This story has been updated with a correction of when Porter told he was being traded.

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On January 31, Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis said that his team would not be trading Bradley Beal, John Wall or Otto Porter Jr. prior to the NBA trade deadline in an interview with Washington area radio station WTOP.

Six days later, Porter Jr. was traded to the Chicago Bulls for Jabari Parker and Bobby Portis.

The trade was a ripple effect of the February 5 news that Wall, who was out for the season after undergoing heel surgery, tore his Achilles in a freak fall at his home and would be out for at least an additional 12 months.

It was a move that made sense, given the Wizards' cap space problems and the suddenly prolonged absence of Wall. But after publicly stating the Wizards' Big 3 weren't going anywhere, Leonsis understands why Porter would have felt blindsided.

"I feel terrible 'cause I read the other day that Otto felt that we had lied to him," Leonsis said in an interview with WUSA9 this week. "And I understand that. We did tell him we weren’t going to trade him. We were going to keep our core together."

Drafted by the Wizards third overall in the 2013 NBA Draft, Porter was averaging a .457 field goal percentage and 12.6 points per game over 41 games, before his tenure with the team came to an abrupt end when he was pulled out of his pregame routine prior to their matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks.

In the interview, Leonsis said that the team was actually preparing to make another trade that would have kept Wall, Beal and Porter Jr. together.

"We actually had some other things that we were going to do, and another trade that would have kept the core together and given us flexibility."

Leonsis would not reveal who the Wizards were interested in trading for,but as life often does, the team was handed a curveball.

"Man plans and God laughs," Leonsis added.

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