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Trade news from Ronald Tillery at the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

Bonzi Wells is a Sacramento King.

The Grizzlies exercised an $8 million team option Friday and agreed to trade Wells to Sacramento in a three-team deal involving the Utah Jazz, NBA sources confirmed.

The deal won't be announced until the NBA's moratorium is lifted because of a delay in finalizing the collective bargaining agreement.

Wells, though, will go to Sacramento for guard Bobby Jackson while the Kings will send Greg Ostertag to Utah.
The Jazz also will send forward Curtis Borchardt, and guards Raul Lopez and Kirk Snyder to Memphis.

The 29-year-old Wells was considered the best guard available now that Ray Allen, Michael Redd, Bobby Simmons, Larry Hughes and Cuttino Mobley have agreed in principle to sign new deals.

Sometimes Bonzi Wells can play so beautifully. I once sat next to Peter Vecsey at a Knicks-Blazers game where Bonzi had 15 in the fourth quarter. We were both oohing and aahing, and Vecsey made a great observation: Bonzi Wells has an incredible knack for creating space.

But he's a first-degree bad attitude.

Also, note Ostertag goes back to Utah, and Memphis gets to mess around with some different unproven players from the ones they had before. I, for one, am rooting for Jerry West to sort out this Memphis mess.

This trade could be subtitled: Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Practically every one of these players thought their careers would turn out better than they have so far.