Former Los Angeles Lakers and current New Orleans Pelicans guard Josh Hart is one of the more active NBA players when it comes to Twitter engagement. Wasting absolutely no time as ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski broke some major trade news on Monday evening.
According to the ESPN report, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Utah Jazz have executed a trade that will see the teams swap guards in Jordan Clarkson and Dante Exum.
Cleveland has agreed to trade Jordan Clarkson to Utah for Dante Exum, league sources tell ESPN.
â Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 23, 2019
It is safe to say that Hart is excited, intrigued and perhaps a little cautious about the upcoming trade season that will briefly take over the NBA landscape.
â Josh Hart (@joshhart) December 24, 2019
Wojnarowski is also reporting that Utah will be sending two future second round picks back to Cleveland in to complete the trade involving the aforementioned guard tandem of Clarkson and Exum.
âJordan Clarkson is on expiring contract with a $13.4M cap hit,â writes ESPN's Bobby Marks. âDante Exum has two years left at $9.6M per year. Cleveland will create a $3.83M trade exception and will also go from $1.3M to $5.1M below the luxury tax.â
As for Hart, the former Lakers and current Pelicans guard is no stranger to being traded with such a deal being broadcasted throughout social media â and specifically Twitter. Hart was infamously traded to the Pelicans from the Lakers as part of the package that saw superstar big man Anthony Davis make his way to Los Angeles this past offseason.
Not only was Hart traded, but the deal was widely discussed throughout Twitter for weeks on end with Wojnarowski initially breaking the news to the world.