Trae Young Traded to Washington Wizards
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[Charania] BREAKING: The Atlanta Hawks are trading four-time NBA All-Star Trae Young to the Washington Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, sources tell ESPN.
[Charania] BREAKING: The Atlanta Hawks are trading four-time NBA All-Star Trae Young to the Washington Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, sources tell ESPN. The trade ends Youngâs stint as the face of the Hawks and sends the 27-year-old to his preferred destination in the nationâs capital. Top Wizards officials Michael Winger and Will Dawkins have searched to anchor their young talent in the next step of the team's development. The Hawks are poised to turn the page on a new era with the emergence of Jalen Johnson and others, bringing a much more fluid style of play around their wings and depth. McCollum serves as a valuable plug-and-play veteran while holding a $30.6 million expiring deal. Source: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/b657de7f7ed3f ESPN Story: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47545290/sources-hawks-trading-trae-young-wizards-mccollum-kispert
[Fischer] League source confirms Trae Young is being dealt to Washington in exchange for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert. There are no draft picks changing teams in this trade.
Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcstein/p/the-trae-young-trade-latest?r=nuq3a&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay > League source confirms Trae Young is being dealt to Washington in exchange for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert. There are no draft picks changing teams in this trade.
[Charania] After trading Trae Young to Washington, the Atlanta Hawks intend to pursue a trade for a larger salary playerâ with Anthony Davis as the prime target.
Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47545290/sources-hawks-trading-trae-young-wizards-mccollum-kispert > Moving Young also provides Atlanta with added financial flexibility to pursue a large salary over the next several months -- with Dallas Mavericks star Anthony Davis as a prime trade target -- ahead of an incredibly valuable most-favorable of New Orleans and Milwaukee first-round pick in June.
In contrast to the Hawks turning Luka Doncic into Corey Kispert & CJ McCollum, the Washington Wizards turned Bradley Beal into Trae Young, Bilal Coulibaly, 4 unprotected swaps & a Warriors 2030 1st. Among many other smaller assets along the way.
Here's the quick rundown: * **Bradley Beal** gets traded in a 3-teamer that nets them **Chris Paul** (And some other players but they're there to match salaries), 4 Suns swaps in even years from 2024-2030 & additional draft assets via Suns 2nd round picks * The Wizards would use some of these 2nds to move up from 8th to 7th to select Bilal Coulibaly * The Wizards would then flip **Chris Paul** for **Jordan Poole**, Ryan Rollins, Patrick Baldwin Jr., a 2027 2nd and a Top 20 protected 2030 1st from Golden State. * **Jordan Poole** would moved be with Bey & the 40th pick in the 2025 draft for **CJ McCollum**, Kelly Olynyk & a future 2nd in a 3-teamer involving the Rockets * Olynyk was later moved for Malaki Branham, Blake Wesley and a 2026 second-round pick * Just today, Corey Kispert & **CJ McCollum** were moved with **no draft capital** for 2x All-Star and 2nd biggest menace to New York ^((Second only to Spider-Man)) Trae Young Not bad for a guy who became untradable 6 months after moving to Arizona. I'm sure there's some trade exceptions I missed along the way (And they did mess up prematurely moving on from Ryan Rollins who is balling out for the Bucks) but the Beal trade has been a remarkably successful trade tree thus far for the former Baltimore sports team.
[Robbins] Trae Young is expected to assess the free agency market this Summer. There is no rush to have Trae Young return from injury: âI would be surprised if he plays much, if at all, the remainder of this season.â
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6949961/2026/01/07/trae-young-traded-wizards-hawks/?source=user_shared_article > While rival teams expect Young to pick up his player option, league sources say Young has not made a decision on that front at this point. He is open to the prospect of discussing an extension but is assessing the free agency landscape for this summer, as well. > Young has missed the Hawksâ past six games with an ankle injury. The plan is for him to rehab the ankle in-house, a league source said, but with no rush to bring him back. The Wizardsâ desire isnât for Young to help them this season. Itâs to contribute starting in 2026, assuming heâs still around, which is the most likely scenario. > I would be surprised if he plays much, if at all, the remainder of this season. > If Young were to decline his $49 million player option for the 2026-27 season, entering free agency in the upcoming summer, the Wizards would make a full push to re-sign him, according to a league source. The organization believes in keeping the player under contract, as opposed to losing him for nothing.
In 2020, Trae Young averaged 30/9 as a 21 year old while Luka averaged 29/8/9 as a 20 year old
Source: [https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/y/youngtr01.html](https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/y/youngtr01.html) Both of these guys would be traded away from their franchises in their primes for a a single combined first round pick
With Trae Young being traded, the only players from the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft who are still with their original teams are Jaren Jackson Jr and Miles Bridges
| Pk | Player | Original | Current | | -: | :---------------------- | :-----------: | :-------------: | | 1 | Deandre Ayton | PHO | LAL | | 2 | Marvin Bagley III | SAC | WAS | | 3 | Luka Doncic | DAL | LAL | | 4 | Jaren Jackson Jr. | MEM | MEM | | 5 | Trae Young | ATL | WAS | | 6 | Mo Bamba | ORL | Free Agent | | 7 | Wendell Carter Jr. | CHI | ORL | | 8 | Collin Sexton | CLE | CHA | | 9 | Kevin Knox | NYK | Free Agent | | 10 | Mikal Bridges | PHX | NYK | | 11 | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | LAC | OKC | | 12 | Miles Bridges | CHA | CHA | | 13 | Jerome Robinson | LAC | Europe | | 14 | Michael Porter Jr. | DEN | BKN | | 15 | Troy Brown Jr. | WAS | Australia | | 16 | Zhaire Smith | PHO | Free Agent | | 17 | Donte DiVincenzo | MIL | MIN | | 18 | Lonnie Walker IV | SAS | Europe | | 19 | Kevin Huerter | ATL | CHI | | 20 | Josh Okogie | MIN | HOU | | 21 | Grayson Allen | UTA | PHX | | 22 | Chandler Hutchison | CHI | Free Agent | | 23 | Aaron Holiday | IND | HOU | | 24 | Anfernee Simons | POR | BOS | | 25 | Moritz Wagner | LAL | ORL | | 26 | Landry Shamet | PHI | NYK | | 27 | Robert Williams | BOS | POR | | 28 | Jacob Evans | GSW | Free Agent | | 29 | Dzanan Musa | BRK | Europe | | 30 | Omari Spellman | ATL | China |
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