The Hawks received a very big stroke of good fortune this past Sunday at the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery.
Carrying slim lottery odds for their sole pick in the upcoming draft, the ping-pong combinations landed on one of the 30 (out of a possible 1000) combinations able to launch Atlanta from their 10th-best odds up to the very top.
Almost immediately, speculation began over whether the Hawks would even use that pick at all began from national insiders. Lucky talisman and general manager Landry Fields himself did his best to pump the brakes on transaction talk immediately upon learning the pick’s fate, saying:
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