Hawks Make SNEAKY good trade... This has MASSIVE implications

The Atlanta Hawks have traded away, in my opinion, somebody that was on his way to riding the ship. DeAndre Hunter is out of Atlanta, and I just don't know what to think about it. We got Chris Tipmore. He's going to dissect every single thing in regards to that trade. The trade deadline is an hour past us, so we're going to talk about not all, but all of the trades that the Atlanta Hawks have taken and how they've gone through them. I think there was another one that kind of came in the midnight hour proverbially and uh we got to go into that um a lot of uh I think your word for it was um salary management yeah cutting cutting salary if you will cutting salary well before we get any further this is Atlanta Hawks Digest my name is Walter Pollard and I am accompanied by none other than Chris Tipmore and um yeah we're here listen get used to these faces get used to them okay you're gonna see a lot more of us and definitely you're gonna see a lot more of us doing a lot of lives and a lot of videos together because I feel as though we have a Chris we have a good chemistry thus far we definitely tested it out a couple couple hours ago and now I think this is something that could really go through yeah man we know we're both Hawks fans you know also it's a good thing that We're both Georgia boys and everything like that. So, you know, it all kind of, you know what I'm saying, works and comes together, you know. 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And we always love the comments, always love, you know, so you give them your feedback. and if you're not a part of the Hawks Digest yet man come on over to the Hawks Digest making us one of your first listens when it comes to Hawks content man for sure me and Walter were doing our thing over here yes sir so of course uh DeAndre Hunter uh he's been traded away to and this is what gets me he's been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers who i mean granted yes we've got our we've got our punches on them you know we got definitely got two good wins away and got two good wins off of them earlier this year we took a loss uh not too long ago but uh we definitely were able to get some good shots at these guys and they're the they're like the number one team in the east yeah they are we trade away somebody who was a glimmer of light in my opinion we give him to the best team in the i'm confused chris you have all the information to break it down uh what is it just let me know what's going on man okay of course you know um and i i stated back you know it's in a couple of videos ago man that you know DeAndre Hunter was someone that the Cavs were looking at and you know Mark Stein he came out with it today earlier and when i seen him i it kind of like you know it's made the little little sweat come down like oh boy this thing may be really catching some fire right right so of course now Hunter has been traded for Caris LeVert who is an expiring contract so the Hawks were cutting salary in that regard George Niang he's on a three-year deal but it's only like eight million dollars per year um three uh three second round picks and two pick swaps now when you look at it it's like okay well the Hawks you know they made a good trade now i mean it's subjective very subjective you know what i'm saying and you know every fan has their opinion but when you looked at that trade you're like we just let a 20 point scorer go out of the door for LeVert and Niang and some picks you know and again that's what i was saying about cutting that salary because DeAndre Hunter was due like 24 25 mil all by himself and moving next now you got Caris LeVert who was yet another expiring contract only at 16 and you had George Niang the Hawks were still over the salary cap after making that trade so you had so you knew that more moves were coming you just like you didn't want to see DeAndre Hunter leave the Atlanta Hawks since 2019 bro we've been waiting for a year like this from DeAndre Hunter you know saying now take this with a grain of salt okay all right we have been waiting the same thing that i just said yeah is this you know how they say the same things that make you laugh make you cry yes we've been waiting since 2019 for DeAndre Hunter to have this type of year and you know i'm saying so grand opening grand closing he's gone i mean i don't like it but at the end of the day you got to understand it like we've been waiting this long for him to do something like this and at the trade deadline supposedly this can possibly be like the highest his his trade value could have ever been right right i counter that point with you possibly could have waited until the end of the season and drove up the price if just let's just imagine him getting that six man of the year award with the Atlanta Hawks it's almost like let's make a deal right right in the off season the price can go up some because i just got the six man of the year and i can possibly you know put him in a trade that way the hawks didn't want to do that they don't want to take that risk they just said let's go ahead and and cash in right now you know i said let's not even take the chance of him possibly getting injured anytime this year right possibly falling off anytime this year so that's why it's almost like maximizing on the moment that's what i feel like the hawks did just trying to find some type of way to uh to find some optimism in this trade because do i like that the player is gone no i don't now if they're waiting so long for him to perform like this but that's also another reason why he possibly could have been traded along with salary yeah of course that that's that's first and foremost it ain't got nothing to do with the player it's the business side of things the business so that's what i'm saying so my question to you in that regard and i hope i didn't cut you off or not but my my question then in that part is because if it's the business side of things and we gotta you know i i i've been doing my research been looking up some stuff and i remember earlier in the season they adjusted the salary not the salary cap but the um luxury tax and i believe that there were two or three levels to it correct well yeah you got the luxury tax you got the first apron second apron nobody wants to be in that second apron that's kind of like denver that's kind of like where denver hovers and um they're a second they were second apron team and they can't make a lot of moves they it's supposed to try to make things more fair okay you know i'm saying league wise that's really hawks set themselves like how does the hawks how did the hawks and their moves today help them or hurt them in this regard well i mean as far as if we're talking about just straight salary and cap and everything like that they definitely helped their cause all the way around because they're they were over the luxury tax and then when they made the trade for deandre hunter they were over the luxury tax you know i'm saying then uh next thing you know and this is a part of like the whole business thing that we were talking about bro because they they pretty much uh robbed peter to pay paul okay oh you know what i'm saying right right because with the deandre hunter thing they did they then took those three second round picks and flipped them with bogdan bogdanovich and went and got terence man and bones holland from the clippers wow okay now get into that because we briefly talked about that in pre-production yeah we do pre-production y'all this is we're real deal you feel me but in pre-production you were talking to me in regards to this trade and it almost loosened up my brows you know uh because you know you're scrunched up and frustrated because of DeAndre Hunter leaving but now you hear about this move in regards to Bogey and and him going to the Clippers how does did we what did what what happened did we did we kind of make good on our deals how did this work this this trade did make me feel a little better um you know i said because i mean at the end of the day we got rid of two players one who had trouble staying healthy and Bogey i mean yes i love Bob Dombrowski i do he was our sniper for many seasons when we first got him uh from the Kings when he was redirected from the Bucks coming to Atlanta i was excited because i knew that we had a sniper but our sniper has not been healthy our sniper has not been able to get it going like that this season so him making uh the 17 mil that it is you flip that and you send it to the Clippers Clippers get a guy who can spot up and shoot and can you know i said get hot and when he does we already know what Bogey does right he had the nickname Bogey Buckets so it's just like with that trade you get back a young guy in Terrence Mann and in Bones Hyland Bones Hyland quick story about him he got traded from the Denver Nuggets to the Clippers because he wanted a bigger role now maybe he'll get a bigger role in atlanta same thing with terrence man so do you see him do you see him being a factor now because that's I think that's what most fans are looking for when we see trades. We see Luka going to L.A., though he's not necessarily playing just yet. He's still dealing with an injury. We know that he can make an effect now. Anthony Davis can make an effect now. Who is going to or can make an effect now for the Atlanta Hawks? Well, the thing about it is, coming into the season, everyone had reservations about Dyson Daniels, correct? Right, right. Dyson Daniels, but this is the thing about it is when I seen that trade, I was like, oh, we finally have a pointer to attack somebody that can attack that and guard the best player and, you know what I'm saying, also help Trey Young out on the offensive end, defensive end. You know, that's what I seen from Dyson Daniels. People were saying, worried about his offense. I'm not going to lie. I'm not tripping about that. I understand. But, you know what I'm saying, look at how the pleasant surprise of Dyson Daniels. I'm thinking they're trying to go back to the well on that and banking that Terrence Mann could have a similar resilience to that, coming in, getting more opportunities, more time. Maybe he can come. I mean, he's coming off the bench, but he's still going to get time in Atlanta. You know, that's what I'm saying. He's still going to get time in Atlanta. JJ is gone. Dre is now gone. That's 40 points per game that is off the team now for this season. for this season correct so that so it the scoring gotta come from somewhere and it can't be all on trey and now you got trey young is the one guy that you know that can put the ball in the basket 100 percent on the team second was deandre hunter for me but now he's gone uh dyson daniels has been a pleasant surprise being able to score like 19 points the past few games yes but you still need scoring george niang he's a three-point shooter he at least can shoot the three hopefully you He'll be able to get some buckets for Atlanta in that regard. Khris LeVert, that's a wild card because he's been called the diet version of SGA. I'm just saying, that's a wild card, right? At the end of the day, I don't expect him to be on the Hawks next season. Okay, all of this that the Atlanta Hawks have done, including getting rid of Cody Zeller, because we traded Cody Zeller to the Rockets, him, and we gave the Rockets back their 2028 pick, second round pick. back just to take Cody Zeller and get us and get him off our team when we did that, that completed everything for the Atlanta Hawks, because we were back under the luxury tax and right now the Atlanta Hawks are plus three mil under the you know I'm saying uh under the luxury tax okay oh and and that and that is how I think that is what most fans because again I came from the barbershop just want to make sure y'all see it again normally I'm in a hat tighten up tighten up you feel me but that's what most of the guys wanted to know just to give you an overview um you know because we talk sports in the shop uh, and and I'm fortunate that my brother is there so I can definitely talk sports with him and the thing is most fans are frustrated not just with the Hawks, it's with the entire Atlanta landscape as far as sports is concerned you know the Falcons definitely made some shady moves you know before the season and after the season so I know the the temperature for Atlanta though it is a unseasonably warm day, it's pretty messed up it's pretty cold right now, and so go ahead my apologies no I just said no I was just saying you're absolutely right about that and um here's a tidbit for our Hawks fans too man um think about this too and too Walter think about this uh first of all Clint Capela I'm pretty sure is not going to have back spasms for too much longer that's the next thing he's still on the team he's still on the team with his expiring contract right Caris LeVert that's another expiring contract Larry Nance then you also have um Bones Hyland you also have David Roddy Garrison Matthews Dominic Barlow who's on a two-way Keenan Wallace who's on a two-way all these guys that i just named are free agents in 2025 that's what seven six or seven guys eight people i'm saying that's a lot of guys that's what i'm saying like there's so many guys who are going to be free agents at the end of the year so with that being said i'm not necessarily worried about what we're going to do the rest of this year even though the east is weak and we're only three games out of the sixth spot other teams you know so they're making kind of moves and stuff like that we'll see what happens um but i'm more interested to see what the hawks do in the in the offseason that's what i really go into is like because it sounds as if you know how a tsunami a tsunami happens you know the water is you know if it pushes back before it's a big wave of water and so could we be setting our could Could Landry Fields be setting the Hawks up for a major, major deal in the offseason prior to next season? Because quite frankly, most of the fans are questioning Trae Young is, hey, man, look, we won't be mad if you decide we would hate to see you leave. But at this point, something's got to give. And I do. And if it sounds like I'm in my soapbox, I kind of am, because you see certain things happen for others. air quotes or ergo uh uh Luca Dončić he's had over three or four superstars on his team uh Jalen Brunson, Kristaps Porzingis um Jason Kidd as a coach and Kyrie Irving you dig what i'm saying and yet that still isn't enough for him yet he you know he goes elsewhere i mean unbeknownst to him but my point is is that i didn't i don't think that Atlanta has done enough but with your explanation could this be a situation where we might be able to get or land a big fish or even if there's a big fish available you know Anthony Davis i don't know if he's gonna stay in uh uh in Dallas i'm not sure after this season so do you see that possibly happening well um the thing about it is i feel like you kind of just got a side eye everything right now right you still just the moves still have to be made you can have all this salary and still not able to sign guys that you want to sign you know people still have to agree money talks though you know so you know we'll have to see what goes on with that but my thing is at least you give yourself an opportunity like that's where you got to like try to find some solace in this whole trade scenario trade things and everything but you think about it our bench got a little deeper i mean Kyrie's LaVert, like I said, he's a wild card. George Niang, he can shoot the three, he plays the four. JJ's gone for the year. You need somebody at least in that aspect who can play the four and shoot. Small, I have yet to hear anybody above seven feet. We are small, bro. We don't have not a soul above seven feet, okay the closest guy that is, uh that was about seven feet. Well, I mean, Mo Bamba just went, just got shipped back down to College Park. He was like the tallest guy on the team and you know, I said like I think him and Clint Capela was right at 6'11". Mo Bamba may have been seven foot, okay. You know what I'm saying but regardless, you still have Clint Capela. You still have Larry Nance, you still have Darnell Barlow who's still with the team right now um, they didn't send him back down to College Park you know, so and you still have Double O. So I mean, you have somewhat of a front court. Clint expiring contract, don't expect him to be back again. Caris LeVert, another expiring contract don't expect to be back, but guys who will be with the team who you can surround around Trae Young is a role player like George Niang is a role player like Terrence Mann, but the fact that we have Dyson Daniels, Terrence Mann, and Zachary Richache, who is still, you know, evolving on the team. Defensively, I feel like we got better that way, especially, you know, on the perimeter, too, because Terrence Mann is a good perimeter defender as well. Again, I'm hoping that more offensive opportunities will blossom for Terrence Mann as one time against the Utah Jazz, I believe, like it was game six or something like that. he had 39 points seven made threes so if that can come to Atlanta and at least I ain't saying it's gonna be 39 points all the time right right right right if he can give me 15 a game hey you know I'm saying if you know if he can come off the bench and be something for the second unit then hey you know so expect to see Dyson Daniels and Terrence Mann on the floor together because when in the non-Trey Young minutes Dyson Daniels is the point guard a lot of times ladies and gentlemen oh go ahead my apologies no I was about saying you'll have Terrence Mann is the number two you can possibly still have Rich Shae out there too yep you know so I mean Quinn is going to have to play with the lineup a little bit more luckily we're not in the West if we was in the West I say the season is completely shot you might as well go ahead and get ready for the offseason to see what we can do but it's crazy because again we're only three games out yeah and let's see if we can you know I'm saying get into the playoffs I don't think the Bulls are going to leapfrog us I don't think so because they made I don't believe that yeah I don't and they made they got rid of Zach Levine and he was a dominant scorer for them over there but we'll see what happens I will say to that and i think i think fans should definitely pay attention to that because i spoke about it in a video earlier with Zach Levine going to the Sacramento Kings from the Bulls yes like you said you don't expect the Bulls to leapfrog as a matter of fact they've been a thorn in our side for most part of the early early part of this season but with Zach Levine going there now with the Kings they obviously they still want to win and if they can win we own the 12th pick uh we own their 12th unprotected pick so they continue to do well they make the playoffs heck they can even make the play in with the 11 with the 11 seed but I know that if they do that we get the pick from them so it still can work out for the Atlanta Hawks in some degree but it's just I will say it's quite jarring to see DeAndre Hunter leave in that regard because it's like man like he we waited like you said we waited six years to see him do this only the first time we saw I was in Virginia but then after that it just was like it was nothing it was mum's the word almost but that's just what we are make you laugh make you cry we've been waiting this long for Dre to ball like this but we've been waiting this long for Dre to ball like this ladies and gentlemen this is Atlanta Hawks Digest again my name is Walter Pollard that is Chris Tippmore get used to our faces uh thank you thank you for oh wait oh wait wait i love this do you have the uh do you have the eye you got the oh yeah we got to get a hawks the eye test we're gonna figure it out we said we watching you we are what landry fields we're watching you buddy chris is watching you for sure but we're definitely gonna be paying attention yeah listen we appreciate you guys definitely keep checking out the channel um i definitely i do believe we're at like but 603 604 views yeah man we over the 600 mark baby baby Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Get us a round of applause for that. So, major shouts out to all of you guys that have been watching. But, hey, with that being said, after the All-Star break is the rest of the season. And we'll see how things play out. In my honest opinion, they go no lower than eight. They go no lower than eight. I think they go no lower. Yeah. I think the worst case scenario is they stay right where they are in the ninth seed. Again, that's the bull some kind of way, catch fire and leapfrog us. But I still can see us being in the play-in, worst-case scenario. Like I said, the East is weak. There's still a long season left, but I still believe we win more games. I've been seeing people talking about, oh, the Hawks don't win more than 30 games now. And I'm just like, they fight, though. They're scrappy. Like that. Yeah. It is what it is. Ladies and gentlemen, Walter Pollard, Chris Moore, Chris Tip Moore. this is Atlanta Hawks Digest and we will see you guys later peace