{"id":738426,"date":"2026-07-02T06:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:55:23","slug":"grizzlies-trade-santi-aldama-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738426\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies trade Santi Aldama to Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The Memphis Grizzlies are not done making moves after trading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/06\/29\/grizzlies-trade-ja-morant-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/06\/29\/grizzlies-trade-ja-morant-portland\/\">Ja Morant to Portland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a> reports the Grizzlies are sending forward Santi Aldama to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for AJ Johnson, a 2030 first-round pick from the Warriors and two future second-round picks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Golden State pick is top-20 protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dallas also receives the draft rights to Tarik Biberovi\u0107, who the Grizzlies drafted in 2023 but has been playing in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aldama has emerged into a valuable role player for the Grizzlies in five years in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He averaged a career-high 14 points per game with nearly 7 rebounds in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Johnson has seen minimal action since being drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024 but started 11 games for the Wizards in 2024-25, scoring 9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; The Memphis Grizzlies are not done making moves after trading Ja Morant to Portland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[25058,4,25057,760,25053,143714,25056,6419,25051,13840,25050,25055,355,25054,25059,281085,25049,25060,99,447,25061,25052,25046,25048,25047],"class_list":["post-738426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bartlett","tag-breaking-news","tag-collierville","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-east-arkansas","tag-first-round-pick","tag-germantown","tag-grizzlies","tag-i-40","tag-memphis","tag-mid-south","tag-missouri-boothill","tag-nba","tag-north-mississippi","tag-olive-branch","tag-santi-aldama","tag-severe-weather","tag-southaven","tag-sports","tag-trade","tag-west-memphis","tag-west-tennessee","tag-wmc-action-news-5","tag-wmc5","tag-wmctv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}