Hoopinion: Hawks Trade Josh Childress To Phoenix

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The return on holding the right to match an offer for this sort of production: a 2012 second-round pick and a trade exception. Michael Cunningham describes the potential value of the exception:

Atlanta’s trade exception would be worth half the amount of his first-year salary since he would become a

base-year compensation player

. The exception

works as a sort of credit

that would allow the Hawks to make a trade while over the salary cap without meeting the usual

salary-matching requirement

.

The trade can't be fairly evaluated until the exception gets used or expires but it must be noted that Josh Childress will be paid less money (and over more years) than the Hawks gave their perennial* fifth-option Marvin Williams.

*The constancy of his role somewhat negates the idea that the Hawks expect (or demand) improvement from Williams due to his relative youth.

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