To finish the three-team blockbuster commerce that despatched Luka Doncic to the Lakers and Anthony Davis to the Mavericks, the Jazz have formally waived heart Mohamed Bamba, who was acquired on Saturday in a separate take care of the Clippers.
Utah introduced the transfer in a press release.
As ESPN’s Bobby Marks notes, the Jazz wanted to create a gap on their commonplace roster to accumulate Jalen Hood-Schifino from the Lakers. Bamba was the odd man out.
A former lottery decide, Bamba was unable to carve out a constant position in his four-plus seasons with Orlando, the crew that chosen him sixth total in 2018. The 26-year-old was traded to the Lakers in February 2023, however solely performed 9 video games for the membership attributable to damage.
Bamba signed a one-year, minimum-salary contract with Philadelphia in the summertime of 2023. Final offseason, he inked the identical kind of take care of the Clippers.
In 28 video games with the Clips in 2024-25, Bamba averaged 4.6 factors, 4.3 rebounds and 1.0 block in 12.6 minutes per contest. He posted a capturing slash line of .466/.300/.680 whereas serving as a backup to Ivica Zubac.
Bamba was essentially the most simple candidate to be reduce by the Jazz as a result of dimension of his contract. The opposite participant Utah acquired from the Clippers was P.J. Tucker, who has but to play this season however makes $11.54M.
Assuming he clears waivers, Bamba shall be an unrestricted free agent in a pair days.
