Barely an hour after Utah’s social media team sent out a birthday graphic for the 28-year-old Oregon State product, the Jazz front office traded Eubanks and Patty Mills to the Los Angeles Clippers for P.J. Tucker, Mo Bamba, a future second-round pick and cash, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and Bobby Marks.

With the NBA trade deadline set for next Thursday, the Utah Jazz have already made two trades, including one on Saturday that sent out two players to the Los Angeles Clippers. The nuts and bolts are as follows: Drew Eubanks and Patty Mills to the Clippers;

A handful of the best 500 basketball players on planet Earth are valued more for the contracts they sign their name to than for their on-court talents.The Utah Jazz’s first trade on Saturday was a perfect example of that.

(AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers have traded P.J. Tucker and Mo Bamba to the Utah Jazz for Patty Mills and Drew Eubanks. The Jazz also get a 2030 second-round draft pick and cash as part of the deal, which was completed Saturday. ESPN first reported the agreement. The trade deadline is Thursday afternoon.

Utah hopes to flip newly acquired PJ Tucker for another team’s salary dump to land more future draft pick capital, league sources told HoopsHype. If Utah is unable to flip Tucker in another trade,

The Los Angeles Clippers have traded PJ Tucker, Mo Bamba, a future second-round pick and cash to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Drew Eubanks and Patty Mills. The deal, announced Saturday, is basically a salary dump for the Clippers,

The other two players in the trade are veterans. Tucker, 39, signed a three-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2022, which the Clippers took on when the veteran forward was sent to Los Angeles in 2023 as part of the James Harden trade.

The Clippers are trading forward P.J. Tucker, center Mohamed Bamba, a future second-round pick and cash to the Jazz for big man Drew Eubanks and guard Patty Mills, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and Bobby Marks.