The Hawks couldn’t work out a deal involving John Collins prior to the trade deadline and will hold onto their starting power forward through at least the end of the season, tweets Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report.
Collins has been a frequent subject of trade rumors, even before signing a five-year, $125MM extension in 2021. That salary has scared away some potential suitors, as Collins is still owed nearly $52MM over the next two seasons and holds a $26.58MM player option for 2025/26.
The Pistons, Suns, Jazz and Nets were among the teams linked to Collins ahead of this year’s deadline, but a recent report indicated that the new regime running Atlanta’s front office values Collins more than the old group did and has no intention of giving him away cheaply.
Collins, 25, who has been with Atlanta since he was drafted in 2017, is having another productive season, averaging 13.2 points and 7.4 rebounds in 47 games.
They need his spacing at the 5 and now they added what they needed with Bey, so they should be a lot better, among a bunch of other teams that got significantly better as well
John don’t play 5, unless somebody’s hurt
Now wait a minute lol… this is the complete opposite of what I been reading on here. Lol link the dozens & dozens of articles for months/yrs saying JC was definitely getting traded, don’t just link the 1 where yall finally realized he wasn’t a few days ago
Lolz
But anyway great deadline day for my Hawks. We got better & added a coveted 2way forward who’s cheap & just about to enter his prime much like the rest of our core. And we didn’t have to give up any rotation guys, any of our young prospects or any of our 1sts. We also obv didn’t give up JC who is right there w/ Tony Ressler as 1 ofthe longest tenured guys in the organization. If JC can get more used to the new normal that is shooting with his mangled hand then he’ll be right back to the borderline all-star that he was for yrs before the injury
You own the Hawks?
This is no surprise. Teams know the Hawks have painted themselves into a corner financially, and have no design on using Collins like they once had. They need to move his contract more than other teams want to take his contract. They don’t want to pay assets to get anyone to take it for expiring contracts. Hence the impasse of no deal for so long while they have suggested he’s available. In the meantime, the franchise will flop on making any progress in becoming more competitive, never nearing contention. The clocks keep turning, and the time keeps draining. Stubborn, everyone remains, that the price on Collins is not right. Who loses most?
This franchise is doing this kid dirty (- his pay) but every trade deadline and offseason they look to trade him and never pull the trigger either trade him or stop doing what ur doing I’m sure it’s messing with his mind and feelings their just lucky he’s not like B. Simmons
Bummer. Would love for him to go to a contender one of these days. 365 more days of hearing about how he can’t play with Tre…smdh