The Atlanta Hawks found a way to hop into the Kevin Durant trade.
No, KD isn't coming to Atlanta. He's going from the Suns to the Rockets, as has already been reported.
But the deal is now a seven-team bonanza involving the Suns, Rockets, Hawks, Lakers, Warriors, Timberwolves and Nets.
A big reason Atlanta wound up involved was because their former player Clint Capela is going to the Rockets, and that was turned into a sign-and-trade.
According to Marc Spears, in addition to that, The Hawks get a 2nd-round pick swap in 2031 (from Houston) and cash from Houston.
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They don't send out anything besides Capela.
And although the Hawks are getting Nickeil Alexander-Walker as a free agent signee from Minnesota, it doesn't appear that he made it into the seven-team madness. He'll just have to settle for being a standard free agent signing.
All in all, not a huge role for the Hawks to play, but during the league's moratorium period where deals couldn't be made official yet, Atlanta found a way to pick up a couple of assets (and a traded player exception) for a departing Capela who was gone either way. By turning it into a sign-and-trade, he didn't leave town for totally nothing.
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