The 2019-20 Atlanta Hawks weren’t a flawless bunch. In fact, the Hawks landed near the bottom of the NBA standings, to the point where the team was not invited to continue play as part of the league’s 22-team restart in Orlando. Still, the future is unquestionably bright for the organization, and a significant part of that optimism stems from the youthful talent already on the roster.
To that end, Sam Vecenie of The Athletic put together a league-wide ranking of the best young players on a team-by-team basis, with a simple prompt “to approximate something along the lines of ‘long term, which young players on which teams should make their fan bases most happy to have around?