JayBirdHawk

2 guys coming off knee surgeries in Lavine and Sexton and the other played 36 games this past season in Brogdon. Then we have our own walking injury concern in Hunter. I'm not OK with this!!!....and I don't think we've adequately addressed our wing defense.

Bogi's minutes will need to be carefully managed going forward. He needs to take care of that knee this offseason. May now be an issue in any trade that and his 15% trade kicker.

How do you propose we get all 3 though? Particularly since Lavine and Sexton will both need to be SnTs

Sway this way Squd...you know you want to!

Agree or Disagree? Untouchable Trae Young (five years, $176.9 million remaining — can be over $211 million if he’s named to an All-NBA team in the coming days) The hope is Young remains a Hawk for the entirety of his career. Atlanta was all-in on building around Young from the moment it traded for him on draft night in 2018. He has since developed into one of the league’s best players and should be named to his first All-NBA team, which would enact the supermax clause of his contract. Splashy trade pieces John Collins (four years, $102 million remaining, includes player option for 2025-26) As the cap rises each year, Collins’ contract will look even more reasonable than it does now. In the first season of his five-year, $125 million deal, Collins was the 45th-highest paid player in the league. He’ll continue dropping throughout the length of his contract as more players get new deals each free agency. De’Andre Hunter (one year, $9.84 million remaining) Hunter would have to be a part of a package in order for the Hawks to get something significant in return because he’s on his rookie contract. Trading him outside of a deal that nets a valuable player (or players) in return wouldn’t make sense, because the Hawks could just simply let him play out his contract and reevaluate where he is next offseason. This year’s first-round pick, Hawks’ future firsts and Charlotte’s 2023 first-round pick (top-16 protected 2023, top-14 protected 2024 and 2025; if it hasn’t conveyed by 2025, then Hawks will get 2026, 2027 second-round picks) Onyeka Okongwu (two years, $14.5 million remaining, includes team option for 2023-24) An argument can be made that outside of Young, Okongwu is the second-likeliest player to not be traded this offseason. The Hawks see him as the center of the future, and we haven’t seen that should make them believe otherwise. It would be a surprise if Atlanta moves Okongwu, but he’s not good enough yet to keep if the Hawks could get a top talent in return. Sneaky value Danilo Gallinari (one year, $21.45 million remaining, only $5 million guaranteed) Let’s say the Hawks do make a trade with the Utah Jazz for someone like Rudy Gobert. It’s possible Utah could ask for Capela or Gallinari in the deal to help match salaries. Kevin Huerter (four years, $65 million remaining) Huerter has a poison-pill restriction (so does Young) that doesn’t go away until July 1. That means if he were to be traded before July 1, his outgoing salary for the Hawks would be $4.25 million, and his incoming salary for a different team would be $13.85 million The “good when healthy” tier Clint Capela (three years, $65.59 million remaining, $61.09 million guaranteed) It took Capela more than half of the season to look comfortable on the floor after battling Achilles soreness that originated at the start of the 2020-21 season. Even when he overcame the soreness, he still looked as if he had lost a step, as evidenced with the amount of quality looks he missed at the rim. Bogdan Bogdanović (two years, $36 million remaining, includes player option for 2023-2024) When he’s fully healthy and locked-in from 3, Bogdanović has played like the second-best player on the Hawks. What’s concerning, though, is how much he battled injuries from the beginning of the season up until the final game against the Miami Heat. His knee continuously bothered him, even after he underwent a procedure in the offseason to address his lingering soreness. Trade sweeteners Jalen Johnson (three years, $10.23 million remaining, includes team options for 2023-24, 2024-25) It might’ve been a bit unrealistic to have hoped Johnson would be in a different tier after his rookie season. The Hawks were public from the moment they drafted him about how his path to cracking the rotation immediately was going to be daunting because of the depth ahead of him. But even with multiple injuries and a COVID-19 outbreak on the roster, Johnson was never able to find a role. He finished with just 120 minutes played — or put another way, just 2.5 full NBA games.All second-round picks Finding second-round talent is an underrated way to build out any roster in the league, and the Hawks haven’t been successful at finding rotation players. The last player who made any sort of impact for the Hawks out of the second round was Mike Scott in 2012 https://theathletic.com/3327229/2022/05/23/rankings-hawks-trade-tiers/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983

Not shocking. It's a WING league. Guys that can score themselves and able to set up others are the premium....Hawks are more in need of another guy that can do this. Not so much a guy that needs Trae to get him his points. That's why I don't want Gobert and his $40 mil - that's too much to invest in that position without changing and upgrading the Trae dynamic.

Yep. Guys signing new deals under the new increased salary cap number will always end up making more than previously signed contracta. Bam signed when the salary cap was $112 mil.....Trae and Ayton will be signed under a $122 mil salary cap.

We don't have capspace to sign Lavine as a FA outright. It would require a SnT. To sign him outright, Hawks will need to dump ~$44 in salaries and take no money back to get under the cap to sign him to a starring salary of $36 mil. And you are right, JC is too much to give up in a SnT. Good call on the DeRozan SnT: Chicago traded Thaddeus Young, Al-Farouq Aminu, a protected first-round Draft pick and two second-round draft picks to San Antonio as part of the deal.

Bam signed a max extension.

.....then at the end of the offseason, we can pull receipts and say...."You were saying "

Forgot to mention that Ayton's BYC status also plays some role in the matching of salaries.

That was horrible...just posted as is without mentioning the original author. I hope it's not one of you Squawkers.

Ha....post the twitterer so we can see the comments. .....OR we get to out a Squawker.

Not a fan - we'd still have defensive issues on the wings...and count me as one who doesn't see the OO/Gobert pairing as ideal offensively.

Who or what else is Charlotte giving up? Payne has 1 guaranteed year left at $6 mil, then $2 mil the next year. Shammette is on a 4yr deal at $11 mil per, so Phoenix is sending out, if you include Ayton, approximately $47 million - who is Charlotte sending out to match salaries? They have maybe $16 mil in salary before Bridges caphold. I don't understand the full parameters of this deal.

I noted earlier that Gobert didn't sign a Super Max just regular max.

I'm still not interested in Gobert at this price.

This^. I don't understand what Phoenix would want from Charlotte except Bridges in a double SnT. Charlotte doesn't have capspace to take dead weight....they'd have to be sending out players like Oubre on expiring contracts for longer term deals from Suns. Lavine is a FA, so he can opt to go to a team with capspace. Bulls have no leverage to demand JC. The only reason is if the Hawks want to 'get out' of JCs deal. Lavine's max is $36.6 mil - Hawks offer some combination of Gallo, Bogi, Huerter, pick.

I'd be ok with this scenario only. We don't have bad contracts to send back to worth it including a 2nd. Brogdon has 3 years left on his deal and considering age and injuries, I wouldn't want to offer much more.

Evan has 2 guaranteed years left at $18, $18.8. His final year is a team option at $19. If this deals happens, it's NYK wanting to dump the last guaranteed year of Fournier for Gallo's expiring which means we should be getting a small asset in the deal. In this scenario, Bogi will have to be on the move, Fournier takes his spot off the bench.

He just signed an extension so not sure he'll be available in the offseason.

Can you share what they asked for?

2. I understand wanting more dynamic play making from this position. Would still like to see Delon amd his defense back in some role. 3. I agree with this.

Gobert did not sign a 5 year SuperMax deal worth $228. He signed for 5yrs/$208