Jalen Johnson is back on the court. No other team is winning bigger than that.
No team has benefited more from the early stages of the 2025 NBA preseason than the Atlanta Hawks—and it's fair to assume no team will moving forward. For the first time since Jan. 23, star player Jalen Johnson took the court for Atlanta in a 2025-26 preseason debut that put all of the pieces in place.
Atlanta still has questions to answer and chemistry to develop, but simply getting Johnson back on the court has been the biggest win imaginable.