While much of the NBA\u2019s business has concluded ahead of the 2026\/27 season, some teams are still mulling over decisions or potential changes to be made.<\/p>\n
Two of those teams are the Hawks and Hornets. The two Southeast Division squads have been intermittently discussing a trade that would include sending Buddy Hield<\/a> to Charlotte and Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a> to Atlanta, according to Jake Fischer of The Stein Line, via Marc Stein (subscriber link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Previous iterations of the framework would have potentially included Devin Carter<\/a>, but the Hawks ultimately decided to waive<\/a> the former lottery pick instead.<\/p>\n The 33-year-old Hield split his season between the Warriors and Hawks last year, averaging 7.6 points on a career-low 34.9% from three for the duration of the season. Finney-Smith played just 37 games for the Rockets last season, averaging a career-low 3.3 points in 16.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n Finney-Smith\u2019s $13.3MM salary for the 2027\/28 season is non-guaranteed, which could be appealing to the Hawks, who have been trying to find ways to shed Hields\u2019 $9.7MM salary all summer, according to Stein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While much of the NBA\u2019s business has concluded ahead of the 2026\/27 season, some teams are still mulling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,42292,30412,19706,85],"class_list":["post-899493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-buddy-hield","tag-devin-carter","tag-dorian-finney-smith","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899493","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=899493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}