.
Diakite had been included as salary filler from the Knicks in the Mikal Bridges blockbuster trade earlier this month.
Williams, who will earn $6.1 million in the final season of his rookie contract in 2024-25, averaged 8.2 points and shot just 30.7 percent from 3-point range in 20.4 minutes per game over 51 appearances last year for the Grizzlies.
The 22-year-old Stanford product is eligible for a rookie extension until Oct. 21.
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