With the NBA trade deadline just two days away, conversations around the league are heating up and there will surely be plenty of rumors leading up to the 3 p.m. ET Thursday cutoff.

The Thunder have surfaced in some rumors thus far as the team is armed with a $10.8 million trade exception and two open roster spots after dealing Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot on Friday to the Chicago Bulls.

On Monday, a report by Marc Stein of The New York Times came out that indicated the Thunder are among the teams targeting Wesley Matthews from the New York Knicks if he were to hit the buyout market.

In addition to that report, it was speculated on Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective Podcast that Atlanta Hawks forward Taurean Prince would be a player that makes sense for the Thunder to pursue as he is apparently available in trade discussions.

“Taurean Prince who was the apple of [the Hawks’] eye a couple of years ago,” Windhorst said. “He got hurt this year and that’s what kind of opened the door for [Kevin] Huerter and some of their other young guys. Taurean Prince is available; he’s still on his rookie deal. A team that makes sense for Prince is Oklahoma City but I don’t know who Oklahoma City has to trade. They are out future picks. Their payroll is enormous.”

While Windhorst speculated that Prince makes sense for the Thunder, the team has been previously linked to the third-year forward as it was reported by Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer that the Thunder have looked at Prince in recent weeks.

Prince, the No. 12 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, has emerged as one of the leading scorers for the Hawks, averaging 13.5 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.1 steals per game while he is shooting 37.4 percent from 3-point range.

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With Trae Young, John Collins and Huerter also in the picture, the future of Prince in Atlanta could come into question since he may not fit into the big picture. Prince will become a restricted free agent after the 2019-20 season so the Hawks would theoretically have to pay him a substantial salary.

Prince has established himself as a ‘3-and-D’ player over his three seasons in the league and could be someone the Thunder target via trade either this season or beyond and would appear to be a good fit for the team given his versatility and ability to shoot.

As Windhorst pointed out, it is unclear what the Thunder would have to give up in such a trade but the team does have a trade exception and has recently lowered their tax bill from $149.3 million to $66.1 million and that could make it easier for Sam Presti to be aggressive before the deadline.

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Presti has been active around the trade deadline during his tenure as general manager and it seems reasonable to believe the team will once again be aggressive this season as the team makes its run toward the postseason.

We’ll see what he has in store this week…