It has been a long, seven-week long venture to get to this point, but the Hawks have made a couple of hires — just not the one that has been most in focus.
On April 21, the Hawks dismissed general manager Landry Fields and promoted assistant general manager Onsi Saleh to the former’s same position. On the same day, they indicated that a search had begun to fill the empty president of basketball operations position.
Now today, Shams Charania of ESPN broke the news of two hires that will report directly to Saleh going forward:
The Atlanta Hawks and new General Manager Onsi Saleh are finalizing deals to hire New Orleans Pelicans GM Bryson Graham as the team's Senior VP of Basketball Operations and Philadelphia 76ers executive Peter Dinwiddie as Senior VP of Strategy and Analytics, sources tell ESPN.