Nets deal Lin to Hawks

Brooklyn acquires second-round pick, rights to Cordinier

7/13/2018, 12:17 PM
Jeremy Lin / Anthony Gruppuso/USA TODAY Sports
Jeremy Lin / Anthony Gruppuso/USA TODAY Sports

The Nets traded guard Jeremy Lin to the Atlanta Hawks in a deal involving several second-round picks and the rights to an international player who has yet to transition to the NBA, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports.

Brooklyn will acquire Portland's 2020 second-round pick and the rights to Isaia Cordinier, a 2016 second-round pick from France, in exchange for Lin, a 2025 second-round pick and the right to swap picks in 2023.

Lin only played in 37 games in two seasons with the Nets in the past two seasons, including just one last season. His Brooklyn tenure mired by injury, he averaged 14.6 points and 5.1 assists the past two seasons.

Atlanta will be Lin's seventh team since he entered the league in the 2010-11 season. The 29-year-old Lin, recognized most for his emergence with the Knicks in the 2011-12 season, has averaged 12 points, 4.5 assists and 2.9 rebounds in 406 career games.

Lin was in the final year of a three-year, $38.3 million deal and will earn $12.5 million this season.

Cordinier, whom Atlanta drafted 44th overall in 2016, is a 6-foot-4, 180-pound guard. The 21-year-old has played with the Hawks' Las Vegas Summer League team each of the past two seasons but has played internationally since he was a teenager.

With Antibes, a team that plays in the French LNB Pro A, Cordinier averaged 6.5 points and 1.9 assists in 30 games in the 2016-17 season.


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