Sources: Hawks land Alexander-Walker, Kennard

The Atlanta Hawks volition get Nickeil Alexander-Walker from the Minnesota Timberwolves via a sign-and-trade for 4 years and $62 million, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania connected Monday.

As portion of the deal, Atlanta is sending a 2027 second-round prime via Cleveland and currency to Minnesota, sources said.

In addition, the Hawks reached a one-year, $11 cardinal woody with escaped cause sharpshooter Luke Kennard, sources told Charania. Kennard, 29, has been 1 of the champion shooters successful the NBA since coming into the league successful 2017-18. He has doubly led the NBA successful 3-point percentage, and past play successful Memphis, helium changeable 43.3% from region connected 4 attempts per game.

Hawks prima Trae Young reached retired to Kennard and Alexander-Walker connected Monday evening to assistance enlistee them to the franchise, sources told Charania.

Alexander-Walker's caller contract, which includes a subordinate enactment and commercialized kicker, comes aft a vocation play for him successful Minnesota, wherever helium recorded highs successful full points, rebounds, assists and 3-pointers.

The Timberwolves acquired Alexander-Walker successful the Mike Conley commercialized with the Utah Jazz successful 2023, and helium blossomed into a premier relation subordinate implicit the adjacent 3 seasons successful Minnesota.

At 6-foot-5 with a agelong wingspan, Alexander-Walker is 1 of the champion perimeter defenders successful the league and changeable 38.6% from 3 connected 4.3 attempts per crippled implicit his past 2 seasons. He besides has developed arsenic a shot handler; helium brought the shot up the tribunal for 14.5 possessions per crippled past season, the highest mean of his career, according to GeniusIQ.

Alexander-Walker, who turns 27 successful September, was drafted with the No. 17 prime successful 2019 and spent parts of 4 years with the New Orleans Pelicans and Jazz earlier landing successful Minnesota.

During this year's playoffs, Alexander-Walker became the archetypal subordinate with aggregate 20-point games disconnected the seat successful a postseason successful Timberwolves history.

He's besides 1 of lone 5 players who appeared successful each 82 games successful each of the past 2 seasons.

ESPN Research contributed to this report.