As you probably inferred from the title, we’re halfway through the NBA season. As you may have read yesterday, courtesy of the illustrious Rohan Nadkarni, we’re handing out mid-season grades. Yesterday, we ran through the West. Today, the East. Tomorrow, the world. These grades are based on...basically nothing but my own opinion, relative to expectations.
Atlanta Hawks: D
The slight upgrade from abject failure represents Trae Young’s continued evolution into one of the NBA’s most exciting guards, which should no longer be in question. Not much else has gone remotely according to plan. Atlanta was sold as a trendy sleeper to push for a low playoff seed in the East.