Hawks acquire Giorgos Printezis in Trade with OKC

[Jamaaliver]

The Hawks and Thunder are working on a sign-and-trade that would send Sefolosha to Atlanta but allow the Thunder to reap a trade exception...The Thunder will receive the rights to draft-and-stash prospect Sofoklis Schortsanitis, while Atlanta gets Sefolosha, the rights to fellow draft-and-stash prospect Giorgos Printezis, and cash.

http://www.hoopsrumors.com/2014/07/hawks-thabo-sefolosha.html

Never heard of him. SF drafted in 2008. He's already 29 years old. NOT a good 3-pt shooter. Avg 10 ppg 3 rpg for the greek league.http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Giorgos-Printezis-1295/

NBADraft.net scouting report:

Strengths: Small forward who plays with great energy and hustle ...Solid athlete, with good size to play the 3 ... Very strong one on one player considering he's European

http://www.nbadraft.net/players/giorgos-printezis

Seems like there isn't much benefit here other than some goodwill in hooking OKC up with the trade exception...

[ATL Boy]

Will probably never see the nba


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[theatlfan]

Posted this in the Thabo thread, but you have to understand what happened here. The League Office is cracking down on trades where a team simply gets assets to take on salary. Whereas OKC didn't have to give up a player (since they are technically giving up Thabo), my guess is that we still wanted a player to fill in for the "overseas guy who'll never make the NBA but fills the minimum requirement to deal out in a trade down the line" category.