Can you be a conference finalist team while having perfectly managed finances? The answer is yes, and the Atlanta Hawks are here to prove it. With a squad filled with talented young players, reasonably paid veterans, and flexibility masterfully managed by Travis Schlenk, the Georgia franchise is in great shape… today. Zoom on the salaries of the Hawks, with a certain penchant for versatile wingers.
A short practical guide to Salary Cap and the Exceptions
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Financial situation in relation to the course
- The Luxury Tax threshold is set at $ 136,606,000 this year.
- The NBA’s Salary Cap is set at $ 112,404,000 this year.
- With 133,063,290$ contractually committed to this 2021-22 season, the Hawks are managing their business well and do not have a huge long-term contract that could cripple their flexibility.
- As the smartest have seen, the 2 years added to Clint Capela’s deal are not yet in the pipe. But for the rest ? It’s a small, up-to-date masterpiece that is managed by Travis Schlenk, he who did not offer a huge contract and has left room for the Hawks’ future. Trae Young has logically taken his big check for the rookie phenomenon, John Collins was entitled to a deal as correct for him as for his franchise (26 million the season in his prime), and we are waiting to see who will be the next to get his good deal. Kevin Huerter before the resumption of the season? De’Andre Hunter or Cam Reddish if satisfied with their 3 year? At the Atlanta owners, the message was clear this summer after exceptional playoffs: we must take advantage of the current era because the Hawks will not be able to keep everyone to eternal life. That being said, by dint of distributing good little contracts to the right to the left, the Atlanta wage bill will start to be severe in 2-3 years and this is where the thorny questions will have to be asked. Put everything in a package and deal in exchange for a superstar? Let go of a hope and see it explode elsewhere? Atlanta can pay the tax if management feels that group is a contender for the title, but at the moment they are not.
Players with guaranteed contracts for the following season: 4
- John Collins
- Bring young
- Clint Chapel
- Bogdan Bogdanovic
- Gallinari’s 2022-23 season is not guaranteed, and his record will be one to watch very closely in this regard in the coming months as rumors will follow one another. Apart from that ? It’s a shock quartet that is already expected for the following year, while waiting to see if De’Andre Hunter take a big Jaylen Brown-style check like we saw in Boston. The whole question of this financial flexibility game will revolve around the method Travis Schlenk has used for some time now. Will boys like Onyeka Okongwu, Sharife Cooper and Jalen Johnson perform well enough to make departures possible? The Hawks have created a young core deep enough so that (1) expenses remain light and (2) transfers are better digested. In the event that another boy stands out, it will make another (Reddish) necessarily more out than in the project.
Three players in interesting situations this season
- Danilo Gallinari : the planets are not very well aligned for the Italian, a few weeks before the start of the new season. And the reason is simple, if his contribution is significant by having helped this young group to pass a course in the hot moments, Gallo is a defensive lamppost who could quickly become a problem to keep on the ground more than anything else. And with the emergence of a boy like De’Andre Hunter, able to play a strong-winger, pending the debut of Prototype 4 Jalen Johnson, Danilo’s playing time might drop as fast as injuries do. ‘accumulate. With an unsecured 2022-23 season and rumors constantly surfacing, it could quickly smell like stale tiramisu for the veteran.
- Cam Reddish : Cam and Hunter were drafted the same year, but this is perhaps the only common point that we can find in these two youngsters. No one can really deny the talent Reddish possesses, however is he a player capable of claiming a big contract at the end of the third pro season? De’Andre proved, in a very short space of time, that the future would draw with him on the wings of Atlanta, waiting to see the boy’s actual ceiling. The same cannot be said of Cam Reddish, who has everything to prove. An explosive exit against the Bucks, of course, but repeated injuries, above all, and an irregularity to make Dion Waiters cry. So can Reddish go for a big deal in the summer of 2022? It’s up to him to prove it.
- Lou Williams : he was on the verge of retirement, and he was picked up by the Hawks at the deadline. He solidified the group and helped Nate McMillan get his point across, with Trae Young going so far as to make it clear that Sweet Lou stay in his sweet Georgia. It is therefore for one more year that Williams will send buckets out of the bench, but is it the last of his career? There is a feeling of the year bonus offered to Lou, in the sense that he will pass a few messages to Sharife Cooper and he may occasionally catch fire. But with the arrival of Delon Wright as the official back-up of Ice Trae, the evenings in tracksuit will be really numerous with the best all-time scorer of the players coming off the bench.
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