Hawks Roster, Salaries, Cap Space, Available Draft Picks and More

The Hawks have a lot of questions surrounding what will happen with the roster this offseason in the lead-up to the 2024-25 season. Coming off a 36-46 campaign where they failed to make the playoffs, they’ll need to explore all avenues for improving and reshaping the team.

As we enter into a new CBA era where second aprons are a thing, it’s important to understand financially where the team is at all times.

So, we here at Peachtree Hoops would like to introduce the readers to SalarySwish — a host for salary data, contract data, and other minutiae of the business side of the NBA — who will be providing us with the latest and most accurate data on the Hawks’ financial and draft pick situations.

Atlanta Hawks Roster, Salaries, Draft Picks, Cap Space and More

Here is a table with salary information by way of SalarySwish:

Additional Details

Per SalarySwish, the team is already projected to be over the salary cap in 2024-25. Now, this is typical in a flex cap league, of course, and the lines to truly watch as it relates to roster flexibility are the tax, first apron, and second apron. In short, at each of those levels certain mechanisms to make player transactions are no longer available.

Luxury Tax

In theory, should the Hawks re-sign both Saddiq Bey and Vit Krejci and not shed salary elsewhere, the team would in all likelihood enter the luxury tax. In practice? Well, the team has a long history of managing to secure luxury tax redistribution money from the tax territory teams around the league by getting under the tax line. So, I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Useable Exceptions

The Hawks have both the bi-annual exceptions (which, as its name states, can be used every other season) as well as the mid-level exception (which can be used each offseason). There are different versions for tax versus non-tax teams, but as of right now the Hawks can use the full mid-level exception to sign a free agent.

Trade Exceptions

A trade exception is not so much a specific mechanism all teams can use, but rather the result of a previous trade (within the last calendar year). This allows teams to execute a ‘non-simultaneous’ trade by absorbing a player into the salary difference created by a prior trade.

For the Hawks, they have three such trade exceptions on the books, the largest of which stems from the John Collins trade last offseason to the Utah Jazz. The Hawks will have until July 7 to use it — or a piece of it — before it expires.

Draft Picks

Outgoing

As a result of the Dejounte Murray and Saddiq Bey trades, the Hawks are down quite a few of their future draft picks. The Hawks, of course, own the top pick in the 2024 NBA Draft by virtue of winning the draft lottery, but their second-round pick now resides with the Houston Rockets via the Golden State Warriors as a result of the Bey deal.

Two future picks and a pick swap were sent to San Antonio in the deal for Murray:

• 2025 unprotected first-round pick
• 2026 pick swap rights
• 2027 unprotected first-round pick

And the picks owed from the Bey trade:

• 2024 own second-round pick
• 2025 second-round pick (top-40 protected)
• 2026 own second-round pick
• 2027 own second-round pick
• 2029 own second-round pick

Acquiring the rights to Mouhamed Gueye on draft night 2023 also required sending out Atlanta’s 2028 second-round pick to the Boston Celtics.

Incoming

The Hawks do have some incoming picks, however:

• 2025 first-round pick from the Sacramento Kings due to the Kevin Huerter trade (top-12 protection, top 10 protection in 2026, two second-round picks otherwise).
• 2025 second-round pick (from Minnesota via Houston in the Usman Garuba/TyTy Washington Jr. trade)
• 2026 second-round pick (from Memphis via Utah in the John Collins trade)
• 2028 second-round pick (from Houston in the Usman Garuba/TyTy Washington Jr. trade)

This might become an important post to reference — especially as these situations update over the offseason — so please save and share as you wish, and feel free to discuss in the comments below.