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Hawks send Hield and Nembhard to Hornets for Finney-Smith

Tue, Sep 22Wednesday, September 23
By the Hoops Nightly Desk · 4 h ago

There were no games on the schedule for Wednesday, September 23. Atlanta and Charlotte executed a three-team-sized swap of veterans, Toronto has a new deal in place for Kawhi Leonard, and camp rosters kept filling out across the league. Houston got a clean bill of health on Fred VanVleet.

The injury wire

Houston guard Fred VanVleet has been cleared. He had been listed as Day-To-Day.

Moves and reports

Atlanta and Charlotte made a trade: the Hawks get Dorian Finney-Smith ($13.3M cap hit), the Hornets get Buddy Hield ($9.7M) and Ryan Nembhard ($2.2M). Charlotte also signed Tre Carroll and waived DJ Armstrong. Indiana brought back James Johnson on an Exhibit 9 deal, and Miami claimed Bez Mbeng off waivers ($2.2M). Denver signed Boopie Miller to an Exhibit 10 deal and lost Reese Dixon-Waters and Keonte Jones. Camp-deal additions also landed in Chicago (Houston Mallette, Peter Suder), Detroit (Jordan Riley), Phoenix (John Camden, Corey Camper, Samuel Hoiberg), Portland (Mark Armstrong, Samson Johnson, Keylan Boone) and San Antonio (Miles Barnstable). New Orleans lost Solomon Washington and Golden State lost Obi Agbim. Shams Charania reported the Hawks-Hornets trade at 90% confidence. Marc Stein put the Miller-Nuggets deal at 80%. Anthony Chiang's report on the Mbeng claim and Tony East's report on Johnson's return to Indiana were both at 50%. Charania also reported the Raptors and Kawhi Leonard have agreed to a two-year extension, with no confidence rating given. Hoopsrumors reports on the Raptors' offseason, the Blazers' camp additions, the Hornets' Carroll signing and Armstrong waiver, and a possible Nembhard waiver in Charlotte carried no confidence rating, as did Tony Garcia's report on camp additions in Detroit, Chicago and San Antonio.

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No games in this window. The 2026-27 regular season tips off October 20; preseason starts October 3.

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Window: 7:00 ET the day before to 7:00 ET on Wed, Sep 23. Scores, injuries and rosters from official feeds; reports from named insiders' public posts and HoopsRumors, with the desk's confidence score. Written 4 h ago.