{"id":146210,"date":"2025-09-16T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146210\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:57:16","slug":"hawks-trading-kobe-bufkin-to-nets-for-cash-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146210\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks trading Kobe Bufkin to Nets for cash, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"15096a54-f015-c987-5ec8-55afedf6272f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> are trading guard <a data-player-guid=\"0fe19f0d-036e-35de-80f5-ddfc232292db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683736\/kobe-bufkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe Bufkin<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> for cash considerations, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bufkin, Atlanta&#8217;s No. 15 pick in the 2023 NBA draft, is due $5.4 million this season and has a $6.9 million team option for 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>The move opens roster flexibility for the Hawks &#8212; and gives them a $4.5 million trade exception &#8212; while providing the 21-year-old guard a fresh opportunity in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets have $11.6 million in cap space following the move, with 15 players on guaranteed contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Bufkin appeared in just 27 games for the Hawks over the last two seasons. He averaged 23.6 points while playing 14 games in the G League in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>Information from ESPN&#8217;s Bobby Marks was used in this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Hawks are trading guard Kobe Bufkin to the Brooklyn Nets for cash considerations, sources told ESPN&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}