Tag: De’Andre Hunter

De’Andre Hunter trade grades: Who won the Cavaliers-Hawks deal?

Cleveland is a title contender that just got better.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are one of the best teams in the NBA and they somehow found a way to improve by getting De’Andre Hunter.

Cleveland managed to add a legitimate rotation player without giving up significant players or any valuable first-round picks. Even though Caris LeVert was playing fairly well for the Cavaliers off the bench, Hunter is both younger and better.

It is also worth mentioning that LeVert was in the final year of his contract, while Hunter is under team control for three more seasons. He also played alongside Cleveland’s Ty Jerome while in college, where they won an NCAA national championship at Virginia.

NBA trade deadline tracker 2025: A roundup of every major deal and grades

Trade details 

Cavaliers get: De’Andre Hunter

Hawks get: Caris LeVert, Georges Niang, three second-round picks and two swaps

Cleveland Cavaliers

This was a fun move for Cleveland, who made a rare deal to improve their roster even though they have one of the best records in the NBA.

LeVert (who is a better defender) was providing genuine positive impact in their rotation so far this season, but Cleveland made an undoubtable improve in their roster with Hunter.

The wing, who was collegiate teammate with Cavaliers guard Ty Jerome and won a national championship together, is averaging his career-best 19.0 points per game while also shooting a personal-best 39.3 percent on 3-pointers.

This is not necessarily the trade that will win the Cavaliers a title, but it feels like they are at least slightly closer today than they were yesterday.

Grade: B+

Atlanta Hawks 

After selecting De’Andre Hunter with the No. 4 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, he never actually quite materialized to what one would hope to see from a top-five selection.

But this is still not a great return for Hunter, especially if the Hawks decide not to re-sign LeVert when he becomes a free agent or if they make Niang a buyout candidate.

This is mostly a trade to gain more draft picks, one could imagine, but they didn’t exactly get anything exciting in this package.

It was mostly just some second-round picks, and if that is all they could get for Hunter, maybe they would have wanted to wait until later to see if maybe he could have improved his value as the season continued.

This trade should allow their young core to get more minutes together, but it isn’t much to write about at this point.

Grade: C-

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Atlanta Hawks soaring under Quin Snyder’s vision

Sitting at 12-11 and sixth in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks’ overall record may not scream dominance, but their current five-game win streak tells a different story. Quin Snyder is coaching a roster that GM Landry Fields strategically …

Sitting at 12-11 and sixth in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks’ overall record may not scream dominance, but their current five-game win streak tells a different story. Quin Snyder is coaching a roster that GM Landry Fields strategically overhauled. His coaching style emphasizes ball movement, offensive efficiency, and defensive hustle, all of which have unlocked career-best performances from players like Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, and De’Andre Hunter. Atlanta is becoming more than just a playoff hopeful – they’re starting to look like a team that could make some noise in the postseason.

ACC players selected in the 2022 NBA draft

Who from the Irish’s conference have made the jump?

For the fourth time since 1999, a Duke player was the first overall selection of the NBA draft. That also made it the ninth consecutive year in which the ACC had one of its players taken within the first four picks. The conference had a decent night overall, but the 2022 NBA Draft particularly was amazing for Duke, like that surprises anyone. Meanwhile, Notre Dame saw one of its own selected in the first round, which had not happened in seven years.

While it would be nice to guarantee that all of these players will hit it big in the NBA, we all know that’s unlikely. Some might be future superstars, and others might not even register a single minute in the league. Time will let all of these careers play out, and it’s not really the time to speculate on who will be good or bad. This is the time for them to celebrate the next chapter of their lives.

Here are the ACC players who were drafted by NBA teams in 2022:

Celtics swap Jaylen Brown for godfather offer from Atlanta Hawks in new B/R trade proposal

The author has an alternative proposal that is so sweet it would be hard to say no — but would the Hawks even offer it?

Given that star Boston Celtics small forward Jaylen Brown happens to hail from the greater Atlanta, Georgia area, we understand why he is so often a focal point for fake trades to the Atlanta Hawks.

But we would think that by now analysts would take the Celtics organization at their word that they have no intention of trading the Marrietta native to another team any time soon. Still, the lingering effects of Boston’s uneven play makes the team — and Brown — constant fodder for trade proposal articles like a recent piece from Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes specifically created to focus on such unlikely-to-move-players.

Even the biggest fans of Brown on and off the court have to admit that there are packages the team ought to say yes to, even if it is unlikely the Celtics ever see such an offer in the short term future.

Hawks season preview: Could Trae Young lead them to win the East?

The Atlanta Hawks have the main ingredient required for breakout success in the NBA and that’s a bona fide star on the rise: Trae Young.

The Atlanta Hawks have the main ingredient required for breakout success in the NBA and that’s a bona fide star on the rise: Trae Young.

Aside from Young, the Hawks are loaded with talent and now have the added confidence of defeating the New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers in the postseason. However, do they have what it takes to get over the hump and actually make it to the NBA Finals?

Below, check out our preview for the 2021-22 Suns campaign.