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Atlanta desperate to keep their core, willing to part with 2015 pick for cap relief?




Now, I recently read this article by K. Arnovitz on the Hawks upcoming offseason and thought to my self he's got a very solid argument there. The Hawks will be desperate to keep their core of Teague/Korver/Carroll/Millsap/Horford together. But they most likely won't have enough cap space to do so, because they don't have the bird rights of either Carroll or Millsap, since both signed as free agents only 2 seasons ago. So I was wondering if the Hawks could be another team willing to consider attaching a draft pick to any trade that would give them enough cap space to keep their core. Potential trades could involve Shelvin Mack, Thabo Sefolosha and/or Mike Scott plus Atlanta's 2015 1st. Combining all salaries, including the 1,6$ mil rookie scale salary for pick 15, ATL could save up to 11$ mil in cap space. Now obviously the Hawks would need to receive some decent cheap role players in return to stay competitive, but potentially adding players like Robert Covington and/or Hollis Thompson would still leave ATL with enough room to re-sign both of Carroll and Millsap. How likely do you guys think a trade with ATL involving their 2015 1st is, and what would the parameters of said trade have to be for you to pull the trigger?

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