The Hawks and Jazz reportedly agreed to a trade on Monday which will ship electric power forward John Collins to Utah.
The Jazz will receive Collins in exchange for veteran forward Rudy Gay and a future 2nd-round draft selection, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
The Jazz are predicted to soak up the remainder of Collins’s five-calendar year, $125 million deal he signed ahead of the 2021-22 time. He’s obtained three extra yrs on the deal and is owing close to $78 million during that span, despite the fact that he has a participant choice really worth $26.58 million in advance of the 2025-26 period, at which point he could perhaps choose out.
Offloading Collins’s wage will help the Hawks to be players on the free-agency market. Atlanta obtained a $25 million trade exception as a consequence of the offer with the Jazz, which will allow the Hawks to further more fortify the roster.
Collins is getting into his seventh year in the NBA. After a robust get started to his occupation, the 25-yr-aged endured anything of a down calendar year in 2022-23, averaging 13.1 factors and capturing a job-worst 29.2% from a few-issue assortment.
