The trading season is coming, with the Detroit Pistons and Oklahoma City Thunder delivering the first deal, two weeks before the March 25 deadline. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported the switch, which will send Thunder’s winger Hamidou Diallo to the Pistons for striker Svi Mykhailiuk and a 2027 choice in the second round.
Oklahoma City is swapping point guard Hamidou Diallo with Detroit for striker Svi Mykhailiuk and a second-round pick in 2027, sources told ESPN.
– Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 13, 2021
Crowned champion of the 2019 NBA All Star Slam Dunk Contest, Diallo is currently in his third season after being chosen with the 45th choice in 2018.
He has averaged 11.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists this season, now taking his talent to Motown, where he will meet with former Thunder teammate Jerami Grant.
Thunder chose another draft asset and Mykhailiuk, of Ukrainian origin, who will run for his third team in a few years, initially written by the Los Angeles Lakers in choice 47 – two spots after Diallo – in 2018.
Mykhailiuk is averaging 6.9 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists this season.