NBA Trade Grades: Hawks acquiring Jeremy Lin from Nets

The Brooklyn Nets have agreed to send point guard Jeremy Lin to the Atlanta Hawks. Here are NBA Trade Grades for both sides.

With 2018 NBA free agency dying down, the Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets decided to make moves to inject more life back into the offseason.

As first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nets have agreed to send point guard Jeremy Lin to Atlanta as the precursor to another trade with the Denver Nuggets. Brooklyn is clearing the remaining one year and $12.5 million on Lin’s contract in order to make enough room to take on Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur and a pair of draft picks from Denver.

Meanwhile, the Hawks are adding another fun point guard to a backcourt that just drafted Trae Young and Kevin Huerter. According to Woj, Atlanta will also receive a 2025 second round pick and the right to swap second round picks in 2023.

The Nets, meanwhile, get a 2020 second round pick (via the Portland Trail Blazers) and the rights to Isaia Cordinier, a 2016 second round pick who will probably never suit up for the team.

The question is, how do the Hawks and Nets fare in this exchange? In order to sort it out, here are NBA Trade Grades for both sides.