{"id":158856,"date":"2026-02-01T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158856\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:22:08","slug":"sacramento-kings-trade-keon-ellis-and-dennis-schroder-for-deandre-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158856\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings trade Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder for De\u2019Andre Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings have traded Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder to the Cleveland Cavaliers for De\u2019Andre Hunter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47793616\/sources-cavs-trade-hunter-kings-schroder-ellis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report by Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal also includes the Chicago Bulls acquiring Dario Saric from the Kings, and two future second-round picks (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sam_amick\/status\/2017813088578466277?s=46&amp;t=wMUYOWsynNsJLMOGXXAjJw\" rel=\"nofollow\">2029 from the Kings and 2027 from the Cavs, according to Sam Amick<\/a>). It was <a href=\"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/articles\/report-keon-ellis-trade-almost-certain-before-trade-dealine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported recently<\/a> the Kings were looking for a late first round pick for Ellis.<\/p>\n<p>Schroder is owed $44 million on his three-year deal. Saric has an expiring $5.4 million deal. Ellis has an expiring $2.3 million deal. The Kings take on $48 million for Hunter\u2019s remaining two years of his deal.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is a 6\u20197\u2019\u2019 forward who can shoot and defend out on the wing. The 28-year-old is averaging 14 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 2.1 assists in 26 minutes. He was the 4th overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>We got a serviceable wing player\u2026two years too late, but hey, we got a wing.<\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to you, Keon. It was fun watching you grow as a player in Sacramento. Enjoy winning and the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings have traded Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder to the Cleveland Cavaliers for De\u2019Andre Hunter, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-158856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}