ESPN Sources: The Hawks are finalizing a trade to send F/C John Collins to the Jazz for Rudy Gay and a future second-round pick. Atlanta’s largely unloading Collins’ three years, $78M for some roster building flexibility and alignment with looming changes to salary cap.
ESPN Sources: The Hawks are finalizing a trade to send F/C John Collins to the Jazz for Rudy Gay and a future second-round pick. Atlanta’s largely unloading Collins’ three years, $78M for some roster building flexibility and alignment with looming changes to salary cap. pic.twitter.com/CpAfTNXKMq
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 26, 2023
by ahend1999
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HOMY SHIT HES NOT ON THE FUCKING TWAM ANYMORE WOAH
i love you jc so much im gonna miss you
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Rudy Gay, finally
Can’t believe it finally happened
Goodbye JC. Thanks for everything
The deal to acquire Collins delivers the Jazz a versatile forward to play alongside All-Star Lauri Markkanen and All-Rookie center Walker Kessler. The Hawks and Jazz have discussed numerous iterations of the deal for over a year.
The Hawks are expected to continue to be in a deal-making mode this offseason and ownership has given GM Landry Fields the OK to move into the luxury tax should it be necessary to improve the roster, sources said.
Rudy Gay exercised his $6.4M option for the 2023-2024 season, his agent Sam Permut of @Rocnationsports tells ESPN — and that cleared the way for the trade that can’t be formalized until July 6.
#THE MISSING PIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wasn’t expecting much but this is still very underwhelming
Trading for Gay during Pride Month, big W
Dam 💔
Yeah, seems like the mandate to get under the salary cap was true. They gave away JC for a 2nd round pick
oh my god we finally don’t have to deal with that bs contract man
I heard Trae and JC were beefing
The meme prophecy has been fulfilled
What is this, a crossover meme?
My mind totally went blank at first and I forgot Rudy gobert was with the Timberwolves. I was so confused.
A single 2nd round pick and the corpse of a 36 year old it’s incredible how low his stock fell ever since signing for the GDP of New Zealand 3 years ago.
FINALLY
jc and kev in the west and not on an east team yassssss 😭😭
trae young is now the longest tenured hawk.
This is so stupid and so bad.
Damn I’ll admit it I was on the JC train for too long and now we him sold for a bag of chips ugh.
Glad this is over, hope he balls the fuck out
I used to pray for times like this
I like JC. Will always like JC. He just wasn’t a great fit on this team.
Lmao what a fucking meme
It had to be done imo 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Hope he does well in Utah
We got off his contract. That’s a win in my book. It simply was not a good deal for us
Damn it really happened. Thanks for the memories and the awesome t-shirt, JC.
Gay af
I READ RUDY GOBERT FIRST
🙁
Gueye in the second round is also pronounced the same way as Rudy. Now, Had we just been able to draft Dick, I would’ve listened to the radio broadcast just so my 12 year old self could laugh my ass off.
My favorite part is a few tweets later in the thread Woj says the team is expected to continue to be in “deal-making mode”. This team is fundamentally flawed to a 6-8 seed first round exit ceiling. We’ve seen it for two years now. Gotta change a lot.
i will sorely miss his goofy ass man this hurts but i understand
someone tell me how to feel. I know logically this is the right move given the looming salary cap changes but I won’t lie i’m pretty devastated. JC is the guy who kept me motivated to watch those god fucking awful hawks teams his rookie and soph year.
2/3s of my profile pic gone, its so sad, but we will always have 2021
RIP sweet Prince
nooooooooooooooo!
Should’ve done the Barnes trade last draft but it is what it is. I’m just happy to have his contract off us. I also am a huge Jalen johnson believer so I love this for him.
Noo the Baptist 😔. Watched this man first summer league game where he had a poster and his historic Embiid dunk. Hope Johnny C do well in Utah
This was necessary but will be kinda sad to see him in another uniform. The Embiid dunk is one of those plays that will stick with me forever
We have to be getting ready for another move right?
Be free John. I wear your shirt of your dunk on Embiid with pride.
I’m going to miss the hell out of John Collins
Dumping John Collins without attaching a pick to him is a massive W
This is exactly what I thought we’d end up doing with how bad JC’s contract was, how Jalen Johnson has been progressing, our cap situation and Dejounte’s looming free agency. I’m just surprised we got an asset back and we didn’t have to give an asset up to dump the contract.
I like JC, I think he was a net positive for this team all considered. Loved his attitude, and he made some big plays. He just wasn’t worth that contract, and in the end we’re basically choosing between keeping JC or keeping Dejounte. This isn’t a tax dodging move for the sake of Ressler paying more either, we needed to make this move to be able to offer Dejounte a max contract and still make moves to improve our roster.
All in all I’m sad to see JC go but I’m glad it’s finally over. This puts us in a much healthier situation roster construction-wise and we don’t have to get rid of a more valuable player like Capela, Okongwu, or Dejounte. Overall a win.
I hate to see JC the person leave. Great dude, teammate and leader On the bright side at-least he is going to a Western conference team, plus its his hometown.How much does this save us?