NBA side Milwaukee Bucks have managed to
acquire guard Grayson Allen in a trade deal with the Memphis Grizzlies, reports
emerging from the US said.

In return, the Grizzlies will be given guard
Sam Merrill and two future second-round picks, ESPN reported quoting sources.

Allen, the 25-year-old former Duke standout,
set career highs in points (10.6), rebounds (3.2), and assists (2.2) per game
this season for the Grizzlies team that advanced from the play-in tournament to
become the eighth seed in the Western Conference playoffs.

The 6-foot-4 guard also boasts of a 39.1% shot
conversation from 3-point range while averaging 25.2 minutes per game. Allen’s addition
may help the newly crowned NBA champion Bucks fill the long-distance void left
by Bryn Forbes, who declined his player option and became an unrestricted free
agent.

Merrill, a second-round pick in last year’s
draft, averaged 7.8 minutes per game while appearing in 30 games for Milwaukee although he started in just two games.

The Milwaukee Bucks clinched their first NBA
title since 1971 as a 50-point burst from two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo
helped secure a 105-98 win over the Phoenix Suns last season. The win made the Bucks only the fifth team in
NBA Finals history to win the championship after losing the first two games in
the best-of-seven series.

The Grizzlies reached the playoffs in the last season after they won 38 of their 72 games, losing the rest 34 of the games in the regular season. The team could not do much in the postseason as they fell to Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs. The team will hope to once again feature in the postseason and this time go deep into it.