Draft Atlanta Hawks Pick-Swap Watch Thread

Will the 2026 Hawks Swap Convey?

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I really don't understand any team that would trade for Trae unless the Hawks are sending a lot of FRP at the same time
 
LeBowen said:
I actually thought he had one more season before his option, but he's effectively an expiring contract since his option is for the next season.

No chance Hawks need to pay someone to take him, but they're also not getting anything other than expiring contracts in return.

Trae for DDR+Monk would actually make sense, DDR's contract isn't fully guaranteed for the next season and the Hawks need a bench PG.
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He will never opt out of his player option. He’d be lucky to get that money for three years in this market.
 
frenchfred said:
I really don't understand any team that would trade for Trae unless the Hawks are sending a lot of FRP at the same time
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He would be the best player they've had since John Wall(some might say Brad Beal but I always thought he sucked)- either way they're a franchise starving for talent. We all know what he is, but if they're not giving up any young players and they're gonna suck anyway, I don't think it's a bad move. They're not bringing in any big time free agents in for the foreseeable future, definitely not any that are as high profile as Trae has been over the past few years. Sell a few more tickets, sell some more merch, and try to win a few extra games. I know nothing about their cap situation though or the impact that has though.
 
I'll post this again as what WAS should do if they really want to give their fans some FUN.

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Trae Young is now a salary dump. Atlanta is going to have to send assets to get off his contract, I promise you. Those guys in DC learned everything they know from Sam Presti. Trae will be an epic tank commander. He will opt in for next season because I promise you Washington isn't going to extend him for near his money, he's going to put up crazy numbers and try to play defense in a contract year, and then somebody will get desperate at next year's trade deadline and give Washington another asset for him.

Could you imagine five years ago after Young leading them to the ECF and his whole shtick in the Garden this happening without some sort of injury consideration? Amazing.
 
I like Trae to Washington, and moving McCollum and Middleton is an obvious move (not necessarily both in the same deal).

Bring in Trae to unlock Sarr and Trey, get a lotto pick, and go on a spree in the FA market, and they're probably a play-in team with upside, especially in the East.

Also, while I suspect that the market for Trae is not great, he can probably avoid it and work a team like the Wizards for a generous extension.
 
Mitch Cumsteen said:
Trae Young is now a salary dump. Atlanta is going to have to send assets to get off his contract, I promise you. Those guys in DC learned everything they know from Sam Presti. Trae will be an epic tank commander. He will opt in for next season because I promise you Washington isn't going to extend him for near his money, he's going to put up crazy numbers and try to play defense in a contract year, and then somebody will get desperate at next year's trade deadline and give Washington another asset for him.

Could you imagine five years ago after Young leading them to the ECF and his whole shtick in the Garden this happening without some sort of injury consideration? Amazing.
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5 years is an eternity in this league. 5 years ago the bottom three records in the West were the Rockets, Thunder, Wolves, and in the East were the Pistons, Magic, Cavs.
 
Just to show how dumb the Pels are, they play all their guys against the Lakers last night which was always going to be an uphill battle to get the W.

Then the next night you have a more winnable game against the team you destroyed your future for by handing over a top 5 pick for Dairy Queen, you rest Herb Jones, Tre Murphy, Alvarado.

Joe Dumbars stupidity flowing down hill tbh.
 
Now that I think about it, I’m sure the Pels were showcasing TMIII and Herb for the Lakers to get them to cough up all their future picks unprotected.
 
I do wonder what ATL would realistically be willing to give up or facilitate to get us to tear up their swap this year. Then they could hard tank and this would be a fantastic draft to have two high lottery picks. They are only 4 games up in the loss column from a Top 4 pick right now (and that’s over WAS, ironically enough) and only 2 games up in the loss column from Top 5.

Now, ATL has the right to swap with CLE, so they don’t have a ton of upside to do this unless they are going to hard tank (going from the 12th pick to the 17th pick, as an example, isn’t worth to them what the swap is worth to us).

People talk about Okongwu… but does ATL have anything else we’d want that would be worthy of losing that swap? Jalen Johnson obviously ain’t gonna happen.
 
scott said:
I do wonder what ATL would realistically be willing to give up or facilitate to get us to tear up their swap this year. Then they could hard tank and this would be a fantastic draft to have two high lottery picks. They are only 4 games up in the loss column from a Top 4 pick right now (and that’s over WAS, ironically enough) and only 2 games up in the loss column from Top 5.

Now, ATL has the right to swap with CLE, so they don’t have a ton of upside to do this unless they are going to hard tank (going from the 12th pick to the 17th pick, as an example, isn’t worth to them what the swap is worth to us).

People talk about Okongwu… but does ATL have anything else we’d want that would be worthy of losing that swap? Jalen Johnson obviously ain’t gonna happen.
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I don't think there's anything worth getting from them for tearing up that swap. Now the 2027 pick ...maybe...
 
scott said:
I do wonder what ATL would realistically be willing to give up or facilitate to get us to tear up their swap this year. Then they could hard tank and this would be a fantastic draft to have two high lottery picks. They are only 4 games up in the loss column from a Top 4 pick right now (and that’s over WAS, ironically enough) and only 2 games up in the loss column from Top 5.

Now, ATL has the right to swap with CLE, so they don’t have a ton of upside to do this unless they are going to hard tank (going from the 12th pick to the 17th pick, as an example, isn’t worth to them what the swap is worth to us).

People talk about Okongwu… but does ATL have anything else we’d want that would be worthy of losing that swap? Jalen Johnson obviously ain’t gonna happen.
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I don’t think there’s a conversation to be had that would “realistically” work for both sides.

I think ATL would do it for Okongwu but that’s not enough for us.

Maybe Okongwu and Risacher would appeal to us. But their not wanting to do that for AD and he’s a guy they want.
 
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