{"id":148155,"date":"2025-06-30T20:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=148155"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:42:53","slug":"hawks-timberwolves-complete-nickeil-alexander-walker-sign-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/06\/30\/hawks-timberwolves-complete-nickeil-alexander-walker-sign-and-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks, Timberwolves Complete Much Anticipated Sign-And-Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to a sign-and-trade that will bring 3-and-D guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alexani01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> to the Atlanta Hawks on a four-year, $62 million deal, according to ESPN senior insider Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<h2>Hawks, Timberwolves Complete Much Anticipated Nickeil Alexander-Walker Sign-And-Trade<\/h2>\n<p>Alexander-Walker\u2019s new contract is highly favorable for him. It includes not only a player option but a trade kicker. For facilitating the transaction, the Timberwolves <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939840810356281642\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will receive a 2027 second-round pick<\/a> that originally belonged to the Cleveland Cavaliers and cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free agent Nickeil Alexander-Walker has agreed to a four-year, $62 million deal with the Atlanta Hawks, plus a player option and trade kicker, sources tell ESPN. CAA Co-Heads of Basketball Aaron Mintz\/Austin Brown and Steven Heumann reached the contract with the Hawks tonight. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G93cmxsHGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/G93cmxsHGo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939838544794779934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Alexander-Walker has already played for Hawks head coach Quin Snyder, albeit briefly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_148164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148164\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/06\/IMG_7246.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mar 18, 2022; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder talks with guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker (6) in the third quarter at Vivint Arena. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Swinger-USA TODAY Sports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a series of trades, the Ontario native landed with the Utah Jazz \u2014Snyder\u2019s former team \u2014in 2022. In the 15 games that the two spent with the same organization, he averaged 12.8 points, 4.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game, posting a +6.6 on-court plus-minus. However, he shot just 30.3 percent from 3. Since then, the 26-year-old has become a strong outside shooter, knocking down 38.5 percent of his 3s.<\/p>\n<p>As he reunites with Snyder, he figures to be a core member of the rotation for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Jeffrey Swinger-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Timberwolves have agreed to a sign-and-trade that will bring 3-and-D guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker to the Atlanta Hawks on a four-year, $62 million deal, according to ESPN senior insider Shams Charania. Hawks, Timberwolves Complete Much Anticipated Nickeil Alexander-Walker Sign-And-Trade Alexander-Walker\u2019s new contract is highly favorable for him. It includes not only a player option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":148165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1608,21,62,3],"tags":[1382,947,1003],"class_list":["post-148155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-timberwolves","category-nba","category-news","tag-nba-trade","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-quin-snyder"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148169,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148155\/revisions\/148169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}