The Hawks cleverly exchange at 23, recover 2026 without protected first

With the 13th choice in total – their only choice of draft arriving this evening (except another job) – The Hawks of Atlanta decided to descend and take additional draft capital. Shams Charania of ESPN has this report:

This gives Hawks two first round choices next year (this one more favorable to the choices of Hawks and Spurs in the original trade in Dejounte Murray) to descend ten places in this project. This is a clever decision for the new Managing Director Onsi Saleh to start to replenish the Draft firm for the Hawks.