{"id":533603,"date":"2026-09-22T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=533603"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:25:47","slug":"hawks-to-acquire-dorian-finney-smith-from-hornets-in-three-player-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hawks-to-acquire-dorian-finney-smith-from-hornets-in-three-player-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks To Acquire Dorian Finney-Smith from Hornets in Three-Player Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Atlanta Hawks are sending Buddy Hield, Ryan Nembhard and cash considerations to the Charlotte Hornets for Dorian Finney-Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news was reported by Shams Charania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move helps Atlanta address a roster crunch, as the Hawks had 16 players on standard NBA contracts. Finney-Smith is owed roughly $13.7 million for the upcoming season, while the remaining years of his contract are non-guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the Hornets acquire Hield, who is under contract for $9.5 million, and a young point guard who averaged 6.6 points and 5.3 assists per game as a rookie for the Mavs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Atlanta Hawks are trading Buddy Hield, Ryan Nembhard and cash to the Charlotte Hornets for Dorian Finney-Smith, sources tell ESPN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bf3zzlZgVK\">pic.twitter.com\/bf3zzlZgVK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2102486115089301743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move helps Atlanta address a roster crunch, as the Hawks had 16 players on standard NBA contracts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":533605,"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":[92],"tags":[1443],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-533603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-atlanta-hawks","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/dorian-finney-smith.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533603","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533607,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533603\/revisions\/533607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533603"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=533603"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=533603"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=533603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}