For the second straight season, the Atlanta Hawks machinations in the upper tier of the NBA Draft were widely reviled by NBA draft Twitter and draft experts across various sites and outlets.
Why? Well, the team gave up a huge amount in order to select De’Andre Hunter out of Virginia at #4 overall – giving up multiple future picks and taking on the dead salary of Solomon Hill to boot.
One thing you can’t say about General Manager Travis Schlenk is that he’s shy about making moves to “get his guy” on draft night just as he did in 2018 by trading away a player that was (and is) widely regarded as a generational talent in Luka Doncic.