7:04pm: The trade is now official, the Rockets and Hawks formally confirmed in a pair of press releases.
1:33pm: The Hawks are trading Justin Holiday and Frank Kaminsky to the Rockets for Garrison Mathews and Bruno Fernando, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweets.
The Rockets are also acquiring two second-round picks that the Thunder owed the Hawks in 2024 and 2025, Kelly Iko of The Athletic tweets.
The trade provides some salary cap relief for Atlanta. Holiday is making approximately $6.3MM and Kaminsky is on a veteran’s minimum deal (approximately $2.46MM). Fernando ($2.7MM) and Mathews ($2MM) have non-guaranteed contracts for next season, Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets. There’s also a team option on Matthews’ contract for 2024/25.
None of the players in the deal were playing significant minutes. Holiday has played in 28 game this season, averaging 4.5 points in 14.7 minutes. Kaminsky has seen spot duty in 26 games.
Fernando has played 30 games (four starts) this season, averaging 4.0 points and 3.7 rebounds in 11.7 minutes. Mathews has appeared in 45 games off the bench this season, averaging 4.8 points in 13.4 minutes.
The 34th overall pick in 2019, Fernando spent his first two seasons in Atlanta, so the Hawks are familiar with him as a person and player.
I like what the Hawks did here with a minor move. Mathews has use in Atlanta, Fernando is another story, but still has a little future promise.
Definitely a $ move to get under the tax line but Bruno was definitely loved by everyone in the organization when he was here & he’s improved since he was here. Garry Bird could be useful if his shot is falling. If not this is an opportunity for Vit to climb his way closer to the rotation.
“The trade provides some salary cap relief for Atlanta.”
Dana should’ve mentioned this trade brings them under luxury tax, because otherwise I dont like the trade at all.
Two 2nd rounders of OKC are likely to land high and is too much for it. Guess they were running out of time to get a better deal?
They got over the tax line in the Sadiq Bey / Wiseman deal I guess? Dont understand how that deal worked salary-wise.
I also think Spurs didnt maximise their trade deadline. They should have started to do salary dumps for whatever they could get, as they are still below the salary floor. They couldve signed Holiday or Kaminsky into cap space for less than two 2nd rounders.
It’s disrespectful to Larry Bird when you nickname Matthews that. Horrible comparison. Bruno is 6’9 and should be playing PF. Not all white ppl are the same
I hate to see these two go but wish them luck in Atlanta. I know Fernando with Rockets was seeing more time over Garuba with Houston. Matthews had his moments but did not seem so strong this season. So hope they can help Atlanta for remaining time of season