7 Awful Contracts the Hawks Could Take On for Draft Picks

By Chris Guest | May 27, 2018

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MIAMI, FL – MARCH 29: Tyler Johnson #8 of the Miami Heat (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images) /

Tyler Johnson, 4 years/$50 million

In a quirk of fate, Heat President Pat Riley provided combo guard Tyler Johnson a backloaded contract that provides him an astonishing $40 million over the final two years of his deal, making it perhaps the most immovable of any of these atrocious deals – though at least Johnson can provide a modicum of productiveness to whatever team takes on those rough final two years.

Johnson has always played well against the Hawks, and his defensive intensity, solid shooting numbers (37.1% in his career from downtown) and relative youth (26 years old) means he will be productive for Atlanta if they were to offer a lifeline to Miami – who are looking to contend for the foreseeable future.

Nabbing a first rounder from Miami to take Johnson would be nice, though they are quite thin in that department at the moment, and their second-rounders are even more sparse, as the only one of their own they have is in 2022 or in 2024 (if it lands between 31-55).

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