On February 10 the NBA transfer market closes. Teams make calls, weigh their options and the media is filled with rumors and viable transfer options. Meanwhile, the market moves: The Hawks, a team in the midst of a massive crisis, has sent Cam Reddish to the Knicks. The operation, advanced by Adrian Wojnarowski, includes a road from New York to Solomon Hill and a second round (from 2025). In return, Hawks take Kevin Knox and protected first round of 2022 than the Knicks corresponding to Charlotte Hornets.
The movement is surprising in how fast it has taken place. It was clear that Atlanta was looking for an outlet for Reddish, a young guard (22 years old) who was on the market because the Georgia franchise did not see anything clear to offer him a contract extension next summer. Reddish was No. 10 in the 2019 draft, the same one in which the Hawks took No. 4 to De’Andre Hunter. Reddish is the Mavs pick that the Hawks had taken as a bonus in the Luka Doncic-Trae Young trade.
This season, Reddish has shown progress as a scorer, especially as a shooter. On defense he has the potential to be important, although he has gaps in collective fundamentals and shines even more, only as a defender in one on one. For the Knicks he is a good bet, a player who can be given an important role and for which they have not given too much in return. A first protégé and Kevin Knox, a disaster for the franchise since he was voted No. 9 in 2018. It’s another team in trouble. One that last season set course on the fly with the arrival of Derrick Rose. Now he wants to repeat, this time with a player with a great future … and who was beginning to need a change of scenery. The Hawks plan to make a major hit in the winter market and to This adds to their arsenal the first round they receive this operation.
The trade has an edge, one that enters the realm of rumors but something that will inevitably be talked about: the Knicks have (also, in a great moment of form) the number 3 of 2019, RJ Barrett. And now they get the 10, Cam Reddish. Reddish and Barrett played together in a version ultra media of Duke which was also Zion Williamson, No. 1 of the first draft in which three teammates were chosen in the top 10 of the same draft. Zion, who still does not play this season and whose relationship with the Pelicans is in a very delicate moment, has always been linked to those Knicks who dreamed of him in that draft in which they finished with number 3. So some now they want to see in this movement a bridge to the meeting of that big three de Duke. For dreaming that there is no …
