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12 August 2025

• Brad Rowland on Trae Young reporting

  I’m surprised this isn’t on here tbh. He basically did another entire rundown on the Trae contract situation, and the reporting around it. Specifically the Jake Fischer stuff recently.

  He said that the Hawks have definitely talked to Trae’s reps, so all of that seems to be an exaggeration.

  The main sticking point is that the Hawks just are not going to offer him the max this summer. They were willing to talk and see if common ground could be found, but that obviously went nowhere.

  Aside from that this isn’t something he expects to actually impact the team next season. Said that Trae loves Quin and Quin loves Trae. Which is very important.

  Mostly just posting as it provides clarity from the person I think has the best track record and is most reputable overall in covering the Hawks.

  This is the YouTube link

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• The Hawks' Future Plans if we manage to get a Top 3 Pick in the 2026 Draft

  It's the off-season, and there isn't really a lot to talk about. So let's discuss hypotheticals. Also, considering all the factors that come into play, such as: • Our player's extensions • Onsi's meticulous and frugal nature • Our team's potential to be a top 4 seed this year • And the young core's timeline being separate from the Trae timeline What do you think are the front office's plans for the future if we are suddenly gifted a top 3 or even a top 1 pick in next year's draft? Personally, I see us drafting either Darryn Peterson or AJ Dybantsa. More leaning towards Peterson. A few things of note here, I am pretty high on Dyson's potential to grow as a guard who can eventually run our offense. His passing is already great but we tend to compare it to Trae who's, no doubt, a generational passer. But learning more under Trae, I can see him eventually becoming elite on that end as well, and stay as an elite defender at the same time. Darryn Peterson is more of an elite combo guard, but he considers himself a point guard. He can slot in as the team's 1 or 2 quite easily. It's way too early to tell, but do ya'll agree with a potential Peterson pick, or would you rather take Dybantsa or Boozer, or someone else? Will a potential top 3 lottery pick result in the end of the Trae Young era with the Hawks? I personally hope Trae Young is, at most, offered a bit under the max, or even better, offers a Brunson type discount on his contract extension, that way everyone gets paid, and Trae can retire his jersey number with the Hawks. submitted by /u/Milezeroe [link] [comments]

• Atlanta Hawks Announce 2025 Preseason Schedule

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• My view on the starting center situation and KP’s role.

  I know we’ve all seen a lot of discourse over the last month and a half about who should start at center between O and KP. There’s good arguments on both sides and I found myself wavering back and forth on the issue until today where I really started thinking about KP and his role with the team this season. In the end I came to the conclusion that even if he is the second best player on the team (depending on how big of a leap Jalen takes) it would be smarter to bring him off the bench and I think that’s exactly what Quin is going to do. I know a lot of fans don’t want to hear or accept that so I wanted to help rationalize the thought process for everyone.

  As most of you probably know the main reason it makes sense to have KP come off the bench is to reduce his minutes in an attempt to keep him healthy. As long as he can he can play about 3 games for every 1 he misses and give us 24-28 high impact minutes (depending on if we close with him or not) a night off the bench it’s a massive win. I see the appeal in starting him but if he’s playing on a loose minutes restriction it’d be so much easier to manage with him coming off the bench. If you start him and play him the first 6-8 minutes of the first quarter we only have him for about 16-22 minutes for the entire rest of the game. The huge chunks of time between his stints could really throw off his rhythm. It’d also be harder on Quin and the rest of team if he’s having to avoid using KP for long stretches in the middle of games just so he can be available in the 4th.

  However if you reverse that and he sits the first 6-8 we’d now have him for essentially starter minutes for the rest of the game. There wouldn’t be a need to over extend guys or play them down a position to give KP extra time later. This would also be huge for OT games.

  Like I said in the beginning there was a time that I was wavering on this too. At first I thought it was an easy decision to start O because he was going to be the longer term option and really emerged as a core guy in a year in which he kind of had to. But then I started seeing KP’s advanced stats and despite being pretty high on him already even I didn’t realize just how impactful he’d been when healthy his last two years in Boston.

  Seeing how much he elevated that team when he could actually play made me love the fit with Trae and Jalen even more and I really wanted him to share the court with them as much as possible. KP is the rare case of a guy with real star level talent that is both willing AND has the ability to scale down into a role and be just as effective. That’s not very common. Even if a top player is willing to accept the role if they don’t bring enough to the table outside of on ball creation scaling their game down isn’t really worth it. The fact KP can switch back and forth between being a go to guy and a tertiary player who’s going to protect the rim, screen, provide elite spacing, punish mismatches and act as a passing hub means he slots perfectly into any line up. A truly rare and versatile player. And that versatility is exactly he shouldn’t spend all of his time with Trae and Jalen.

  As great as KP is in his role it’d be a serious waste to never use him to his full potential as an on ball creator. Especially for a team that’s struggled so hard to find consistent offensive flow without Trae on the court. KP should step right into the usage of either Trae or Jalen when one of them is off. Scale him up and have him play a two man game with the other one, run actions for him, give him post touches, have him screen over and over to force guards to switch on him, etc. He’s excellent at all of these and would provide a completely different look to anything we’ve had in the Trae era. So as good as he’d be together with both them he may actually provide more value being on the court when one sits. I’m also sure Jalen would love having such a high level player to take some pressure off of him when Trae isn’t on. It’s a lot easier to set these lineups up and give KP the usage he deserves if he comes in off the bench.

  If we can live without him for half of the first quarter it’ll set us up to go full throttle for the remaining three and a half. Whether it be as a 1st/2nd option or an ultra high end role player similar to what he was doing in Boston he’s going to be massive for this team. I’m really hoping we’ve just been making advanced payments on future injuries the past 5 seasons and we go the rest of the decade without a single one of our top guys missing significant time lol.

  This was a long post and I thank anybody who took the time to read it. I hope I could at least make some of the “start KP” people see the benefit of bringing him in off the bench. If this team is healthy I actually think there’s a much higher chance of us being top 2 in the conference than there is of us not being in the top 4. Here’s to hoping we finally see this whole thing come together and all the years of disappointment and frustration are rewarded with a highly successful season and the start of extended championship window.

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• Zaccharie Risacher 12 pts 2 threes 6 rebs vs Great Britain Friendly Game

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• 5 Minute Survey for my term paper about the Evolution of the NBA

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbbvYURX_fRdpeKdVrR-koQs4WcebP-Ga7mH7FtrGpFlyH0g/viewform?usp=header Please help me to complete my seminar paper which is mandatory for me getting a good Abitur by completing my survey on the topic of : The evolution of basketball

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• Survey about the NBAs Evolution

  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbbvYURX_fRdpeKdVrR-koQs4WcebP-Ga7mH7FtrGpFlyH0g/viewform?usp=header Please help me to complete my seminar paper which is mandatory for me getting a good Abitur by completing my survey on the topic of : The evolution of basketball

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• To Hawks Fans:

  As a TWolves fan: Please take good care of Nickeil Alexander-Walker. He can be occasionally streaky shooter, but he’s a great person, a good defender, and definitely a culture builder. NAW deserved his bag and I’m glad he’s getting it. Hope grows into a Starter for you guys with his increased minutes this season. His nickname with us was Skywalker, so keep that going. Wish you guys the best in the East.

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• Mo Gueye Appreciation Post

  One of the most impactful defenders in a class that includes Wemby, Thompson Twins and Toumani Camara! submitted by /u/Emotional-Tourist827 [link] [comments]

• [Fischer] Sources say Young's side has actually been resigned for some time to the prospect of seeing out the final guaranteed year on his current contract rather than securing an extension

  Sources say Young's side has actually been resigned for some time to the prospect of seeing out the final guaranteed year on his current contract rather than securing an extension, like his current contract, worth in excess of $200 million. He'd then have to make a decision about his $49 million player option for 2026-27. Yet if Young indeed has the sort of season that he thinks he and the Hawks are capable of, it's certainly feasible that he could emerge as one of the league's premier free agents in the summer of 2026 should he decline the player option. The reported disappointment Young is said to be feeling about his contract status appears to stem largely from the fact that the Hawks never really broached an extension at all. Trae Young is confident, sources say, in his ability to lead the Hawks back to the playoffs, which could prove to be a meaningful inflection point for both Atlanta and Young himself to hold extension talks.

  Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcstein/p/jake-fischer-latest-lots-of-fresh?r=nuq3a&utm_medium=ios

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