Sam Amick

I honestly have not still learned about other options beyond the Wizards.

You know, you would try to canvas the league and find out who was interested.

And it's funny because it was reported that Washington was Trey's preferred destination and not trying to be glib, but it was like, okay, are we sure that list is beyond one team as far as interested parties?

But the backstory on the Atlanta side, as you know, is that

They come into this season with high hopes.

They get celebrated during the offseason for the roster work they did, the front office, with adding a lot of pieces that seemingly were going to fit well around Trae Young and some of his deficiencies.

And next thing you know, everybody's getting hurt.

Trae's getting hurt.

Porzingis is getting hurt.

They're not really able to see...

what it is that they built, but they do have this stretch where when Trey comes back from injury, they go 0-5 with him.

They were 13-9 without him.

Now, granted, there is a Porzingis factor within there as well, but it was a final straw.

It was one of those things where the Hawks

clearly looked at this and said, you know, that we got a guy making almost $50 million who's got a player option for next season.

We might have some interest in, you know, this is a subplot that we'll keep tracking, is that Porzingis is going to be a free agent this summer.

Whether it's him, they need a big, they need a rim-protecting,

uh you know big and a guy that they can give their presence and continue with their plan and so anthony davis is certainly a real option that they've been looking at but they you're not going to have trey and ad on the same roster so trey goes out you know this this era of him uh doing his ice tray thing that honestly people forget you know what he did uh at his peak and taking that team to the conference finals in 2021 and

And, you know, pissing off all the Knicks fans in the garden and like some pretty great memories.

And I think it's fair to him.