Breaking: Wizards Trade Jonas Valanciunas To Western Conference Team

His name was on the rumor mill pretty much ever since they signed him as a free agent last summer. Now the Washington Wizards have officially traded veteran center Jonas Valanciunas to the Sacramento Kings.

The Washington Wizards are trading Jonas Valanciunas to the Sacramento Kings for Sidy Cissoko and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 5, 2025

The Wizards get Sidy Cissoko and two second-round picks.

In Sacramento, JV is reunited with his longtime Toronto Raptors teammate DeMar DeRozan. Valanciunas will also make it an all-Lithuanian frontcourt with Domantas Sabonis.

As for Cissoko, he only arrived in Sacramento a couple of days ago, in the big De'Aaron Fox trade.

The Wizards signed Valanciunas to a three-year, $30 million free agent deal this past summer, in a move that raised some eyebrows, since the team was clearly in a bottoming-out stage of the rebuild. But all along, it was pretty much known that JV would be a trade piece for the Wiz to use at this time.

For the first time in his career, JV wasn't a starter this season, and was playing a career-low 20 minutes per night, while averaging 11.5 points, an 11-year low.