After two weeks of radio silence from the Atlanta Hawks, general manager Travis Schlenk and his staff have sprung to life, (almost) completing two trades and finally agreeing to their first signing of the summer in the span of about a week. First came the Jeremy Lin acquisition from Brooklyn, then the blockbuster Carmelo Anthony-Dennis Schröder swap, and now, Atlanta is completing the remainder of their roster, starting with center Alex Len, who agreed terms on a two-year pact worth $8.5 million on Saturday.
Len, who will likely come off the bench behind John Collins and Dewayne Dedmon, is unlike the majority of his big man counterparts on the Hawks in that he is a pure center – in five years in Phoenix, he took just 22 three-pointers and was firmly rooted in the paint.