{"id":394858,"date":"2026-01-07T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:54:08","slug":"atlanta-hawks-trae-young-has-wizards-as-top-trade-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394858\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks’ Trae Young has Wizards as top trade destination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Hawks<\/a> star Trae Young<\/a> has the Washington Wizards<\/a> as his preferred destination as the player and his current team work together on a possible trade, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s agents, Aaron Mintz, Drew Morrison and Austin Brown, continue to have conversations with the Hawks about a resolution toward a trade out of Atlanta, sources said. The team is in active trade talks on multiple fronts, those sources said.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is working to trade Young, who has a $49 million player option in the offseason that would make him an expiring contract. He could also opt out in the offseason, leave as a free agent and give the Hawks almost $40 million in cap space.<\/p>\n

Young has been the face of the Hawks\u2019 franchise since he was drafted in 2018 and sits as the team\u2019s career 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 to a new era with the emergence this season of forward Jalen Johnson<\/a>, who is averaging 23.7 points, 10.4 rebounds and 8.4 assists in 34 games, and free agent acquisition Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a>, who is averaging a career-high 20.5 points in 36 appearances.<\/p>\n

Young has dealt with leg injuries this season that have limited him to only 10 games.<\/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 with a right quad contusion that has caused him to sit out the past five games.<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young has the Washington Wizards as his preferred destination as the player and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[118777,49,48,459,82,118778],"class_list":["post-394858","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","tag-trae-young-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1060978"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394858","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=394858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}