Atlanta Hawks four-time All-Star Trae Young 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
But the Hawks appear poised to turn the page on a new era with the emergence of forward Jalen Johnson, who entered Monday averaging 24 points, 10.2 rebounds and 8.5 assists, and free agent acquisition Nickeil Alexander-Walker, 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 entering Monday, 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.\u00a0<\/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 six games.\u00a0<\/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.\u00a0<\/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":2,"featured_media":255556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[118777,49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-391038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}