The Hawks have time to work on their relationship with Young, and they have avenues to improve with cap space galore and trade-chip John Collins. Rookies Cam Reddish and DeAndre Hunter showed promise, but the team was awful and the pieces didn’t fit. Young and Reddish spent 1,008 minutes together on the floor and produced a -4.4 rating. They were outscored by a total of 96 points, which was only worse for Young when he played with (gulp) Jabari Parker.

Young is under contract next season and becomes eligible for a max extension in the summer of 2021. If he doesn’t sign, Young will become a restricted free agent in 2022. It’s rare for a star to maneuver away from a franchise during his rookie contract. But it can happen. Just ask Porzingis and the Knicks.

Don't really follow the Hawks, but in a fit of boredom I listened to a Hawks game early in the season against I think the Sixers and John Collins was just going off the wall in the first half against them. He was all over the place, blocks, rebounds, 3's. Very small sample size, I know.

There is no mirror that makes this possible for us (without losing yoots and draft picks), but any thoughts?

Trae
Frankie
RJ
Collins
Mitch

Marv wrote:u draft doncic and trade him for trae. trae gives u an insane 30 and 9 in his 2nd year and u trade him??? please . . .

Yeah I don’t see it either. Honestly the NBA rumor mill is probably as frozen as the polar caps with players isolating at home. So you’re going to hear rumors with few sources and warmed up rumors from a few months ago.

Jmpasq wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:

Nalod wrote:Reddish is a Kawhi "Lite" type player. Great athlete but can he polish it up? Hunter was the NCAA March Madness darling but he is another young player on a very young team.
You don't let Trae young go. Any of their "awfulness" on him and his style?

Knicks could’ve drafted Collins. That was my choice. But Trae Young and Collins are going no where. Incredibly stupid article

it's ridiculous

That’s essentially lying— media has become adept at it. How could this guy in good faith write that the Atlanta Hawks are willing to trade away their two franchise players to the Knicks for essentially nothing? Either the writer is a f idiot or he’s trying to pray on idiots who might buy the paper because they see trse young to Knicks. That makes the New York post the national enquirer

Jmpasq wrote:

BRIGGS wrote:If Atlanta gets Wiseman it’s all over in the East for 10 years. The bucks will still win but no team will be able to match Collins wiseman young with good role players

What makes you so sold on Wiseman?

His physical profile athletic ability with the skills he has flashed to me makes him the number 1 prospect. If I said to myself who has the highest ceiling. It’s wiseman