{"id":533163,"date":"2026-09-21T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533163"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:49:13","slug":"hawks-and-hornets-discussing-buddy-hield-dorian-finney-smith-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hawks-and-hornets-discussing-buddy-hield-dorian-finney-smith-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks and Hornets discussing Buddy Hield-Dorian Finney-Smith trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Atlanta Hawks<\/strong> and <strong>Charlotte Hornets<\/strong> still have moves to make to reach regular-season roster compliance next month. That has not stopped the two teams from discussing a potential trade involving two veteran players currently on the roster bubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <strong>Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line<\/strong>, Atlanta and Charlotte have discussed a trade that would send <strong>Buddy Hield to the Hawks and Dorian Finney-Smith to the Hornets<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Atlanta considering Finney-Smith<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hawks could be interested in Finney-Smith with the idea of adding another <strong>defensive-minded player<\/strong> to their roster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finney-Smith&#8217;s contract for the <strong>2027\/28 season is non-guaranteed<\/strong>, meaning it would not impact Atlanta&#8217;s plans for cap space next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hield could be on his way out of Charlotte<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hield&#8217;s contract is <strong>partially guaranteed for just over $3 million<\/strong> for the 2027\/28 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is considered unlikely that Hield would make Charlotte&#8217;s regular-season roster, with the Hornets currently carrying <strong>16 fully guaranteed contracts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The potential trade is therefore one of the options available as both teams work toward regular-season roster compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source: Marc Stein and Jake Fischer\/The Stein Line<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta and Charlotte have discussed a potential swap involving two veterans currently on the roster bubble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":533161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-21-set-2026-07_47_12.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533164,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533163\/revisions\/533164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533163"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533163"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533163"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}