Trade Radar · open rumor · Wednesday, September 23 · 2 d ago

Wizards Notes: Young, Dawkins, Davis, Outlook

Reported by Josh RobbinsRead the original report ↗

Management changes in Atlanta caused Trae Young to want to move on after spending more than seven years with the organization, relays Josh Robbins of The Athletic. Appearing this week on Michael Porter Jr.’s podcast (YouTube link), Young said he didn’t feel the same type of support from the front office after Onsi Saleh took […]

Confidence

49%

Reporter starting tier	50	2 calls on the ledger, tier used until 5
Corroboration	+0	nobody else has reported this yet
Age	−1	2 days old · a rumor loses 1.2 points a day, up to 25

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Who it involves

Trae Young

Wizards · G · 17.9 pts · 2.0 reb · 8.0 ast

Cap hit 2026-27: $49.49M · next season $50.48M

Michael Porter Jr.

Nets · F · 24.2 pts · 7.1 reb · 3.0 ast

Cap hit 2026-27: $40.81M · expiring

Washington Wizards

$191.5M · over the cap · 14 contracts · cap sheet

What would have to happen

Build it in the Trade Machine →

Michael Porter Jr. → Wizards

Send out at least $32.44M

The Wizards are over the cap, so to take on $40.81M they need to send out $32.44M or more under the 125% + $250k rule.

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