{"id":454310,"date":"2026-02-04T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T23:39:08","slug":"sources-lonzo-ball-traded-to-jazz-to-become-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454310\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Lonzo Ball traded to Jazz, to become free agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Utah Jazz<\/a> have acquired Lonzo Ball<\/a> in a three-team trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> and Atlanta Hawks<\/a> but are expected to waive the veteran guard and allow him to become a free agent, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers sent Ball and two second-round picks to the Jazz, who also received cash considerations from the Hawks in exchange for center Jock Landale<\/a>, sources told Charania.<\/p>\n

Ball became expendable in Cleveland after the Cavs landed guards James Harden<\/a> and Dennis Schroder<\/a> in separate trades over the past week. Cleveland sheds significant salary and gains tax savings by parting with Ball, who will now be able to test free agency.<\/p>\n

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The three-team trade came one day after Utah pulled off a blockbuster trade to acquire Jaren Jackson Jr<\/a>. in an eight-player deal with the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>. Landale was dealt from Memphis to Utah as part of that deal.<\/p>\n

Ball made an unprecedented return from three arthroscopic knee surgeries last season, appearing in his first NBA game in over 1,000 days in October 2024. After a run of solid play, Ball was rewarded with a contract extension from the Chicago Bulls<\/a> and then over the summer was traded to the Cavaliers for Isaac Okoro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ball, 28, has struggled in Cleveland, however, averaging a career-low 4.6 points while shooting just 30% from the field and below 30% from 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz have acquired Lonzo Ball in a three-team trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-454310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}