{"id":412003,"date":"2023-02-09T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412003"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:49:58","slug":"clippers-trade-wall-to-rockets-in-three-team-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/clippers-trade-wall-to-rockets-in-three-team-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers trade Wall to Rockets in three-team deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former No. 1 pick John Wall is headed back to the Houston Rockets as the focal point of a three-team swap less than an hour before Thursday\u2019s NBA trade deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Wall just got traded back to Houston \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s0MbcLJ54L\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s0MbcLJ54L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNBACentral\/status\/1623762392730550274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Clippers are sending the veteran point guard, who averaged 11.4 points and 5.2 assists in 34 games this season, back to his previous team.<\/p>\n<p>Wall played the 2020\u201321 season for Houston and sat out the following season while under contract to the Rockets as the team sought to trade him.<\/p>\n<p>He agreed to a contract buyout with Houston last June and subsequently signed a two-year, $13.2 million deal with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, longtime NBA swingman Eric Gordon, who averaged 13.1 points in 47 games, headed from the Rockets back to the Clippers, the team that originally drafted him in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting guard Luke Kennard, a sixth-year pro, moves from the Clippers to the Grizzlies. Veteran sharpshooter Danny Green leaves the Grizzlies to join the Clippers, who also receive three second-round draft picks in the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former No. 1 pick John Wall is headed back to the Houston Rockets as the focal point of a three-team swap less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412004,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,17188],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Eric Gordon headed from the Rockets back to the Clippers,","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412003"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412003"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}