Draft Atlanta Hawks Pick-Swap Watch Thread

[scott]

Had to find a fourth team to make it work, but I think I figured it out

 

[Corso]

Had to find a fourth team to make it work, but I think I figured it out

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We wish.

 

[Robz4000]

Had to find a fourth team to make it work, but I think I figured it out

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Everybody wins imo.

 

[PocketMonger]

I've thought for a quite awhile now that Trae would help the Wizards. Seems like a three team deal between the Wiz/Hawks/Mavs is cooking nicely.

If the Wizards got Trae that would probably eliminate Bagley from the shopping list barring an overpay.

 

[spurraider21]

Had to find a fourth team to make it work, but I think I figured it out

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you had me in the first half, not gonna lie

 

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008310091091513666

 

[ace3g]

 

[LeBowen]

They're about to trade him for CJ.

 

[spurraider21]

 

[scott]

Please just keep CJ in the east where he can't hurt us anymore

 

[scott]

Just imagine the kinds of lobs Trae connect with Sochan in WAS... the Wizards would be fools to not offer up an FRP for Jeremy!

 

[Mugen]

Have to keep Porzingis so AD doesn't have to play Center tbh

 

[CGD]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008295939690119625

This makes a lot of sense to me, especially if the price is as low as rumored. WAS has a nice young core, if missing an PG, and is desperate to put butts in seats. Trae is also the type of player that would be an FU guy for all the fans of other teams that regularly come to their games.

 

[CGD]

I wonder if this means AD is on his way to ATL...

How do you figure? In a 3 way deal involving WAS-ATL-DAL?

 

[Mugen]

How do you figure? In a 3 way deal involving WAS-ATL-DAL?

yeah see spurraider's screenshot tbh for a suggested framework.

 

[spursistan]

No one talks about it, but one of the best Brian Wright's (non)-moves was to never fall for Trae's soft signals to trade for him. Less than 2 years since those solicitations began, the guy is getting salary dumped because he is a net-negative for an East play-in team. Brutal stuff, tbh

 

[Ariel]

Trae + something for CJ McCollum + Kispert?
Trae + Risacher for CJ McCollum + Middleton + something?
This seems brutal, but Atlanta could have almost 80 million in cap space, given that they'd have over 100 million in expirings or non guaranteed contracts (basically everyone but Jalen Johnson, NAW, Okongwu, Dyson Daniels and Asa Newell).

 

[CGD]

Poor MavFan. Imagine having to deal with the inevitable press onslaught of “they traded Luka for Christie+Rischser+filler.”

 

[DTW]

Hawks: Davis, McCollum

Mavericks: Porzingis, Middleton, Whitmore, Johnson, a projected "bad" 1sts each from the Hawks and Wizards

Wizards: Young, Martin, Hardy, Exum

Works, but the Mavericks would be selling shockingly low.

Davis is still better than Young, but at 5 years older, for how much longer? And how much higher would the Hawks ceiling be, if at all, without a lead ball handler/play maker?

 

[Ariel]

Hawks: Davis, McCollum

Mavericks: Porzingis, Middleton, Branham, a projected "bad" 1sts each from the Hawks and Wizards

Wizards: Young, Hardy

Works, but the Mavericks would be selling shockingly low.

Davis is still better than Young, but at 5 years older, for how much longer? And how much higher would the Hawks ceiling be, if at all, without a lead ball handler/play maker?

AD makes them much better if available, but the potential for disaster is huuuuge, he's a walking injury and Jalen Johnson is also very injury prone, Atlanta would be one bump away between those 2 from conveying a top pick to the Spurs.

 

[DTW]

AD makes them much better if available, but the potential for disaster is huuuuge, he's a walking injury and Jalen Johnson is also very injury prone, Atlanta would be one bump away between those 2 from conveying a top pick to the Spurs.

I altered it to give the Mavericks slightly more value.

Anyway, I think the Hawks would be better short term, but not markedly so.

 

[spursistan]

Can someone tell me what's the motivating factor for the Wizards here? To put butts on seats next season in case they move down in the draft lottery?

 

[Seventyniner]

Can someone tell me what's the motivating factor for the Wizards here? To put butts on seats next season in case they move down in the draft lottery?

Some teams are content being middling to bad without wanting to ever truly bottom out, like the Kings and Bulls.

The Wizards are jealous of them.

 

[spurraider21]

Can someone tell me what's the motivating factor for the Wizards here? To put butts on seats next season in case they move down in the draft lottery?

their entire roster is young fucks making pennies on rookie contracts, then an expiring McCollum and expiring Middleton. they are actually in a pretty good position to be able to overpay somebody like Trae for a year or two since there literally is nowhere else for the money to go.

in the meantime, their on-court product is just a hodgepodge of players with no real rhyme or reason to anything they do on offense. Trae can at least run the machine, feed looks to Sarr and Tre Johnson, etc.

and it gives their fans someone exciting to watch. imo it makes a lot of sense for them, especially if theyre going to get him for very cheap

 

[Kick-Stand]

Had to find a fourth team to make it work, but I think I figured it out

As long as we're talking four way deals: