Dejounte Murray

Murray was traded Wednesday from the Spurs to the Hawks in exchange for Danilo Gallinari, three first-round picks and a draft swap, Shams Charania of The ...

- Spurs' Dejounte Murray: Out Saturday Pairing him next to Trae Young makes much more sense defensively than offensively, but Murray will probably get plenty of chances to run the second unit. As a 25-year-old last season, Murray made the All-Star team behind 21.1 points, 9.2 assists, 8.3 rebounds and a league-leading 2.0 steals in 34.8 minutes.

The San Antonio Spurs are trading All-Star point guard Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks for Danilo Gallinari and three first-round picks, ESPN's Adrian ...

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The San Antonio Spurs are trading Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks for Danilo Gallinari, three first-round draft picks and a draft swap, sources told ...

Emoni Bates commits to Eastern Michigan after leaving Memphis In Atlanta last season, Gallinari played in 66 games with 18 starts, averaging 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists. Emoni Bates commits to Eastern Michigan after leaving Memphis

It's happened: A much discussed deal between the San Antonio Spurs and the Atlanta Hawks that sends Dejounte Murray — a terrific point guard coming off his ...

I would have hoped the Spurs would get more for a player of Murray’s caliber. Plus, the Hawks didn’t even have to trade Collins in this one! Now, that star-studded backcourt will be surrounded by John Collins, Bogdan Bogdanovic, De’Andre Hunter and Clint Capela. A formidable rotation to say the least.

San Antonio reportedly lands multiple future Draft assets in exchange for the All-Star guard.

Gallinari, meanwhile, averaged 11.7 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists last season for the Hawks, which finished 43-39. The 29th pick of the 2016 NBA Draft, Murray, 25, earned his first All-Star nod in 2021-22, averaging a career-high 21.1 points to go with 9.2 assists, 8.3 rebounds and 2.0 steals. • 2025 first-round pick

The Atlanta Hawks are going all-in for push up the Eastern Conference with a bold trade for an established backcourt partner next to Trae Young.

The Milwaukee Bucks won a championship in 2021, and have the best player in the world in Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Miami Heat came within a Jimmy Butler three-pointer of going to the NBA Finals this year. The Spurs’ rebuild added three first round draft picks earlier this month with Jeremy Sochan, Malachi Branham, and Blake Wesley. Wesley has the tools to eventually become what Murray grew into if everything hits right — but of course that’s a big if. Young hasn’t been a great off-ball player to this point in his career, but he certainly has the quickness and shooting gravity to become that. This is truly a massive haul of picks that will shape San Antonio’s future whether they use them on players or package them in future trades. The Hawks better hope he can regularly be in the conversation for that moving forward to justify the cost. San Antonio will be praying to the lottery gods for similar luck next summer. At the same time, you have to respect Atlanta for going all-in. Will he be able to effectively space the floor when Young has the ball? The Boston Celtics coming off an NBA Finals run and have a great collection of young talent that just starting to enter its prime. The Hawks are making an all-in push to get back to where they were two seasons ago — the Eastern Conference Finals — before barely grabbing the No. 8 seed in the East this past year. The Spurs are taking a big risk by trading their best player at 25 years old. The Spurs, meanwhile, are finally fully committing to a rebuild in a way they didn’t do when they initially traded Kawhi Leonard. The Spurs haven’t won a playoff series since trading Leonard, but they also haven’t picked higher than No. 9 in the draft, either.

In a move that no one could have seen coming weeks ago, the Spurs have agreed to trade Dejounte Murray to the Hawks in exchange for Danilo Gallinari, ...

While it’s fair to wonder why it took the franchise this long to commit to a rebuilding style, at least now it’s clear what the future has in store. They could patiently add young players through the draft until they get one or two All-NBA-caliber prospects, or they could make a big move for a true franchise star in the future by using all the assets they have accrued. Perhaps that’s what actually motivated the trade, as the front office simply figured that it made no sense to go forward with Murray as the team’s best player, but it sets San Antonio back nonetheless. Four years ago, Murray was coming off his first season as a rotation player, in which he had shown enough promise to take over the starting spot from Tony Parker. Had the Spurs moved Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge for picks and young players then, they would have spent the past years trying to build around Murray with players his age. The Spurs failed to make the playoffs last season, despite Murray’s leap, and would have likely been in the race for the play-in again, at best, in 2022/23. The All-Star point guard is entering the second to last year of his very team-friendly contract, so this was arguably the last and certainly the best chance San Antonio had to get a good haul back for him, since it would have been harder to retain leverage as Murray’s free agency got closer. It simply never felt like the Spurs were going to be motivated to move Murray unless they could get a king’s ransom back, which the good-but-not-contending Hawks would have understandably been hesitant to provide.

The Hawks have one of the best backcourts in the league; the Spurs have a better chance at Victor Wembanyama.

The 2023 pick via the Hornets is likely going to be in the middle of the first round, and the 2025 pick via the Hawks figures to be toward the back half of the first round as well. Of course, the Spurs know all of this, just as they know that by keeping Murray (and White) they would be left spinning their wheels in mediocrity. The 2026 pick swap and 2027 first via the Hawks are too far off in the future to discuss with any certainty, but there's a good chance neither are particularly meaningful. If the Spurs' tank succeeds, and they wind up with the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, then this could go down as a league-altering trade. You could have the worst record in the league by 10 games and still easily wind up picking No. 3. That brings up perhaps the most interesting aspect of the trade, which is that it would seem to necessitate Young playing off the ball more than he ever has in his career. Wembanyama, a 7-foot-2, 18-year-old Frenchman, is one of the most intriguing prospects to come across the world stage maybe ever. Murray, who led the league in steals last season, is one of the best perimeter defenders around thanks in large part to his incredible 6-foot-10 wingspan. His ridiculous combination of size, length and coordination make him a destructive defensive force who can challenge every shot at the rim and more than hold his own on the perimeter. Now, though, we can view it as the first step in a teardown. At that point it was clear that whatever ended up happening over the final few months of last season, the Hawks were in for a transformational summer. Murray, a late first-round pick back in 2016, is coming off the best season of his career, in which he led the league in steals and made the All-Star Game for the first time.

The first big trade of the NBA offseason is in the books, and Murray is heading to the Eastern Conference.

It appears that Gallinari's salary, now set at $21.450, is fully guaranteed for the 2022-23 season, unless more details emerge to the contrary. The Knicks were also rumored to make a push for Murray to pair with their rumored free-agent acquisition, Jalen Brunson. The trade signals the culmination of recent rumors that San Antonio was surprisingly planning to move on from the All-Star. Now, Murray heads to Atlanta to pair with another All-Star guard in Trae Young.

The Hawks will send Danilo Gallinari to San Antonio as part of a deal that will pair Dejounte Murray and Trae Young in an all-star backcourt.

Murray had teased the possibility of a trade on social media in recent days, and both players appear excited about their new partnership. For San Antonio, parting with Murray, who was taken with the 29th pick in the 2016 draft, couldn’t have been an easy decision. San Antonio ranked 30th in the league in clutch offense with Murray at the helm, often struggling to generate good opportunities due to his poor outside shooting and his limited supporting cast. Gallinari, 33, averaged 11.7 points and 4.7 rebounds off the bench last season and is on a $21.5 million expiring contract that is partially guaranteed. Young will continue to serve as the lead option late in games, freeing Murray to be an off-the-dribble threat when defenses load up on Atlanta’s closer. Murray’s arrival will give Young, one of the NBA’s top playmakers, a reliable secondary ballhandler and creator on offense.

The Atlanta Hawks reportedly are landing Dejounte Murray from the San Antonio Spurs for Danilo Gallinari, three future first-round picks and a future pick ...

The pick swap will be in 2026. For San Antonio, the picture is clear: The team is in full rebuilding mode. Devin Vassell, the Spurs’ lottery pick in 2020, also made significant strides on both ends last season, so the youth-led movement in the organization has a structure with future first-rounders to follow.

On Wednesday, reports indicated that the first major move of the offseason had been undertaken and it involved the Atlanta Hawks and the San Antonio Spurs.

Murray averaged a career-high 21.1 points, 9.2 assists, 8.3 rebounds and 2.0 steals last season, earning All-Star honors for the first time in his career. The Hawks' backcourt next season will be a problem for opposing defenses to handle. The same could be said for the pick coming from the Hornets. Essentially, the Spurs received three picks that project to be in the late teens to mid-20s and a veteran expiring contract for a 25-year-old All-Star. The Hawks are sending a 2023 first-round pick via Charlotte, and their own 2025 and 2027 first-round picks to the Spurs in the deal. The Spurs sent their All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to the Eastern Conference in exchange for the Hawks sending back Danilo Gallinari and three first-round picks, and a pick swap in 2026.

Both teams needed to escape the dreaded middle of the NBA. Dejounte Murray was their ticket to do so – in opposite directions.

The trick is navigating the rest of the roster dance in the wake of this trade. That said, despite the divergent strategic choices represented by this trade, there was one common theme: Nobody in the NBA wants to be in the middle for long. Murray was one of the few players who could fill this role on a reasonable salary while also offering enough shot-creation upside to allow the Hawks to actually survive in Young’s absence. They’ll have to hope he likes the pairing with Young well enough to stick around past 2024, even though he’s almost certain to have the rock quite a bit less than he did in San Antonio. More seriously, they could easily position themselves to sign three starter-caliber players from a strong free-agent class, put those players around their 2023 lottery pick and the three firsts from this year and be on their way back up the standings. Of course, focusing on all that ignores the elephant in the room. Of the picks the Spurs received from Atlanta in the Murray trade, three come with the juicy word “unprotected” attached: firsts from Atlanta in 2025 and 2027 and a pick swap in 2026. Sure, they could use some of it on stopgaps to keep things quasi-respectable — signing Tyus Jones so these kids can learn while playing with a real point guard, for instance — or on “delayed sign-and-trades” for a veteran or two they can then pawn off for a draft pick at midseason. San Antonio also just used the 20th and 25th selections in last week’s draft, in addition to its own pick at No. 9, as a result of trading White and Young. So, why, exactly, would the San Antonio Spurs agree to trade Dejounte Murray to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday in exchange for a lot of draft picks, but essentially no tangible basketball help for the immediate future? They have a lightly protected 2025 first-rounder from Chicago still headed their way from last summer’s DeRozan sign-and-trade deal and a 2028 pick swap with Boston that is top-one protected from the White trade. The Spurs made a mistake in not moving on from LaMarcus Aldridge at the same time, but the biggest issue was that they found players like White, Murray and Keldon Johnson with late draft picks and added solid late-lottery talent like Devin Vassell and Jakob Poeltl around them.