The Los Angeles Clippers are acquiring Drew Eubanks and Patty Mills from the Utah Jazz in exchange for P.J. Tucker, Mo Bamba, a second-round pick in 2030, and cash, the Clippers announced.
Eubanks, a 6-foot-9 veteran forward who can also play as an undersized five, provides the Clippers with frontcourt depth behind Ivica Zubac. Bamba was the only other true 7-footer on their roster but had been in and out of the rotation in recent weeks, while 6-foot-11 Kai Jones averaged just 7.4 minutes in seven games in January.
Mills provides the Clippers with an established point guard behind starter James Harden.
The move also gives L.A. valuable financial flexibility under the new CBA, as it gets the franchise underneath the luxury-tax threshold by $4 million, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks.
Tucker, 39, has not played this season. The Clippers announced before the start of the campaign that they had reached a mutual agreement with the forward to hold him out while they worked to find him a new team.
Utah already had priority over the Clippers' 2030 selection because of a negotiated right to swap second-rounders that year. That agreement was made as part of the Russell Westbrook deal in July that sent Kris Dunn to L.A. in a sign-and-trade. By trading the 2030 pick outright Saturday, the Clippers forfeited the possibility of getting the Jazz's second-rounder in return.
