Trevor Ariza trade to Washington Wizards from Phoenix Suns in works, sources say - ESPN

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Adrian WojnarowskiESPN

The Washington Wizards have reached an agreement to acquire Phoenix Suns forward Trevor Ariza in a three-team deal, league sources said told ESPN on Friday night.

Washington is sending forward Kelly Oubre to Memphis in the deal, the sources said.

The Suns will acquire Wizards guard Austin Rivers and Memphis Grizzlies forwards MarShon Brooks and Wayne Selden, league sources said.

Memphis will also send Washington a 2020 second-round pick and a 2019 conditional second-round pick via Boston, the sources said.

The trade can be finalized on Saturday, the first day that 2019 free agent signees become trade eligible.

As part of the trade, Washington will create a $3.3 million trade exception. The Wizards also have a $5.45 million exception (along with a $1.3 million, $957,000 and $694,000 exception) that was created in the Jason Smith trade to Milwaukee.

Ariza and his agent, Aaron Mintz of CAA, had hoped that the Los Angeles Lakers could complete a deal with the Suns, but that became more difficult to navigate in recent days, league sources said.

Phoenix owner Robert Sarver became more sensitive about doing a deal with the Lakers in wake of the criticism that came with allowing center Tyson Chandler to get a contract buyout to join the Lakers last month, sources said. The Lakers had been eager to make a deal for Ariza.

Ariza, 33, played with the Wizards from 2012 to 2014, and has a good relationship with All-Star guard John Wall. He had considered the Wizards in summer free agency before signing a one-year, $15 million deal with Phoenix.

The Grizzlies are acquiring a fourth-year reserve in Oubre, who is averaging a career-high 13 points despite the bench role.

Information from ESPN's Bobby Marks was used in this report.

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