There are 30 NBA teams, and Trae Young had to end up on one of the two named for a bird.
The former OU and Norman North guard — now a rookie with the Atlanta Hawks — has a disdain for birds that took on a life of its own last season, but he's overcoming his ornithophobia one flap at a time.
“The mascot has came through the facility once or twice,” Young said Thursday before the March of Dimes Sports Headliner Banquet. “So I've had to see that and I'm starting to warm up to the Hawks mascot, for sure.