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30 Team Association: Wizards send Walker to Grizzlies

Posted on April 23, 2013 at 08:38 PM.

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4/28/13-Wizards send Walker to Grizzlies, sign Haddadi

WASHINGTON-Just days after sending point guard A.J. Price to the Charlotte Bobcats for Orien Greene, the Washington Wizards again made a trade to shake up their bench, sending small forward Bill Walker to the Memphis Grizzlies Sunday to clear a spot to sign free agent center Hamed Haddadi.

Washington again chose to add veteran depth to a young team that missed the playoffs by one game in their transactions Sunday, choosing to send Walker to Memphis for small forward Rodney Carney, who was immediately waived. Washington then signed Haddadi to a two-year veteran's minimum contract with their open roster spot.

Walker, in the first year of a three-year contract, averaged 2.5 points in 52 games with the Wizards this season. Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins said Walker would be starter Rudy Gay's backup next season.

Carney averaged 2.6 points in 68 games in the same role.

Haddadi played the entire regular season in the NBA D-League. The 27-year-old Iranian national played the entire season for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, averaging 12.1 points and 10.7 rebounds in 50 games.

Walker wasn't expected to return to the Wizards next season, with Trevor Ariza entrenched as the team's starter and Chris Singleton, who head coach Randy Wittman announced would switch to small forward, projected to be his top backup.

Singleton's switch to small forward was part of a trio of positional changes by the Wizards last week. In addition to his switch, the team announced that Walker would move to small forward from shooting guard and Kevin Seraphin to power forward from center.

Small forward Cartier Martin, fourth on the depth chart behind Ariza, Singleton, and Martell Webster, is expected to follow Walker out the door, a Wizards front office source said.