The Sacramento Kings are buying and selling former lottery choose Davion Mitchell, Sasha Vezenkov and the forty fifth choose within the NBA draft on Thursday to the Toronto Raptors in alternate for Jalen McDaniels, sources informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The deal will get the Kings underneath the posh tax and opens a roster spot.
Mitchell, the No. 9 general choose within the 2021 draft, averaged 5.3 factors, 1.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists in 15.3 minutes per recreation for the Kings this previous season. The purpose guard’s greatest season got here in his rookie 12 months, when he averaged 11.5 factors.
Vezenkov, a ahead who was a second-round choose in 2017, averaged 5.4 factors and a couple of.3 rebounds this season — his first within the NBA.
McDaniels, a ahead who entered the league as a second-round choose of the Charlotte Hornets in 2019, averaged 3.4 factors and 1.6 rebounds in 10.8 minutes per recreation final season. His greatest season got here in 2022-23, when he was averaging 10.6 factors with the Hornets when he was dealt to the Philadelphia 76ers on the commerce deadline.
