The Atlanta Hawks spend this offseason building a team to surround Trae Young. They did that pretty dang well too, and will enter the 2025-26 season with real wind at their backs and a chance to win a weakened Eastern Conference. But they're also playing a dangerous game by neglecting to extend Trae Young this summer, instead electing to play out 2025-26 and reassess next offseason.
Jake Fischer of The Stein Line reported earlier this month that a Young contract extension... may never have even been on the table this summer.
Sources say Young’s side has actually been resigned for some time to the prospect of seeing out the final guaranteed year on his current contract rather than securing an extension, like his current contract, worth in excess of $200 million.