During the 2018-19 NBA season, the Atlanta Hawks first employed Jeremy Lin as the team’s backup point guard before buying him out (allowing him to sign with potential NBA Champions, the Toronto Raptors) and naming undrafted rookie Jaylen Adams as the team’s backup one guard. As you can tell, the team didn’t particularly have a reliable option behind Trae Young last year. With that in mind, should the team opt to draft someone in the 2019 NBA Draft to fill that need?
Though the biggest point guard names will be off the board during the lottery portion of the first round (Ja Morant, Coby White, Darius Garland), there are a surfeit of stable upperclassmen in the second round that will be available to the Atlanta Hawks if they wanted to shore up their point guard rotation beyond potential Co-Rookie of the Year Trae Young.