{"id":438597,"date":"2023-06-26T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438597"},"modified":"2023-06-26T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:35:34","slug":"atlanta-trade-john-collins-to-jazz-for-rudy-gay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/atlanta-trade-john-collins-to-jazz-for-rudy-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta trade John Collins to Jazz for Rudy Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Hawks are sending forward John Collins to the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/utah-jazz\/\">Utah Jazz<\/a> in a trade that will secure the team exceptional financial flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta is acquiring forward Rudy Gay, a future 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-round pick for John, who is owed 78 million dollars in the next 3 years. The exchange creates more than 25 million dollars in trade exceptions for Atlanta \u2013 the largest in the league. Hawks has one season to use the exception to take on a basketballer\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">John Collins has been traded to the Utah Jazz, sources confirm to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffSchultzATL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JeffSchultzATL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tjonesonthenba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Tjonesonthenba<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks will receive Rudy Gay and a second-round pick in return. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YupBa0KH6A\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/YupBa0KH6A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yMUFOEXZ1L\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/yMUFOEXZ1L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1673392624085106688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The swap cannot be official until July 6<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>With Collins, Utah will have a versatile attacker to be on the court front line along with Lauri Markkanen and Walker Kessler. The franchise was an offensive revelation under 1<sup>st<\/sup>-year head coach Will Hardy, and John&#8217;s acquisition could revive the chances of the Jazz to play in the Western Conference postseason next campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Hawks are sending forward John Collins to the Utah Jazz in a trade that will secure the team exceptional financial flexibility. Atlanta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438598,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17176,20127,17837,17198],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17947,20129,20128,18125,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The deal will open huge exception.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438597"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438597"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}