New Trail Blazer Deni Avdija: 'We're Going to Have a Lot of Fun'

Avdija spoke with reporters for the first time since his trade from the Wizards became official.

📍 TUALATIN, Ore. — Deni Avdija did not expect to be traded.

Less than a year after signing a four-year, $55 million extension with the Washington Wizards, the team that drafted him, and coming off a career year, he thought he was a part of what their new front-office regime would be building.

So it caught him off guard when on draft night, on the other side of the world, he got an alert on his phone that he’d been traded to the Trail Blazers.

“Woj bomb,” he joked on Monday.