Right smack during the NBA Finals, the Charlotte Hornets and Los Angeles Clippers completed a trade that sent according to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

So on the floor, this trade essentially is a swap of disappointing new players in Stephenson and Hawes. The biggest difference between the two are their salaries -- Stephenson is entering the second year of a three-year deal at $9 million apiece, but the team has an option on the third year. Therefore, the risk is much smaller than bringing in Hawes, who has two more guaranteed years left between $5.5 and $6 million apiece, with a $6 million player option in 2017-2018 that it looks like he’ll pick up.

Let’s look at this trade for each team.

Los Angeles Clippers

The Clippers have made no secrets that they’ve been trying to upgrade their wing position, even though they have recently announced that Stephenson will be used more as a utility player than the starting small forward. If that’s true, it will be interesting to see who else they pick up this summer -- if Barnes is gone and Stephenson isn’t starting, I’m not sure they have a wing on their roster that’s even close to replacement level. This obviously won’t be their final roster, but they certainly are very shallow at that position.

However, at just one year guaranteed for a player who was a borderline All-Star for the Indiana Pacers just a year ago, this probably isn’t a terrible gamble. It probably hurts to give up on Hawes, who was their big free agent signing last summer and this is almost a guarantee that they’ll push hard to re-sign center battles in the Eastern Conference playoffs anymore.