{"id":398425,"date":"2026-01-07T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:22:08","slug":"the-trae-young-trade-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/398425\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trae Young Trade Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!-lKe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a63ec4e-f1c0-4d77-a229-bccd6f9d1eb3_1100x220.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3a63ec4e-f1c0-4d77-a229-bccd6f9d1eb3_1100.png\" width=\"1100\" height=\"220\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/3a63ec4e-f1c0-4d77-a229-bccd6f9d1eb3_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:78412,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/183005938?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a63ec4e-f1c0-4d77-a229-bccd6f9d1eb3_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trae Young&#8217;s tenure in Atlanta is truly nearing its inevitable end.<\/p>\n<p>As our publisher reported above Monday night, Washington has emerged as a very viable landing spot for the four-time NBA All-Star point guard. Additional salary would be needed to complete such a deal, but CJ McCollum going back to Atlanta gets the Wizards a long way toward making this trade happen.<\/p>\n<p>As for the inevitable part &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Among the three high-profile lead guards perceived to be available this Trade Season, I&#8217;ve been saying for some time now that Young has always loomed as the most likely to be dealt before the Feb. 5 trade buzzer in comparison to Memphis&#8217; Ja Morant and Charlotte&#8217;s LaMelo Ball. He might also prove to be the only one who actually changes teams in-season after it became apparent rather quickly during the offseason that the Hawks and Young would not be coming together on a contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dive into where everything stands on this story after Washington&#8217;s serious interest was revealed Monday by the old man:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trae Young&#8217;s tenure in Atlanta is truly nearing its inevitable end. As our publisher reported above Monday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-398425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398425","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=398425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}