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ATLANTA \u2014 The Atlanta Hawks<\/a> had a busy trade deadline as they tried to fix the flaws of a disappointing team. Beneath the chaos, the Hawks quietly created a new trade exception to replace another expiring one.<\/p>\n

Hawks Quietly Reset Countdown Timer On Trade Exceptions<\/h2>\n
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Jan 7, 2026; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Hawks guard Luke Kennard (3) shown warming up on the court prior to the game against the New Orleans Pelicans at State Farm Arena. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Atlanta sits ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 26\u201329 record after a hopeful start to the season. A flurry of summer moves pushed Atlanta to the top of many preseason rankings. Injuries and inconsistency have derailed a campaign filled with promise. The team has adjusted expectations and even made franchise-altering decisions, including trading<\/a> Trae Young<\/a> to Washington.<\/p>\n

Deadline Maneuvering<\/strong><\/h3>\n

At the trade deadline, GM Onsi Saleh had to be creative to maximize his assets. The Hawks held several expiring contracts, including Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is<\/a>, Luke Kennard<\/a>, the recently acquired CJ McCollum<\/a>, and Corey Kispert.<\/a> They traded the former and kept the latter two. Saleh also worked his magic in the Kennard deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resetting the Trade Exception Clock<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Hawks had multiple trade exceptions expiring at the deadline. Saleh used the largest, worth $13.1 million from the Terance Mann<\/a>\u2013Bogdan Bogdanovi\u0107<\/a> deal, to absorb Gabe Vincent.<\/a> Atlanta then generated a new $11 million exception equal to Kennard\u2019s salary. That exception gives them a useful asset for the next trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Atlanta also holds three other exceptions from the Clint Capela<\/a> ($6.7 million), Kobe Bufkin<\/a> ($4.5 million), and Young ($1.3 million) trades. Those expire in the coming months, with Capela\u2019s lasting into the summer. Atlanta projects to have $11 million in cap space and access to the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which would cap them at the first apron next season ($210 million).<\/p>\n

ATLANTA \u2014 The Atlanta Hawks had a busy trade deadline as they tried to fix the flaws of a disappointing team. Beneath the chaos, the Hawks quietly created a new trade exception to replace another expiring one. Hawks Quietly Reset Countdown Timer On Trade Exceptions Atlanta sits ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 26\u201329 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5018,"featured_media":177405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[62,4,1608,3,4721],"tags":[50244,49671,1382,662],"class_list":["post-177398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-news","category-trade-rumors","tag-2025-26-nba-season","tag-exceptions","tag-nba-trade","tag-nba-trade-deadline"],"modified_by":"Frederick Okocha","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177398","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\/5018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177406,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177398\/revisions\/177406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}