As the Denver Nuggets continue to attempt to offload veterans and salary as part of a rebuilding project, they traded JaVale McGee to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Nuggets announced Thursday.
The 76ers have enough salary-cap space to take on McGee, who has been plagued with injuries over the past two years and fallen out of Denver coach Brian Shaw's plans. Unloading McGee creates an $11.2 million trade exception for the Nuggets, who will also clear the $12 million McGee had coming to him next season from their books.
To do this deal, the 76ers will acquire the Oklahoma City Thunder's 2015 first-round pick, which the Nuggets got in an earlier trade for Timofey Mozgov. That pick is top-18 protected, and if it rolls to next year it would be lottery protected. Denver also traded the rights to Chukwudiebere Maduabum to Philadelphia in exchange for the right to Cenk Akyol.
The Nuggets picked up another future first-round pick in a separate deal Thursday, sending Arron Afflalo to Portland.
The players dealt were among 39 to change hands Thursday, a day that marked the busiest NBA trade deadline day in 25 years.
ESPN Stats & Information contributed to this report.