Hawks aimed to put together the ideal team draws young people focused … but apparently they are not yet anxious to extend their star
His possibleObviously, that post of Take Young did not contain subtext – which was just a message of solidarity with his colleague stellar athlete.
It’s just that … well, we couldn’t help but notice that Young’s post came about three and a half weeks after it became suitable for an extension of his contract, on July 6th:
That re-up could complete at four years and $ 229 million-the same agreement of the Aron Fox has just arrived in San Antonio. And … well, we couldn’t help but notice that, a month after it has become suitable, Young does not yet have that new extension.
Apparently it is not sitting too well with Tree, since Marc J. Spears of and Landscape broadcast on Wednesday on Espn’s “NBA Today”:
“You know, Trae did a lot to show that he hit the Hawks,” Spears said. “Nickeil Alexander-Walker, [Luke] Kennard – convinced them to sign with the Hawks … came to the summer league and met Bryson Graham, the new president, [and] Some of the other new front-office boys. There is a new front office in Atlanta who is trying to make decisions, but what I am listening to at this point – and you can say from Tree’s tweet, and I saw it during the finals – it is disappointed by the fact that it has not arrived, it was not offered. So don’t be surprised at this point [if] He plays this and sees what happens next summer. But for me, he has nothing to demonstrate. He is a star. ”
Young AND An explosive star-star and visionary director, an all-star selection and one-time all-nba four times. He led the NBA to assist last season and recorded an average of over 20 points and 10 Dimes per game in each of the last three seasons. Only Russell Westbrook, Oscar Robertson, James Harden and Isiah Thomas have more 20 and 10 seasons of Young, who led the Hawks to the Eastern Conference finals in 2021.
In question, however, it is whether the Hawks prohibit young people – unavailablely one of the main offensive engines of the NBA and have been perpetually classified as one of its less effective defenders – like a star that is worth paying an entire 30% of the salary limit until the end of the decade, a period that will cover the late 1920s and the first 30 years. Especially considering, from that surprise for the Final Four of the NBA, the Hawks led by the young people went from competing for the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy to defeat him persistently in the gloomy depth of the Eastern Conference.
The Hawks have changed coaches, co-protagonists and lead managers around Young, and the results remained largely disappointing: a record of 160-168 in the last four seasons, the best eighth in the East in that archolite, with four consecutive trips to the game tournament and zero travel beyond the first round of the playoffs. Enough or not, Young served as the face of that mediocre-chomestando mediocre-as-like performance of a team that is constantly classified between or just outside the 10 best offenses of the NBA, but equally constantly ranks among its worst defenses of five to 10.
Last season, however, he felt different. The Hawks came out of the lower third of the League in defensive efficiency, thanks largely to the acquisition and in a breathtaking turn of Dyson Daniels, the most improved player of the League and the defensive player of the year according to the year. They arrived at the semifinals of the NBA Emirates Cup of 2024, with young people who authorizes yet another memorable moment to the Madison Square Garden. They were .500 and a match of sixth place in the east at the end of January, before the striker of the ascendant Jalen Johnson descended with a shoulder injury that ended his season and actually hurried to the balance of Atlanta.
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While the results remained disappointing-unguarding under. The Hawks headed in the summer with an exciting nucleus of large, young and talented athletes around Young-Johnson, Daniels, 2024 n. 1 Pick Zaccharie Roseacher, Onyeka Okongwu-and proceeded to both the draft and the free agency, adding Kristaps Porziņġis, Alexander-Walker, Kennard, fired Georgia Prospect Asa Newell AND An unprotected choice of the first round of 2026 by Pellicani or dollars.
Suddenly, the Hawks have a lot of size, shoot and defensive acumen that surrounds young people – the things of an ideal construction around a minimal guard point that struggles to obtain stops, but those who place themselves among the best of the best when it comes to manipulating a defense and creating great looks for others. (As John Schuhmann of Nba.com recently noticed, the Hawks led the NBA as a shot last season, but only 17th ended up in a percentage of goals on the team effective in the team, which represents 3 episodes that is worth more than 2 pointers.) In an east, at least two steps, they brought to a stone’s throw, at two outdoors, at least two or two packages, they brought to one or two. Packages, with two packages, two packages, a stone’s throw, with two packages, brought a stone’s throw in the upper sex seeds or two packages in centuries in the steps of the whole or two at a little sex set of set sets, at least one out of a sex game, led to an outsot, at least one or two steps on top of a bit of a seed seed, at least one or at least one. Two steps to the top of a little sex seed sex in a sex of burials, led to a little top-up. Hawks have the opportunity to make a significant leap in the standings and perhaps also to contend for the advantage of the house in the house in the opening round of the playoffs.
All that is missing would seem, is a renewed commitment to keep young people from the team’s checks. This is a commitment, however, the Hawks do not have to do at this moment: Young still has two other remaining seasons in the five -year extension, $ 215 million Massimo who has signed in the summer of 2021. The Hawks can finalize an extension with him at any time between June 30, 2026; He is in line to earn $ 46 million this season and holds an option of $ 49 million for 2026-27.
Given that slope-and also given extension decisions waiting on Daniels and on the Porziņġis just acquired-the new general manager of Atlanta Ondi Saleh could prefer to resist, wait to see how his renewed roster performs with Young at the controls and undertake later. Given Young’s ability to give up and hit the free market of free agents next summer, however, it could be a risky proposal; The possibility, however thin, that it could simply walk seems to be gloomy to consider.
You wonder if a four-year compromise-a pact agreement less than the maximum, or a short-term and higher agreement that would allow him to return to the market once he has reached 10 years of service service, a Luka Dončić-Potre was in difficulty. You also wonder, however, if young, having just seen the less decorated and productive fox getting the complete boat, does not see much value in concession.
If this is the case, and if Young enters the season without a new agreement, it will be interesting to see if any disappointment he feels bleeding – and if that uncertainty in the balance translates into a more widespread disappointment for a Hawks team that seemed to have many reasons to be enthusiastic for the season.