{"id":519888,"date":"2026-01-06T09:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:20:38","slug":"trae-young-hawks-working-on-trade-with-wizards-named-potential-suitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/519888\/","title":{"rendered":"Trae Young, Hawks working on trade, with Wizards named potential suitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlanta Hawks and star guard Trae Young appear to be headed toward a separation<\/a>. Atlanta general manager Onsi Saleh has been in \u201cpositive and collaborative talks\u201d with Young over a potential trade, according to ESPN’s Chams Sharania. After parts of eight seasons in Atlanta, his time with the Hawks looks to be coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Charania has noted that talks over his future with the team aren’t exactly new. In fact, they date back before the season<\/a>. Atlanta did not offer the four-time All-Star a contract extension when it came time to pick up his player option. As a result, questions around his future have been in the air ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hawks and Young’s agents have maintained positive dialogue on his future ever since the franchise elected not to offer a contract extension last summer ahead of his 2026 player option. Now the sides are working together on a trade out of Atlanta,\u201d Charania reported on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day Monday, it was reported that Young was open-minded about moving on from the Hawks. It was also reported that the Washington Wizards<\/a> had emerged as a potential landing spot for the four-time All-Star. Any deal with Washington would revolve around<\/a> the expiring contract of CJ McCollum, according to NBA insider Marc Stein.<\/p>\n

Young has only played a handful of games for the Hawks<\/a> this season. He dealt with a right MCL sprain earlier in this season and has dealt with complications of that injury ever since. More recently, he has been dealing with a quad contusion that has caused him to miss each of Atlanta’s last five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Hawks and star guard Trae Young appear to be headed toward a separation. Atlanta general manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[208,7,6,6050,1540,494,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-519888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-rumors","12":"tag-nba-stories","13":"tag-trae-young","14":"tag-washington","15":"tag-washington-wizards","16":"tag-washingtonwizards","17":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115847418724660365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}