Hey, remember John Collins?

He was the Hawks’ leading scorer in 2018-19, when he was 21, and was second on the team in usage rate. A year later he was second only to Trae Young and averaged a career-high 21.6 points per game. He was the Hawks’ second-leading scorer for each of the next three seasons, even as he dipped to fourth on the team in usage by 2021-22.

嘿，还记得约翰柯林斯吗？

他是老鹰队2018-19 赛季的头号得分手，当时他 21 岁，使用率在球队中排名第二。一年后，他仅次于特雷杨，场均得到职业生涯最高的 21.6 分。在接下来的三个赛季中，他都是老鹰队的第二得分手，尽管他在 2021-22 赛季的使用率下降到了球队的第四位。

And now, in 2022-23, on the second year of a $126 million contract, Collins is Atlanta’s fourth-leading scorer and fifth in usage. Collins should be in the prime of his career; he’s 25 years old, he’s worked to become a respectable 3-point shooter and his once highly suspect defense has become more dependable.

Watch a Hawks game, however, and there are long stretches when you forget he’s even on the court. In his sixth season, he’s never had fewer touches or scored less often. He’s averaging a career-low 18.7 points per 100 possessions, with a 16.0 usage rate that pales next to the 23.7 of his second season; it has declined every year since.

而现在，在 2022-23 赛季，也就是 1.26 亿美元合同的第二年，科林斯是老鹰的第四得分手，使用率排名第五。柯林斯本应该正处于职业生涯的巅峰时期；他今年 25 岁，他努力成为一名受人尊敬的三分射手，他曾经备受怀疑的防守也变得更加可靠。

然而，观看老鹰队的比赛时，有很长一段时间你会忘记他甚至在场上。在他的第六个赛季中，他的触球次数或得分次数从未减少过。他每 100 回合得到职业生涯最低的 18.7 分，16.0 的使用率与他第二个赛季的 23.7 相比相形见绌；从第二个赛季后，它每年都在下降。

What once was an awesome Collins-Young pick-and-roll pairing has now become a rare sight; the acquisition of Clint Capela made him the screener most of the time, and the Hawks rarely play Collins at center anymore now that Danilo Gallinari is gone and Onyeka Okongwu has established himself as a solid backup. Collins played 47 percent of his minutes at center in 2019-20, according to Cleaning the glass; this season, that figure is 2 percent.

What’s bad for Collins is perhaps worse for the Hawks. He’s the second-highest paid player on a roster that is already at next season’s tax line, even before any money is spent to upgrade a bench leaking points nearly every night. Any prayer of re-signing Dejounte Murray in 2024 and still remaining below the tax line depends in part on rerouting one of Atlanta’s other big contracts prior to that time; Collins would seemingly be at the top of that list.

曾经很棒的 科林斯-杨 挡拆组合现在已成为罕见的景象；克林特卡佩拉的收购让他在大部分时间成为掩护者，老鹰队不再让科林斯担任中锋，因为达尼洛加里纳利已经离开，而奥涅卡奥孔武已经确立了自己作为可靠替补的地位。根据 Cleaning the Glass 的说法，柯林斯在 2019-20 赛季有 47% 的时间在中锋位置；本赛季，这个数字是 2%。

这对老鹰队来说可能更糟。他是球队中薪资第二高的球员，这支球队下赛季将达到的奢侈税，甚至几乎没钱升级球队的替补席。而且希望在 2024 年续约穆雷就必须清理掉球队中的大合同；柯林斯似乎排在该名单的首位。

Perhaps not shockingly, our Shams Charania reported last week that Collins’ name has once again come up in trade conversations. This is pretty much a scheduled tweet by now, but it does underscore the current awkwardness of the fit between Collins, his contract and his team … and the difficulty of finding the right landing spot for a player who thrives when he can play the five on offense and as a four on defense.

As a result, Collins is the top name on my All-Change of Scenery Team — 10 guys who are pretty clearly wasting time on their current rosters but could do plenty more on a different one. This isn’t a trade rumors column per se, but the Venn diagram between this list and such a column would likely have significant overlap.

Free John Collins! Here are the other players around the league who could desperately use a change of scenery:

也许并不令人震惊，我们的 Shams Charania上周报道说柯林斯的名字再次出现在交易名单中。到目前为止，这虽然是一条预言，但它确实强调了柯林斯、他的合同和他的球队之间目前的尴尬……以及为一名明星球员在球场的尴尬定位。

结果，柯林斯成为了我的“需要被交易的球员名单”中的头号人物——这 10 个人显然在他们目前的球队中很尴尬，但可以在另一个球队上做更多的事情。这本身不是交易谣言专栏，但此列表与此类专栏之间的信息可能有很大的重叠。

释放约翰·柯林斯！以下是联盟中其他可以拼命改变环境的球员：

佩顿普里查德，PG，凯尔特人

Boston is going gangbusters but is so deep in the backcourt that Payton Pritchard has been squeezed into a bit role despite performing well in his limited minutes. With Marcus Smart, Malcolm Brogdon and Derrick White ahead of him in the backcourt pecking order, it’s been near-impossible for Pritchard to break through. Pritchard is 25, shoots 41.2 percent career from 3 and has another year left beyond this one on a rookie contract that pays him peanuts. He’s valuable! He’s just less valuable to Boston right now than almost any other team.

波士顿正在大放异彩，但后场的深度过大，以至于佩顿·普里查德尽管在有限的上场时间里表现出色，但还是被挤在了末尾。马库斯-斯马特、马尔科姆-布罗格登和德里克-怀特在后场的出场顺序中排在他前面，普里查德想要突破几乎是不可能的。普里查德今年 25 岁，职业生涯的三分球命中率为 41.2%，并且新秀合同到期还有一年的时间，这份合同很实惠。他很有价值！他在其他球队的价值会比在波士顿更大。

In his case, one out would seem to be as a trade chip to get Boston another big man. The Celtics have thus far survived the absence of Robert Williams III, with the help of some solid contributions from scrap-heap pickup Luke Kornet, but the injuries to Williams and Gallinari exposed what is perhaps the one weakness on a loaded Boston team.

在有他的情况下，波士顿可以把他当作获得另一个大个子的交易筹码。到目前为止，凯尔特人队在罗伯特威廉姆斯三世缺席的情况下发挥出色，这得益于卢克科内特的一些可靠贡献，但威廉姆斯和加里纳利的受伤暴露了这支负载过重的波士顿队的唯一弱点。

埃文·富尼耶，SG，尼克斯

Evan Fournier got off to a slow start with the Knicks this season, which was unfortunate because a) New York has 23 other options at shooting guard and b) he’s not a former Chicago Bull.

In Fournier’s case, it’s hard to say a 260-minute sample of subpar shooting really translates into a definitive case that he’s washed at 30. He’s perhaps stretched as a starter at this point and makes $37 million over the next two years (there’s also a team option in 2024-25), so he’s not the easiest player to move in a trade. Nonetheless, there are teams short of bench shooting and playmaking that he’d pretty clearly help.

It’s just not clear the Knicks are one of them, not with Quentin Grimes, Miles McBride and Cam Reddish pushing for minutes, Immanuel Quickley able to play both guard spots and Derrick Rose still in the mix.

埃文·富尼耶本赛季在尼克斯队慢热，这很不幸，因为纽约队在得分后卫上还有两三个其他选择，并且他不是前芝加哥公牛队的球员。

很难说这位擅长投篮的分位一定会被交易，但即便他在 30 岁时就被球队淘交易。他仍然可能成为一名首发球员，并在接下来的两年里赚了 3700 万美元（还有一个2024-25 年的球队选项），所以他不是最容易交易的球员。尽管如此，有些球队还是缺乏他可以提供帮助的替补角色和组织进攻能力。

只是不清楚尼克斯队是不是其中之一，昆汀·格莱姆斯、迈尔斯·麦克布赖德和卡姆·雷迪什都在争取上场时间，伊曼纽尔·奎克利能够打两个后卫位置，而德里克·罗斯仍在球队中。

贾克森海耶斯，中锋，鹈鹕

Jaxson Hayes was a starter for New Orleans as the Pelicans made their run to the playoffs last season. This year, with Zion Williamson back in the mix and Trey Murphy emerging, he’s had a hard time getting on the court. Missing time with a preseason elbow injury didn’t help, but Hayes has only played 44 minutes all season. He collected DNPs for nine straight games until finally entering in garbage time of Monday’s scrimmage against the Warriors’ JV squad, brought in as the closer to protect a 41-point lead with seven minutes left.

Hayes doesn’t fit the current iteration of the Pelicans, but last season was proof of concept for him as a poor man’s version of Collins, a rim-running big who can also step out and make the occasional 3. He’s on the final year of his rookie deal, making $6.8 million, and the Pelicans are already over next year’s tax line, so it seems hugely unlikely he’ll be back. Yes, he has his weaknesses, but he’s only 22, and he could help somebody. One hopes one of the rebuilding teams takes a look at him before the year is out.

贾克森海耶斯是新奥尔良的首发球员，因为鹈鹕队上赛季进入了季后赛。今年，随着锡安威廉姆森的回归和特雷墨菲的出现，他很难上场。季前赛肘部受伤缺席比赛也影响了他，海耶斯整个赛季只打了 44 分钟。他连续九场比赛都获得了 DNP（不能上场比赛的球员），直到周一与勇士的的垃圾时间上场，在比赛还剩 7 分钟时保住球队接近 41 分的领先优势。

海耶斯不适合目前的鹈鹕队，但上个赛季证明了他是一个穷人版的科林斯，一个跑框的大个子，也可以偶尔投进三分。他处于最后一年的新秀合同，680 万美元，而鹈鹕队已经超过了明年的奢侈税，所以他回来的可能性很小。是的，他有他的弱点，但他只有 22 岁，他可以帮助球队。人们希望其中一支重建球队可以在交易截止日前看一看他。

RJ汉普顿，SG，魔术

The Magic declined to pick up R.J. Hampton’s fourth-year option last month, and if you look at their situation, it was understandable. The Magic already have 12 players under contract for 2023-24, plus they have three draft picks coming their way and enough cap room to make a splash too. Hampton was coming off an awful 2021-22 and would have had a $4.2 million cap hit, and the Magic already have two other young combo guards (Cole Anthony and Jalen Suggs) who factor more prominently in their plans.

Here’s the thing: Hampton has actually played pretty well this season when opportunity has put him on the court. Those chances likely will vanish once Anthony, Gary Harris and Markelle Fultz return to the lineup, but thus far, the 21-year-old has been a pleasant surprise for a team that has not exactly been awash in elite guard play. Of particular note has been a shooting uptick (small sample warning) that has him at 14-of-32 from 3 and 20-of-24 from the line, both of which would smash his career high if he keeps them up.

The Magic are limited to offering him $4.2 million in free agency after the season, and unfortunately for Hampton, that limit would travel to his new team in a trade. It’s still possible he gets out — we saw it a year ago with Jalen Smith in Indiana — but the more likely scenario is that he’ll have to play out the season to get his wings.

魔术队上个月拒绝执行RJ 汉普顿的第四年选项，如果你看看他们的情况，这是可以理解的。魔术队已经有 12 名球员在 2023-24 赛季合同到期，此外他们还有三个选秀权和足够的薪金空间来引起轰动。汉普顿在 2021-22 赛季的表现很糟糕，而魔术队已经有了另外两名年轻的双能卫（科尔安东尼和贾伦萨格斯），他们在球队的计划中占据了更重要的位置。

事情是这样的：当让他上场时，汉普顿本赛季实际上打得很好。但一旦安东尼、加里哈里斯和马克尔富尔茨回到阵容中，这些机会可能会消失，但到目前为止，这位 21 岁的球员对于一支并没有明星后卫的球队来说是一个惊喜。特别值得注意的是他的投篮命中率（虽然是小样本）他 32 投 14 中，罚球命中率 24 投 20 中，如果他保持这种状态，这两项都将打破他的职业生涯新高。

魔术队在赛季结束后为他发完 420 万美元他就是自由球员，不幸的是，对于汉普顿来说，这个限制将在交易中转移到他的新球队。他仍然有可能离开——我们一年前在步行者与贾伦·史密斯身上看到过——但更有可能的情况是他必须打完这个赛季才签约新球队。

埃里克戈登，SG，火箭队

Eric Gordon trade rumors are another one in the “scheduled tweet” category, but seriously … get this guy out of Houston. It’s borderline hilarious that the Rockets were using him as a defensive stopper against alpha wings while Jae’Sean Tate was out, but that says everything about his mismatch on this roster — a tough, veteran shooter on a young, wild team indiscriminately flinging the ball all over the gym and occasionally running back on defense.

Gordon turns 34 next month and has better things to do than this. He remains a productive player who could help a contending team, and his contract isn’t guaranteed beyond this season unless his team wins the championship. His $19.6 million cap number isn’t the easiest to work into a trade. But one hopes this is the year he finally lands someplace where his contributions will matter.

埃里克戈登会被交易是大家都知道的，但说真的......让这个人离开休斯顿。在泰特缺席的情况下，火箭队将他用作防守侧翼球员，这有点搞笑，但这说明了他不适合这个球队的一切——在一支年轻、狂野的球队中，一名强硬、经验丰富的射手不分青红皂白地参与进攻，偶尔跑回防守。

戈登下个月就 34 岁了，他有比这更重要的事情要做。他仍然是一名可以帮助一支有竞争力的球队的高效球员，除非他的球队赢得冠军，否则他的合同不会在本赛季结束后得到保证。他 1960 万美元的上限数字并不是最容易交易的。但人们希望今年他最终登陆某个球队，他的贡献将发挥重要作用。

马克威廉姆斯，中锋，黄蜂队

Do you remember when the Hornets took Mark Williams in the lottery and we thought he might be their starting center? Do the Hornets? Banished to the end of the bench by the emergence of Nick Richards and the continued employment of Mason Plumlee, Williams has played only 13 minutes this season.

Charlotte banished him to the G League instead, where he played four games and absolutely murdered everybody, averaging 23 points and 15 rebounds and ranking second in the G League in PER.

你还记得黄蜂队在乐透区选中马克威廉姆斯时我们认为他可能是他们的首发中锋吗？黄蜂呢？由于尼克理查兹的出现和梅森普卢姆利的续约，威廉姆斯被排到替补席的最后，本赛季威廉姆斯只打了 13 分钟。

夏洛特反而把他放逐到了发展联盟，他在那里打了四场比赛，秒杀了所有人，场均得到23分和15个篮板，PER值在发展联盟中排名第二。

A change of scenery in this case appears unlikely, given that the Hornets just drafted him. More likely is a change of scenery around him, actually. With Charlotte mired at 4-14, the question is when they might make an early pivot to tanking in the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes. If so, trading a veteran like Plumlee and opening playing time for Williams would seem to be the right move.

Either way, free Mark Williams! He can’t prove anything else by dunking on people in Greensboro. He needs NBA minutes now.

考虑到黄蜂刚刚选中了他，交易的情况似乎不太可能。实际上，更有可能是他周围的环境发生了变化。夏洛特以 4-14 的战绩陷入困境，问题是他们什么时候可以在维克多·温班亚马的抽奖活动中尽早做出调整。如果是这样，交易一个像普拉姆利这样的老将并为威廉姆斯增加上场时间似乎是正确的举动。

无论哪种方式，释放马克威廉姆斯！他不能通过在发展联盟的人身上扣篮来证明任何其他东西。他现在需要NBA 上场时间。

马蒂斯赛布尔，SG，76 人队

Matisse Thybulle is a two-time All-Defense selection who is such a potent ball thief that his league-leading 3.4 percent steal rate last season was actually a career low. He’s also fallen out of the mix almost entirely in Philadelphia, as the Sixers look to add more shooting and spacing around James Harden and Joel Embiid.

It’s true that Thybulle’s offense has made it difficult to keep him on the court at times, but it still says here that the fourth-year wing can find the right fit on an up-tempo team. He is a one-of-a-kind defensive disruptor with frog-tongue hands and an uncanny knack for blocking shots from behind.

The guard makes only $4.4 million and will be a restricted free agent after the season, which would put an acquiring team in a favorable position to retain him long term. Philadelphia isn’t the right team for him, but that club is out there. The Sixers are likely interested in finding that team too, as Thybulle’s expiring contract is one of their few remaining trade chips.

马蒂斯赛布尔两次入选最佳防守阵容，他是一个如此强大的偷球者，以至于他上赛季领先联盟的 3.4% 抢断率只是他较低的水平。他在费城也几乎完全被排除在阵容外，因为 76 人队希望在詹姆斯哈登和乔尔恩比德周围增加更多的投篮和空间。

的确，塞布尔的进攻有时让他很难留在场上，但仍然表明，这位四年级的边锋可以在一支快节奏的球队中找到合适的位置。他是独一无二的防守破坏者，拥有鬼魅的双手和从背后盖帽的不可思议的诀窍。

这名前锋的年薪仅为 440 万美元，赛季结束后将成为受限制自由球员，这将使收购球队可以长期留住他。费城不是适合他的球队，但有球队适合。76 人队可能也有兴趣找到那支球队，因为赛布尔即将到期的合同是他们为数不多的交易筹码之一。

里乔恩·霍姆斯，中锋，国王队

This one might be harder to pull off, as Richaun Holmes is a center who makes $36 million over the next three years. Moving non-elite centers is hard at any time, but particularly when their own team isn’t playing them.

The lord of the big-man floater, Holmes was zapped from the Kings rotation after just eight games, only resurfacing to close a blowout win over Brooklyn. It’s hard to argue that Holmes played well in those first few games, with massive declines in rebounds and blocks and an infinite decline in assists (he had, um, zero).

Nonetheless, I have a hard time believing this is truly his new ability level. Holmes is 29 and was a solid starter a year ago; the two years before that, he was one of the Kings’ best players. I’d like to see him get a chance on the court someplace.

这个可能很难实现，因为里乔恩·霍姆斯是一名在未来三年内赚 3600 万美元的中锋。交易非精英中锋在任何时候都很困难，尤其是当他们自己的球队不用他们的时候。

作为大个子，霍姆斯在仅仅八场比赛后就被国王队淘汰出局，只是重新出现在对篮网的大胜。很难说里乔恩·霍姆斯在前几场比赛中打得很好，篮板和盖帽大幅下降，助攻无限下降（比如0个）。

尽管如此，我很难相信这真的是他的能力水平。他今年 29 岁，一年前他是一名出色的首发球员；在那之前的两年，他是国王队最好的球员之一。我希望看到他在某个地方有机会上场。

邓肯罗宾逊，小前锋，热火队

Unlike a lot of the other players on this list, Robinson still plays in Miami … sort of. The Heat steadily moved away from him as last season wore on, replacing him in the starting lineup with Max Strus and then severely limiting his minutes in the playoffs. If you follow their rotation choices, the Heat seemingly would be doing the same this season if they could ever field a full roster.

In the meantime, have we figured out what happened to his shot? Robinson panicked defenses in the Heat’s run to the NBA Finals in 2020, shooting 44.6 percent from 3. Since then, it’s been steadily downhill: 40.8 percent in 2020-21, 37.2 percent in 2021-22 and a ghastly 30.6 percent this season. For a guy who shoots 2s about as often as I drink decaf, that’s a disaster.

Confounding matters is the fact that Robinson makes $75 million over the next four years. No, moving this contract will not be easy and likely only as part of a much larger blockbuster for Miami. Nonetheless, I’d like to see him get a fresh start; there doesn’t seem to be a logical reason why he couldn’t revert to 40 percent from distance, and that version of Robinson is still a valuable player. It’s just getting harder and harder to see that happening in Miami.

与这份名单上的许多其他球员不同，罗宾逊仍然在迈阿密打球。上赛季热火队逐渐远离他，用马克斯·斯特鲁斯取代他进入首发阵容，然后在季后赛中严重限制了他的上场时间。如果你遵循他们的轮换选择，热火队本赛季似乎也会做同样的事情，如果他们能够派出完整的阵容的话。

与此同时，我们没有弄清楚他的投篮发生了什么事，罗宾逊在热火队进入 2020 年 NBA 总决赛的过程中发挥出色，三分球命中率为 44.6%。从那以后，它一直在稳步下滑：2020-21 赛季为 40.8%，2021-22 赛季为 37.2%，本赛季为可怕的 30.6%。对于一个靠投篮吃饭的人来说，那是一场灾难。

令人困惑的是，罗宾逊在接下来的四年里要赚7500 万美元。交易这份合同并不容易，而且很可能只是作为迈阿密更大的交易的一部分。尽管如此，我还是希望看到他重新开始；似乎没有合理的理由证明他不能恢复到 40%的三分命中率，罗宾逊仍然是一名有价值的球员。只是越来越难在迈阿密发生这种情况。