The Atlanta Hawks have extended guard CJ McCollum, the team announced on Monday.
According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, it’s a one-year, $21 million contract extension, plus a trade kicker.
The Hawks acquired the 34-year-old on Jan. 9, 2026, from the Washington Wizards. McCollum appeared in 41 games with Atlanta this past season (25 starts), averaging 18.7 points, 4.1 assists, and 3.1 rebounds in 28.8 minutes. The Hawks owned a 27-14 record with McCollum in the lineup, including a 19-6 record in games in which he started.
In total, he saw action in 76 games (60 starts) during the 2025-26 season, notching 18.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.9 assists in 29.8 minutes. McCollum’s 76 games played marked his most appearances in a single season since the 2017-18 campaign (81).
He appeared and started in all six of Atlanta’s playoff games against the New York Knicks in the first round of the 2026 Eastern Conference Playoffs, tallying 19.2 points, 3.0 rebounds, and 2.0 assists in 32.0 minutes. McCollum buried the game-winning bucket in each of Atlanta’s two victories over the Knicks (Game 2, Game 3), becoming just the second player since at least 1997-98 to score the game-winning basket in the final 60 seconds of consecutive playoff games, per Elias Sports.
Selected with the 10th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft by Portland, McCollum has appeared in 863 games (750 starts) over the course of his 13-season career, suiting up for Portland, New Orleans, Washington, and Atlanta.
The Lehigh product owns career averages of 19.5 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 3.8 assists in 31.9 minutes of play (.453 FG%, .395 3FG%, .796 FT%). In 73 career playoff games (63 starts), he has recorded 20.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 3.0 assists in 35.2 minutes of action. He has buried 2,180 career three-pointers, the 16th-most in NBA history. He is one of only seven players in NBA history to knock down over 2,000 triples while shooting .395%-or-better from deep, joining Ray Allen, Stephen Curry, Buddy Hield, Kyle Korver, Reggie Miller, and Klay Thompson.
McCollum was a great acquisition for the Hawks, and because of him, Atlanta gave the world-champion Knicks their toughest series. The Hawks, who finished 46-36 last season and have a decent core, should be better next season.
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