9:21pm: Marc Stein of The New York Times has the protection details on the 2019 first-round pick going to Atlanta in the deal. According to Stein (via Twitter), it will be top-five protected in 2019 and 2020, top-three protected in 2021 and 2022, and fully unprotected in 2023.
6:47pm: The Mavericks and Hawks agreed to a blockbuster trade involving the No. 3 pick that allowed Dallas to draft Luka Doncic.
ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports (via Twitter) that the Hawks will acquire a 2019 first-round pick in the trade, while Atlanta took Trae Young at No. 5. No veteran players are involved in the deal, Woj adds (via Twitter).
Previous versions of the trade had Kent Bazemore going to Dallas and Wesley Matthews to Atlanta, but the Hawks were reluctant to add Matthews to a young, rebuilding team. They opted for a simple swap of picks, with some light protections on the future first-rounder. Atlanta had been hoping to free up some cap room by finding a taker for Bazemore, who is owed more than $18MM next season and has a player option worth nearly $19.3MM in 2019/20.
The teams were close to a trade around 5:00pm ET, tweets ESPN’s Jonathan Givony, but fell apart until the Mavs agree to include the future pick. The pick is scheduled to transfer next season, tweets Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports and will be top-five protected (Twitter link).
A source from the Mavericks, who described the protections as minimal to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon, said, “We hope it conveys next year.” (Twitter link).
Arthur Hill contributed to this post.
Schroeder will probably be traded by the end of the night.
Maybe pacers or bucks
Doncic next to Smith Jr? Impressive.
Oh great a non shooting guard as the shooting guard.
Apparently you have not seen Donic play.
Apparently you’ve seen him play against slow old men
The average age in the EuroLeague is generally mid 20s. It’s not an old man league.
Trae Young will be the 2018-19 Rookie of the Year. Now whether his career is great or he becomes the next Michael Carter-Williams is up for debate. But he will score 20 PPG next year.
Him and Dirk.
Remember Atlanta has people from GS in their front office. They must think Trae Young is the next Steph. I personally feel they should have gone with Jackson, but they pick up another asset. I question Dallas’s decision to move one of their assets. I feel like Doncic would have been there for them, but maybe Memphis did want him at 4. They’ll probably add a big in free agency
And with Kevin Huerter, they might think they got Steph and Klay in the same draft. They’re going to definitely be able to get up and down the floor with those guys and Prince, Bazemore, etc
Good comparison.
Atlanta GM Schlenk continues to make all the right moves. A free, high gift first to take a PG that could easily be just as good as the one traded out. Doncic, Young, IDK who will be best PG… though LAC did the best there IMO with two risers. What a backcourt with SGA and the BC Robinson.
ATL was supposed to be off Doncic until just a few days ago… probably Schlenk saw a business opportunity! It worked. Supposedly he liked Young all along, someone was posting that on HR.
It will surely be more tolerable watching Young key the offense than Schroder doing it.
I personally feel like Young had to be in the right situation, and I can see how Atlanta makes sense as a fit. Worked out for them b/c my strategy would have blown up when Jerome Robinson came off the board. I had them going with Jackson,Robinson, and Melvin Frazier. Spellman gives them more shooting and versatility, although he needs to work on his body
Bust!!! Hawks fleeced them for a dude thats ricky rubio lmao! Hahahaha
Lol, yup !!
This guy has been the most scouted and scrutinized Euro player ever. I think I’ll trust the scouts that he’ll be better than Rubio. Rubio is a great PG….he just shoudln’t have been drafted ahead of Curry or DeRozen.
Reminds me of Danilo Galinari
Dano is 6-10. Luke maybe 6-6. At that size he better be fast… but sorry he’s not.
Lol some of you people here are incredibly clueless. Luka is a million times better of a prospect that Rubio was. You’re only making that comparison because they are both from Europe and your clueless self doesn’t know any better.
Numbers don’t lie. 30% from 3 this last year.
Plus how is he going to get that shot off in the NBA? Do you think he’ll score over those guys drafted after him. ..Mikail Bridges? How can he even get a shot off against Mikhail Bridges…answer me that?
You haven’t given us anything to support your claim. Tell us why he’s a better Prospect than Ricky Rubio. Tell us why he deserves to be the number 3 pick in the NBA draft this year. You’re the one clueless LOL
And your support to your claim is that you’ve never seen him play lol
Unlike you I can’t afford bball scouting trips to Europe. It must be nice bro.
I’ve never been to Europe, but you dont need to see someone live.
Luka Doncic, age 19, EuroLeague
14.5 Pts, 5.2 Reb, 4.6 Ast, 1.1 Stl, 0.4 Blk
Ricky Rubio, age 19, EuroLeague
6.7 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 4.3 Ast, 1.8 Stl, 0.1 Blk
Rubio was picked 5th overall in 2009. He ranks 6th in Box +/- from the 2009 draft, and 7th in Value Over Replacement Player. He is light years better than the players picked 2nd and 6th: Hasheem Thabeet and Jonny Flynn (respectively)
Sorry Gary, but the stats are clear that Doncic deserves to be taken higher than Rubio and that Rubio wasn’t a reach at 5.
Wow…Robinson at #13? That seems to be a reach.
Well, I could see it. He isnt really all that different from a Lonnie Walker. Also, this is a pretty deep draft, and a lot of the guards/wings are pretty interchangeable
Great Point. Who knows who’s going to pan out or not… who’s going to be a star or not.
Enter draymond green.
Isaiah Thomas is a better example; NBA’s Mr. Irrelevant… Draymond went 5th in the 2nd.
The Mavs could have had Jimmy Butler and Isaiah Thomas in the same year… Too bad they only started caring about the draft last year.
I would’ve rather had Jackson. I think he’s Bosh 2.0
So this obviously means Cuban is going to go hard after free agents and push to win immediately. Even if they get cousins they are a middle of the pack team who will be picking just outside the lottery every year starting in 2020. Seems like they are headed to purgatory.
I wish so much for you to be wrong, but my money is on you being 100% correct. :-(
In the current state of the NBA with its super teams, the only chance the Mavs (or any other non-super team) stands is to convince LeBron to join… In this case we’d have to trade Wesley Matthews to New Orleans for DeMarcus Cousins in a sign-n-trade in order to make it work
This franchise has shown time and again that they don’t properly value draft picks. They have a HORRIBLE draft track record for over a decade mainly because they trade all their picks.. Now they are headed down that same road with a roster that has no business trading future assets.This team is more than a Doncic away from being good enough. Doncic is more of a high end complimentary piece than a future superstar anyways. I’m really disappointed they are attempting such a rushed rebuild..
I also don’t understand the rush to rebuild. The Rockets, GS, Spurs, etc… are so strong that what is the point of even trying to have a fast rebuild right now.
Great pick for both Atlanta & Dallas. Now Dallas can go for a beast of a 5 like DMC, instead of limited guys like JJJ & Bamba. Also now they have a franchise player for the future for when Dirk isn’t around, wow really surprised & delighted Dallas pull that one, next year if they get DMC & maybe JR, their pick to Atlanta will be out of the lottery.
My favorite part about the people talking trash about Doncic is the same reasoning you’re using against him also applies to Trae Young. Trae Young is slow and cant guard anyone. Doncic is 6″8 while Young is small. Its a joke that you dont criticize picking him top 5 (I had him going 10), but you are everywhere saying Doncic is a failure waiting to happen