Atlanta Hawks: Hawks agree to trade Joe Johnson to New Jersey, Marvin Williams to Utah
The Hawks and Nets have agreed to terms on a trade that would send All-Star guard Joe Johnson to Brooklyn for multiple players with expiring contracts and a first-round draft pick, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
Update: The Hawks also have agreed to trade forward Marvin Williams to Utah for point guard Devin Harris, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement.
Trades can’t be officially consummated until the NBA moratorium ends on July 11 but the person said the Hawks have agreed on the framework of the deals with the Nets and Jazz.
The person said in exchange for Johnson, the Hawks would receive Jordan Farmar, Anthony Morrow, Johan Petro, DeShawn Stevenson and Jordan Williams from the Nets. Atlanta also would receive the lottery-protected, 2013 first-round draft pick that the Nets acquired in a trade with the Rockets.
Williams is meeting with the Nets and Mavericks today. The Nets plan to pair Johnson with Williams and re-sign free-agent center Brook Lopez to form the core of the team when it plays its first season in Brooklyn in 2012-13.
It was initially believed Atlanta’s deal with the Nets is contingent on Williams agreeing to re-sign with Brooklyn but multiple reports now say the agreement will remain in place even if Williams decides to go elsewhere.
If the deal goes through, the Hawks would be left with less talent but with more ability to make major moves in the future after shedding Johnson’s contract. Such flexibility was the stated goal of Hawks GM Danny Ferry after he was hired last week.
Johnson, 31, is owed nearly $90 million over the final four years of a contract he signed in summer 2010. It was the richest contract in the league at the time, though Derrick Rose now is owed more than Johnson since signing a contract extension.
The Hawks could be in position to clear roughly $30 million in salary-cap space after the 2012-13 season. Chris Paul and Dwight Howard are among the players eligible to become free agents next summer.
Michael Cunningham, Hawks beat
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LakeDawg
July 2nd, 2012
8:07 pm
If we keep Smooove, we need a coach or player who will biatch slap him every time he grabs a rebound, refuses to pass to the PG, and then jacks a three in a CRITICAL part of the game.
Slimjr
July 2nd, 2012
8:07 pm
Dewight’s wish denied!!!!!! Good, he’s not going to the Nets! Thanks JOE!
Come on home D12!
Slimjr
July 2nd, 2012
8:08 pm
BILL LAIMBEER!
Astro Joe
July 2nd, 2012
8:08 pm
What happened to the Nets first round pick? Some say we got one and others that we did not.
Lacsho, thanks.
Torry
July 2nd, 2012
8:09 pm
WHOOO HOOO!!!!….this is the best news I’ve ever gotten from the HAWKS…I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again Joe Johnson is a good number 2 better number 3..but he is not a number 1…good riddence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marcus
July 2nd, 2012
8:09 pm
Wow. Danny Ferry is one slick-talking son of a ….
Queen Elizabeth I better be glad she ain’t around…ol’ Danny boy would have her drawers around her ankles before the late news and sportin’ a tee-shirt with a scarlet ‘A’ by morning time …and cooking him some breakfast to boot.
pnut
July 2nd, 2012
8:09 pm
Lord help da hawks,got robbed without a gun! maby people need to start going to the game @phillips then we can pay somebody??????
Lacsho
July 2nd, 2012
8:10 pm
No more Iso, No more Iso, Hey Hey Goodbyyyyeeee!!!!
Duke The Dumpster Drose
July 2nd, 2012
8:11 pm
About time someone else started takin’ out the trash! Good job Danny boy!!
darrell starks
July 2nd, 2012
8:12 pm
Josh Smith need 2 have a GOP summit in 2013 at his house.
Who all envited.
Horford, CP3, D 12,
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now dump the players
July 2nd, 2012
8:12 pm
Great move! Johnson has to be the most overpaid player in all of sports.
Jay Dubu
July 2nd, 2012
8:13 pm
Josh is going to want JJ money when his contract expires, and so will Dwight, and CP3.
The Hawks may be able to have 2 of the 3 with Al in tow, but the remainder of the cast will be street players like myself, who will play for the TV time, gatorade, and locker rooom spread.
Tremaine
July 2nd, 2012
8:13 pm
We got the Rockets first round pick instead of the Nets which is another smart move since the Nets will probably make the playoffs next year and the Rockets won’t.
doc
July 2nd, 2012
8:13 pm
Two unmovables in the same day, just daaamn.
Lacsho
July 2nd, 2012
8:15 pm
What’s Good Big Ray, this news brought me out of blog retirement. My son went to his first football camp this past weekend. He been going to a conditioning camp for a month now. These coaches have been after him for years, so he’s playing football in the fall. I cannot wait.
Big Ray we’ve been praying for a GM like Ferry. I hope all is well with you and the family.
Tank
July 2nd, 2012
8:15 pm
Now the celtics are the ones holding on to their core, although they did win a title.
Lacsho
July 2nd, 2012
8:15 pm
Exactly Doc!!!
Chuck UGA
July 2nd, 2012
8:16 pm
Wow, this is good stuff. I may start going to Hawks games again. Ferry is not insane like other Hawks GM’s were by continuing to do the same darn thing while expecting different results. Now we’ll see if the coach can really coach!
Mr. G
July 2nd, 2012
8:16 pm
Najeh, whos going to coach those guys?
Sautee
July 2nd, 2012
8:16 pm
Lemme ask again:
Who knows how long a team must wait (under the new CBA) before re-trading a player acquired by trade?
Lacsho
July 2nd, 2012
8:18 pm
“Now we’ll see if the coach can really coach!”
Right on Chuckster!!!
darrell starks
July 2nd, 2012
8:19 pm
D wade, Lebron, Chris
Had there GOP SUMMIT IN 2010
Now
Josh, Horford, CP3, D 12
GOP SUMMIT 2013
GO HAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
doc
July 2nd, 2012
8:19 pm
Lacsho many old timers reporting in bro, not just you, big ray, honest, myk….
Agreed on AJ line that is the classic AJ we love like a brother. Heh heh
ShoNuff
July 2nd, 2012
8:19 pm
Well…not happy with the pieces we got from this deal, but it is a step towards rebuilding. The Rockets pick is lottery-protected, so we won’t get that pick since they won’t make the playoffs
UGAJD
July 2nd, 2012
8:19 pm
A quote from ESPN: “…Ferry will have shed their two most onerous contracts — Johnson and Williams — in his first week-plus on the job.” Helluva good first week, Danny-boy!
Jae Evolution
July 2nd, 2012
8:20 pm
Just saw this on another message board, pretty funny
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22870221.jpg
terrell
July 2nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Can we new announcers as well? Sorry Nique.
gcs
July 2nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Two down, one to go. Josh for Gasol. Don’t be greedy, Lakers.
Big Ray
July 2nd, 2012
8:23 pm
Sautee ,
Can’t remember. Wish another original would speak up. Maybe Northcyde knows, but clearly he’s in mourning…
Just Joe
July 2nd, 2012
8:24 pm
Sautee…trades are not official until the 11th. Hawks are free to “flip” any players acquired by trade until then.
Marcus
July 2nd, 2012
8:25 pm
Let me see if my math is right:
We had 6 players under contract: Al, JJ, Marvin, Teague, Zaza, and Smoove
We traded 2 (JJ, and Marvin), we get back 6 – (5 players from NJ and 1 player from Utah)
Now, once this deal is finalized we ill have 10 players under contract, a QO out to Ivan (pending his acceptance) that leaves us with 2 spots to fill the min. roster count of 13 players and what appears to be millions of dollars of potential cap space (via expiring contracts) for Summer 2013.
man …. ol’ Danny could talk Ghandi into eating at a rib shack.
Big Ray
July 2nd, 2012
8:25 pm
Lacsho ,
Doing well, doing well.
LD’s head has GOT to be spinning right about now. Fuh REAL
hawksfancents95
July 2nd, 2012
8:25 pm
is it devin harris for marvin straight up?
why the heck would utah take on that salary and years of marvin, and for no pick or nothing?
does GM DF got some blackmail on some of these franchises or what? how do you get rid of the two worst salaries on our team in ONE day! if Sund is still in the front office i really wana know what is going through his head, DF just got rid of everything Sund did in 4 years in about a week lmfao.
PD
July 2nd, 2012
8:26 pm
Great trade……..Lot’s of wiggle room and we keep some good players.
EmirS.
July 2nd, 2012
8:26 pm
Vettledi
July 2nd, 2012
6:19 pm
“‘If Ferry is able to find someone ABLE to make a trade with Marvin I take the first flight from Paris to Atlanta and give him a BJ”
You a man of your word?
“I’m here regardless of who is on the team.
Can’t the rest of you say the same?” – northcyde
All day.
My 2 cents:
I’m very excited for the future of this organization. It may be true we are not championship level material. Maybe not even 2nd round material. But of the possibilities that have risen with these trades…can’t help but raise the eyebrows of the upcoming free agents. I think it should be clear what Danny Ferry is doing. He’s following the Celtic and Heat blueprint. Pierce/Allen/Garnett ….James/Wade/Bosh….Smith/Howard/Paul??
I hope CP3 realizes he has no chance of winning a title with the Clippers. I’ve not been fond of the Clippers last year and still not. They are still far from being legit title contenders. I;m not saying the Hawks are any closer. But if we manage to get Howard with Smith….then we are automatically in the top 3. That’s considering that CP3 joins them.
Sadly, I will not get my hopes up high. I’ve learned my lesson. It will be brewing in the back of my mind. But again these kind of scenarios are hard to pull off.
In a closing statement….am I the only one that can’t help but think Ferry chose the Nets just to give them Joe to screw them over from signing Howard? With Wallace, JJ, AND Williams…they are cap strapped to sign Howard in any way, shape, or form. It’s a long shot….but don’t the Hawks have the assets now to get Howard? We can give them Horford, expiring contracts, and a first round pick? Isn’t that what the magic have been wanting? You get an All-Star in Horford. You get expiring contracts that will give them cap space to sign their own free agents and they still get a first round pick to rebuild fast.
random
July 2nd, 2012
8:29 pm
All i have to say if we sign dwight howard, look out for the secret hawk fans aka bandwagoners
Don!
July 2nd, 2012
8:29 pm
Wow. Just wow. I love Joe, but that contract is a franchise killer. Marvin needs a change of scenery, and a team that will match his skill set with its tempo.
I think we just went from a 4-seed to an 8-seed next season, but I think we have the potential to be better down the road today than we were yesterday. The key here is building around a real superstar, and how we get one. Is the plan to draft one in ‘13 or ‘14, or to build the framework and poach one from another team in the same period?
Just for getting us out of salary cap purgatory, Danny might have a shot at NBA Exec of the Year — but if he gets us a quality team that’s one player away … and then finds a way to land that one player … well, that would be almost as good as getting rid of this ownership group.
Later,
Don!
The Real cp
July 2nd, 2012
8:29 pm
lol@terrell. Yea no more Nique. What sf’s are available? I know Beasley is a free agent but I dont know what other sf’s are out there.
Just Joe
July 2nd, 2012
8:29 pm
Sautee…the answer any other time, is two months. Have to wait two months before trading that player away.
marco
July 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Let go hawks, know it time get a big. Why not try lakers with Al and Teague for Bynum and a second round pick. So if D. Howard dont sign long term somewhere u have bynum for sign and trade deal. Find a small forward i the free agent market. Know u have josh,dwight,and cap space to go after chris paul
Only takes 5
July 2nd, 2012
8:30 pm
Way to go Danny, Super start. Traded right players. Kept Josh Smith, Al Horford, Jeff Teague. Move Horford to 4. We have Smith at 3. Teague at 1. We and other teams need a dominant center. You drafted Jenkins at 2. With the lottery pick next year, get the best dang center possible. Draft well, sign correct free agents, and Hawks have our five players. Sign Smith to a fair but not anchor contract. Keep it up Danny. Great start.
Lacsho
July 2nd, 2012
8:33 pm
Emir Ferry is good friends with the Nets GM
Ken Strickland
July 2nd, 2012
8:34 pm
One thing is certain, we can forget about any JSmith and MWilliams for Gasol trade. With the successful trade of JJohnson and MWilliams, some of our more delusional fans have become even more delusional by day dreaming about us automatically signing DHoward and CP3.
With Marvin and JJ gone, we’ll have to sign a starting SF.
marco
July 2nd, 2012
8:35 pm
Hawks need to go after micheal beasley to play the 3 and may marcus camby to strengthen the bench. We also could bring over Sey the guy from 2010 draft.
Zing
July 2nd, 2012
8:36 pm
I agree Tremaine — Danny Ferry gets GM of the Year for somehow, someway, figuring out a way to dispose of JJ without amnesty! Holy cow!
Ridonkulous
July 2nd, 2012
8:36 pm
This is marvelous news. Finally, a GM in this town who knows when something needs fixing. (I’m looking at you Frank Wren).
Joe and Marvin gone in one night.
Good times.
Sautee
July 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
Just Joe,
Thanks. My guess is that some of the guards go in a subsequent trade before training camp.
Just Joe
July 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
Looks like Josh Smith is a fan of Danny Ferry. “He’s changed the whole perception of the organization.”.
Rod from College Park
July 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
Northcyde is on suicide watch. His two favorite players are gone. Hope with don’t have to hear anymore fantasy league stats from him.
Jay Dubu
July 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
With this kind of action, there will be no more Collins on the roster. The Hawks need players that can score, and play D.