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With Bogdan Bogdanovic signed, the Hawks’ playoffs goal is well within reach


Atlanta officially has signed Bogdan Bogdanovic after Sacramento did not match the Hawks’ four-year, $72 million offer sheet for the 28-year-old shooting guard. Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk made it as hard as he could on Kings general manager Monte McNair to match the Hawks’ offer by adding a maximum 15 percent trade kicker on Bogdanovic’s deal that must be paid by the team dealing him, so if McNair viewed him as a trade piece down the road, it would have been costly to move him. Plus, Bogdanovic would have had a full no-trade clause in his contract in Year 1, so even McNair wanted to deal him, he couldn’t have without his approval.

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Sources around the league became confident in Atlanta’s ability to sign the Serbian after it was clear a reported sign-and-trade agreement between Milwaukee and Sacramento — before free agency officially opened —…





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