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The Wizards tried to send away the former Celtics super gate, but no team was interested in him?

1:35am, 18 June 2025Basketball

According to the news from Hardwood Paroxysm reporter Matt Moore, the Washington Wizards hope to trade the team's backcourt veteran Marcus Smart to a competitive team, but so far, almost no one is interested in the deal. Matt Moore also said that according to his expectations, in the middle and late stages of the free agent market, some teams may turn their attention to Smart when they fail to pursue their preferred goals, and he may become one of the trading targets that these teams are interested in.

In the NBA regular season this season, Smart played 34 times for the Memphis Grizzlies and Wizards, averaging 20 minutes per game, with averaging 9 points, 2.1 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.3 blocks, and 1.6 turnovers and 1.6 fouls. His shooting percentage was 39.3%, his three-point shooting percentage was 34.8%, and his free throw shooting percentage was 76.1%. Smart's performance this season is really terrible. His offensive efficiency is a mess, his scoring ability is seriously insufficient, and he has also experienced a huge decline in passing and organization. The most important thing is that as an excellent outside defender, his contribution to the defensive end has declined significantly, and his role on the court is also very limited.

is also because of its poor performance. Smart was sent to the Wizards by the Grizzlies before the trading deadline of this season. After joining the Wizards, Smart's performance has improved to a certain extent, but after all, the Wizards are in the reconstruction period, and the team's competitiveness on both offense and defense is seriously insufficient. In this case, it is reasonable for experienced Smart to brush out some data, not to mention that his data in this case is also not very outstanding.

Judging from the contract situation, next season is Smart's contract year, and his salary in the next season is $21.59 million. Although it is an expiring contract, Smart's performance last season was really too bad, and he is undoubtedly a garbage contract. For the playoff level teams, with Smart's current state and his salary level, unless they trade him with a more junk contract than him, Smart at the current salary level will only put huge salary pressure on these teams and lead to a decline in the overall competitiveness of the team. We can understand that the Wizards hope to squeeze out Smart's final value. But they did not pay any price or substantial bargaining chips in the process of getting Smart. They really believe that they can get some future bargaining chips by sending Smart away?

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