{"id":495290,"date":"2026-01-06T00:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495290\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:46:09","slug":"sources-hawks-trae-young-working-together-on-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/495290\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Hawks, Trae Young working together on trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks<\/a> four-time All-Star Trae Young<\/a> and his agents, Aaron Mintz, Drew Morrison and Austin Brown, are working with the franchise on a trade, sources told ESPN on Monday.<\/p>\n

Young’s reps and Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh have begun positive and collaborative talks over the past week on finding a resolution, sources said.<\/p>\n

The Hawks and Young’s agents have maintained dialogue over his future over the past several months — since the franchise elected not to offer a contract extension to the 27-year-old guard. Young has this season and next season at $95 million total remaining on his deal, with a player option in the offseason.<\/p>\n

Young has been the face of the Hawks’ franchise since he was drafted in 2018 and sits as the team’s all-time leader in 3-pointers and assists. He has led Atlanta to the postseason three times in his eight years, including a run to the Eastern Conference finals in 2021.<\/p>\n

Hawks With and Without Trae Young<\/p>\nWITHWITHOUT<\/tr>\n\nW-L<\/td>\n2-8<\/td>\n15-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWin pct<\/td>\n.200<\/td>\n.556<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPPG<\/td>\n120.4<\/td>\n118.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOpp PPG<\/td>\n126.7<\/td>\n117.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOpp FG pct<\/td>\n50%<\/td>\n47%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n>>>Numbers from before Monday’s game<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

But the Hawks appear poised to turn the page on a new era with the emergence of forward Jalen Johnson<\/a>, who is averaging 24 points, 10.2 rebounds and 8.5 assists, and free agent acquisition Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a>, who is averaging a career-high 20.7 points.<\/p>\n

Young has dealt with leg injuries this season that have limited him to only 10 games. In the 27 games he has sat out, the Hawks are 15-12 compared with 2-8 with him while holding opponents to nearly 10 points less per game, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

Young, who dealt with a right MCL sprain early in the season and has managed residual pain from the injury, is currently sidelined because of a right quad contusion that has caused him to sit out the past five games.<\/p>\n

An All-NBA selection in 2021-22, Young has career averages of 25.2 points and 9.8 assists. He led the league in assists last season with 11.6 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks four-time All-Star Trae Young and his agents, Aaron Mintz, Drew Morrison and Austin Brown, are working…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-495290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115845397521898241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}