Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

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BREAKING: The Atlanta Hawks are trading four-time NBA All-Star Trae Young to the Washington Wizards for CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert, sources tell ESPN.


Moving Young also provides Atlanta with added financial flexibility to pursue a large salary over the next several months – with Dallas Mavericks star Anthony Davis as a prime in-season trade target.

Atlanta is $8.3mm under the tax after this deal.  It narrows down the possibilities a bit if the goal is to keep Atlanta under the tax after an AD deal.  It also takes Atlanta up to 15 players (they had been at 14).  

If the deal is KP/Kennard/Risacher for AD, it leaves them $9.1mm under the tax, but that is a 3 for 1 deal, so Dallas would need to send out more people.  Kispert could end up here as there are ways of doing him without aggregating him.