According to reports, Hornets trading Jusuf Nurkic with jazz for Collin Sexton, Draft Pick
Charlotte Hornets are the Jusuf Nurkic shopping center at Utah Jazz for the Collin Sexton Guard and a choice of the second round in 2031, Reports Shams Charania by Espn.
With Sexton, the Hornets add another perimeter marker to a list that already presents Lamelo Ball, Brandon Miller and the attacker who just enlisted Kon Knueppel, who have Duke out with choice n. 4 in the draft last week. Sexton projects to get out of the bench behind Ball and Miller and provide the Hornets with a secondary director of the ball often incredible.
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The trade will leave Charlotte thin at the pole after the Hornets exchanged the Mark Williams Center at the Phoenix Suns on the Draft night. The agreement could open a route for the minutes for the Rookie Center of the second round Ryan Kalkbrenner, who was enrolled last week with choice n. 34.
Collin Sexton joins the Hornets for his third NBA stop after playing jazz and knights. (Matt Krohn/Getty Images)
(Matt Krohn via Getty Images)
Nurkic joins a jazz team that presents the growing professional of the fourth year Walker Kessler as the starting center. Nurkic only played 26 games in Charlotte after having arrived at the Hornets before the seasonal commercial deadline from Suns.
Sexton, 26, scored on average 18.4 points and 4.2 assists last season while shooting 48% from the floor and 40.6% from the distance of 3 points in 63 games, including 61 departures. Nurkic scored on average 8.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game while shooting 47.7% from the floor and 30.5% from 3 in 51 games with Hornets and Suns, 32 of which had started.
Both players are playing expiring contracts. Sexton is scheduled for $ 19 million in 2025-26 and a free agent will arrive the following offseason without a new agreement. Nurkic is due $ 19.4 million in the last season of his contract.