Hawks Latest | Daily Atlanta Hawks Podcast
Oct 5, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
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Brian MooteHost
He had a $9.8 million, um, restricted free agent tender that he had to sign, and he signed for the 200 million for five years.
And when you kind of break into it, look, I, I was a fan of the idea of Jalen Duren because I feel like at 21 years old, 6'10", athletic monster in the middle, um, with the young core that we have, that, that has a l- a really high ceiling.
I didn't like the idea of getting rid of a trade package with Dyson Daniels involved in it.
Um, we'll get to Onyeka here in a little bit 'cause he's got, we've got a decision to make on him by October 19th.
Um, but when you look at the money, he's gonna be getting about 40 million a season, uh, after next year.
9.8 next year, and then it's gonna start averaging out to about 40 million a season, and that's a lot of money to lock up with a guy who ...
I mean, 2010's great, or 20 and 10's great, but can we not also find that value in the draft as well, right? We've got a lot of draft assets coming our way, and some of the, the criticisms, um, of it are that we could spend that money.
We have a ton of cap flexibility to save that money on an actual difference maker, right? And look for value in when it comes to bigs.
We've got serviceable bigs that we can use in different lineups, different, um, you know, depending on if we're going offensive-minded, defensive-minded.
And people have bad stretches, but bad in the playoffs is not [laughs] what you want.
You really wanna see the other way around, where you maybe have a questionable season.
It's kind of a reverse, um, where Kuminga kinda had a, he had a great playoff run or stretch.
But again, you know, walking away from money on the table at the time can, you know, can bite you.
He had a $9.8 million, um, restricted free agent tender that he had to sign, and he signed for the 200 million for five years.
And when you kind of break into it, look, I, I was a fan of the idea of Jalen Duren because I feel like at 21 years old, 6'10", athletic monster in the middle, um, with the young core that we have, that, that has a l- a really high ceiling.
I didn't like the idea of getting rid of a trade package with Dyson Daniels involved in it.
Um, we'll get to Onyeka here in a little bit 'cause he's got, we've got a decision to make on him by October 19th.
Um, but when you look at the money, he's gonna be getting about 40 million a season, uh, after next year.
9.8 next year, and then it's gonna start averaging out to about 40 million a season, and that's a lot of money to lock up with a guy who ...
I mean, 2010's great, or 20 and 10's great, but can we not also find that value in the draft as well, right? We've got a lot of draft assets coming our way, and some of the, the criticisms, um, of it are that we could spend that money.
We have a ton of cap flexibility to save that money on an actual difference maker, right? And look for value in when it comes to bigs.
We've got serviceable bigs that we can use in different lineups, different, um, you know, depending on if we're going offensive-minded, defensive-minded.
And people have bad stretches, but bad in the playoffs is not [laughs] what you want.
You really wanna see the other way around, where you maybe have a questionable season.
It's kind of a reverse, um, where Kuminga kinda had a, he had a great playoff run or stretch.
But again, you know, walking away from money on the table at the time can, you know, can bite you.
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