{"id":507821,"date":"2026-02-03T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=507821"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T19:20:20","slug":"grizzlies-trade-forward-jackson-jr-to-jazz-in-7-player-exchange","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/grizzlies-trade-forward-jackson-jr-to-jazz-in-7-player-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies trade forward Jackson Jr. to Jazz in 7-player exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies are trading one of the team\u2019s best players, Jaren Jackson Jr., to the Utah Jazz as part of a 7-player exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis will get Walter Clayton Jr., Kyle Anderson, Taylor Hendricks, Georges Niang, and 3 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round selections at the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Utah also acquired Jock Landale and Vince Williams Jr. in the trade, which was completed 48 hours before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Jaren, who is 26 years old, is a 2-time All-Star and was the NBA&#8217;s Defensive Player of the Year in 2022-23. The former Grizzlies star has 3 seasons remaining on a 5-year, 205 million dollar contract that also features a player option for the 2029-30 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He will join the rebuilding Utah team that has 3rd-year guard Keyonte George, rookie Ace Bailey, and 4<sup>th<\/sup>-year center Walker Kessler, who will not play again in the current campaign because of a shoulder problem.<\/p>\n<p>Utah leader Lauri Markannen, the league\u2019s 8<sup>th<\/sup>-leading scorer in the current season, has been widely speculated to be traded, but now he can remain with the Jazz and try to build chemistry with Jaren as a formidable frontcourt duo on the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JAREN JACKSON JR. TRADED TO THE JAZZ FOR THREE FIRST ROUND PICKS \ud83d\udea8 <\/p>\n<p>(per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zkzfv4qKM1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Zkzfv4qKM1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Overtime (@overtime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/overtime\/status\/2018758475485245945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies are trading one of the team\u2019s best players, Jaren Jackson Jr., to the Utah Jazz as part of a 7-player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":507822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16884],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[17838],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Memphis traded its star to Utah in a blockbuster deal.","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\/507821"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507823,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/507821\/revisions\/507823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507821"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=507821"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=507821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}