Trae Young traded to Washington Wizards

It was the summertime of 2021 erstwhile the Atlanta Hawks selected Trae Young implicit Luka Doncic. Although they mislaid to Milwaukee (4-2) successful the finals of the Eastern Conference of the NBA League, they were satisfied successful Atlanta. The squad was young, and the 22-year-old Young was a existent star. They thought the aboriginal belonged to them and that the determination from the 2018 draught would beryllium forgotten erstwhile they sent the Slovenian to Texas for Youn* and the prime that became Cam Reddish.

Four and a fractional years later, Dončić is rushing with the Lakers to the apical of the Western Conference, Reddish is playing successful Šiauliai, Lithuania, and Atlanta and Youn* are looking for a caller destination. The squad astir Trae tried to enactment unneurotic a squad to repetition the occurrence of 2021, but it didn't enactment out. Neither John Collins nor Dejounte Murray, nor the different players could bring continuity, and injuries made the concern adjacent much difficult. The archetypal prime successful 2024 did not bring generational talent, truthful they had to settee for Zaccharie Risacher.

During each these years, Trae was the main subordinate of Atlanta and 1 of the astir effectual successful the league. So far, helium has played 493 games with an mean of 25.2 points and 9.8 assists. His 3-point shooting was 35.1% with 7.5 attempts per match, which intelligibly makes him a franchise player. But numbers did not bring squad success; the chemistry successful the squad was ne'er right. Young's benignant requires implicit subordination of the team, and helium cannot pb Atlanta to a rubric by himself.

Subtitle: caller challenges

This season, the Hawks are playing a antithetic benignant of basketball, led by Jalen Johnson and Dyson Daniels, with bully enactment from Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Onyeka Okongwu. The squad is successful the play-in zone, but Young does not acceptable the caller benignant nether Quin Snyder. There was speech of a trade, and connected January 8, ESPN's Shams Charania announced that Young and Atlanta were moving connected uncovering a caller destination.

Youn* was sent to the Washington Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert. The Wizards get the person of a young team, portion Atlanta retains flexibility for caller transfers. Doncic volition proceed to pursuit a ringing with the Lakers, and Trae will effort to execute 25 wins successful a play with the Wizards.