Georges Niang has been shedding gentle on the method that noticed him traded on the latest deadline.
The Cleveland Cavaliers made a deadline commerce to accumulate De’Andre Hunter, a transfer praised by NBA legend Kevin Garnett.
Within the different route, Caris LeVert and Georges Niang had been traded away to the Atlanta Hawks.
Niang got here agonizingly near profitable a dramatic time beyond regulation recreation in opposition to the Knicks in his first week on the Hawks, together with his final second shot not fairly happening.
Georges Niang has been discussing the commerce, talking through YouTube to elucidate the method and the way he came upon.
Niang revealed he realized in regards to the commerce in a cellphone name, minutes after Shams Charania had damaged the information through X.
Together with Caris LeVert, the pair made their solution to the Hawks, and he has mirrored on the stringent medical assessments he underwent, which he totally understands contemplating the Mark Williams state of affairs.
Williams was traded to the LA Lakers from the Charlotte Hornets, and this has now been reversed after issues throughout his medical checks.
Niang defined that his medicals with the Hawks took ‘hours’, and had been a part of a ‘whirlwind’ adjustment to his new franchise.
He defined: “By the best way they’re checking all the pieces, we noticed the Mark Williams [situation] so that they’re doing X rays, MRIs, soar testing, like ensuring you’re wholesome, in order that they’re getting a wholesome asset or participant.
“I’m doing that with one other particular person, which is Caris LeVert we’re going one after the opposite. So it was nearly like a 4 or 5 hour course of.”
Niang, 31, admitted he felt nerves assembly his new teammates for the primary time on the recreation, explaining the human facet of the sudden transfer.
He informed: “So we we fly in for a 4 or 5 hour course of, we go to the Hawks recreation then, and that’s one in all our first instances, type of like, assembly everyone.
“It’s simply, like, a cool state of affairs, as a result of it’s like, you’re the brand new child in school, however you’re considering in your head, like that, these guys suppose ‘I’m coming to take their place”
“Nevertheless it’s all nice, we’ve got nice guys on the locker room, and you then sit there and also you watch them play Milwaukee, and also you’re nonetheless in a daze since you nonetheless don’t know what’s like occurred.”
He added: “After which they beat Milwaukee, and you then fly to DC in a single day, as a result of we’ve got a again to again. And I’m like, God, this workforce simply beat Milwaukee with out us. We’re about to play DC like I don’t need to mess something up.
“So it’s only a whirlwind of feelings so I’ve been dwelling out of a suitcase right here for, like, 10 days. And fortuitously, we’ll have All-Star break so I’ll be capable of go residence.”
Georges Niang admitted he had one actual fear upon studying he had been traded to the Hawks, questioning if he had beforehand offended any participant on the roster, together with star man Trae Younger.
He defined: “The issue with me is I’ve been identified to speak some ___, so I’m their roster like OK… who’ve I actually stated some outlandish stuff to?
“Fortunately I hadn’t actually stated something to Ice Trae.”
