{"id":391243,"date":"2026-01-06T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391243\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:33:07","slug":"atlanta-hawks-star-trae-young-working-on-trade-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391243\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Hawks, star Trae Young working on trade \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ATLANTA \u2014 Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young and his agents are reportedly working to find him a new team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">ESPN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/contributor\/shams-charania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shams Charania<\/a> first reported Monday that Young and Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh have started \u201cpositive and collaborative talks\u201d to trade him, according to sources. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2008295939690119625\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2008295939690119625\">Longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein <\/a>reports that the Washington Wizards are one of the potential destinations for Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/smart-tv\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">There have been rumors of Young, who was drafted in 2018 then sent to Hawks in a deal with the Mavericks, wanting a trade for years. After the 2024 season ended, Channel 2\u2019s Alison Mastrangelo\u00a0asked Young if he wants to stay in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI want to be here. But I want to win, too,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/trae-young-his-future-with-hawks-i-want-win-championships-here\/5QZTTDJCMRHXBAQVHWIEGUEWKQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/trae-young-his-future-with-hawks-i-want-win-championships-here\/5QZTTDJCMRHXBAQVHWIEGUEWKQ\/\">Young said in April 2024<\/a>. \u201cI want to be here. I want to win championships here and do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Young has played in limited games so far this season because of knee and quad injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young and his agents are reportedly working to find him a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,2968,99,2969],"class_list":["post-391243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-npstrans","tag-sports","tag-toppic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}