{"id":902105,"date":"2026-09-23T04:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902105\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:38:15","slug":"hornets-deal-finney-smith-to-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902105\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets deal Finney-Smith to Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2329841\" class=\"wp-image-2329841 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/finney-smith-092226-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1443\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2329841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorian Finney-Smith, a 10-year veteran, averaged 3.3 points last season with the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 The Atlanta Hawks traded guards Buddy Hield and Ryan Nembhard and cash to the Charlotte Hornets for forward Dorian Finney-Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Each team announced the deal on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the A, Dorian Finney-Smith! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1x8w5TTOW5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1x8w5TTOW5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ATLHawks\/status\/2102550167614640339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: We&#8217;ve acquired guard Buddy Hield, guard Ryan Nembhard and cash considerations from the Hawks in exchange for forward Dorian Finney-Smith. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tPRH7qpsAl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tPRH7qpsAl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlotte Hornets (@hornets) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hornets\/status\/2102548669568332055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790138294_747_logo.png\" alt=\"Charlotte Hornets logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Hornets receive:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Hield<br \/>\nRyan Nembhard\u00a0<br \/>\nCash considerations<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790138295_270_logo.png\" alt=\"Atlanta Hawks logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Hawks receive:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets had acquired Finney-Smith and three second-round draft picks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/dorian-finney-smith-hornets-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from the Houston Rocket<\/a>s earlier this offseason. Finney-Smith spent last season with Houston but played sparingly and the Rockets were simply looking to unload his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Hield played 51 games last season for the Warriors and Hawks and averaged 7.6 points per game. Nembhard played in 60 games last season for the Mavericks, averaging 6.6 points and 5.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorian Finney-Smith, a 10-year veteran, averaged 3.3 points last season with the Rockets. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,470372,590,85],"class_list":["post-902105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hornets-hawks-trade-dorian-finney-smith","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902105","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=902105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}