Sixers swap Reggie Jackson for Jared Butler ahead of trade deadline

The NBA trade deadline came and went Thursday with plenty of fireworks around the league but only an additional minor move from the 76ers.

They completed the trade of KJ Martin to Detroit on Thursday, then swapped Reggie Jackson to Washington for Jared Butler.

The 76ers also gave up a first-round pick in 2026 to Washington but acquired four second-round selections. To clear roster space, the club waived two-way player Pete Nance for a second time this season.

Butler is averaging 6.9 points per game in 32 games with the Wizards, all off the bench. The 6-3 shooting guard averaged 11.4 minutes in 120 games with Utah, OKC and the Wizards.  He was the 40th overall pick in 2021 out of Baylor.

Jackson was an offseason signee, the 34-year-old falling out of the rotation before establishing an unlikely partnership in recent weeks with Kyle Lowry as the second-unit backcourt. He’d played in each of the last seven games and scored 10 points Wednesday against Miami, his third-highest total as a Sixer.

The Wizards promptly waived Jackson.

The 2026 first-round pick is the least favorable of the picks that the 76ers have control of, between the Clippers, Oklahoma City and Houston.

Martin won’t stick with Detroit, being rerouted to Utah in a deal adjacent to the Jimmy Butler swap. Dennis Schroder, acquired by Golden State from Brooklyn in December, went to the Jazz for facilitating Butler’s acquisition by the Warriors, and he’s now headed to the Pistons. Going in the opposite direction with Martin is Josh Richardson, traded with Butler from the Heat to Detroit and subsequently waived by the Jazz.

The Sixers sent Milwaukee’s 2027 second-round pick and Dallas’s 2031 pick to Detroit for cash considerations, getting Martin’s contract off the books. The Sixers waived Nance for the second time this season. The forward had played 68 minutes over seven games.

Per a report from ESPN, the 76ers are also giving a 10-day contract to Chuma Okeke. The first-round pick in 2019 out of Auburn has played 189 games, all with Orlando, averaging 20.3 minutes and 6.3 points per game with 55 starts. The 6-7, 229-pound forward has averaged 16.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 4.9 assists in 16 games with the Westchester Knicks in the G League.

That makes three trades this week, with the swap of Caleb Martin to Dallas, a deal held up by Martin’s physical, per reports, and amended to include an additional second-round pick in 2030 as a result. Martin hasn’t played since Jan. 10 with a groin/hip injury, and upon the Mavericks discovering that a player listed as day-to-day by the Sixers might miss another few weeks, the pick was added to the pot.

In all, the 76ers’ gave up two Martins and Jackson plus three second-round picks and a 2026 first, receiving back Quentin Grimes, Butler and five second-round picks, including the return of their own 2025 second-rounder. The deals allowed the Sixers to clear around $40 million of the books, though it closes the account of most of the deals that president of basketball operations Daryl Morey penned this summer, widely regarded as a successful offseason at the time.