{"id":888194,"date":"2026-09-08T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888194\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:20:16","slug":"pelicans-ship-hawkins-peavy-to-grizzlies-for-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888194\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans ship Hawkins, Peavy to Grizzlies for Johnson,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Pelicans traded guards Jordan Hawkins and Micah Peavy to the Memphis Grizzlies for guard AJ Johnson and veteran big Taj Gibson, the teams announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans are also sending a second-round pick and a second-round pick swap to the Grizzlies. The trade opens a roster spot for New Orleans and creates the financial flexibility to seal Bennedict Mathurin&#8217;s two-year, $16-million deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49868291\/sources-pelicans-trade-jordan-hawkins-grizzlies-4-player-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a> adds.<\/p>\n<p>The trade saves the Pelicans $5.7 million in salary, according to ESPN&#8217;s Bobby Marks.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 lottery pick, Hawkins joins Memphis following a three-year spell in New Orleans. The 24-year-old&#8217;s usage declined in 2025-26, and he recorded career lows in points (5.1), rebounds (1.7), and minutes (13.6).<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans took Peavy with the 40th pick in the 2025 draft. He appeared in 61 games as a rookie, averaging 4.3 points in 15 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 21, has now been traded three times in the calendar year and four times since being selected 23rd overall in the 2024 draft by the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Gibson, 41, is the NBA&#8217;s second-oldest active player behind LeBron James and joins the ninth franchise of his 17-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Pelicans traded guards Jordan Hawkins and Micah Peavy to the Memphis Grizzlies for guard AJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-888194","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\/888194","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=888194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}