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NBA rumors: Insider dumps cold water on Hawks bringing Jaylen Brown home with Celtics trade
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The Atlanta Hawks have been busy so far this offseason , and they just added three rookies to their team in the NBA Draft. There's no doubt that they're trying to compete while also developing the young talent they have, and it should help them sustain a bright present and future.
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With the Boston Celtics dangling Jaylen Brown in trade rumors, many are wondering what teams could have some interest, and the Hawks seem to always get brought up, one because he's actually from Atlanta. Unfortunately, the idea may just be that and nothing more, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype.
"While Atlanta has kept tabs on Brown, a Georgia native, such an acquisition would be an all-in move for the Hawks, which would go against their current trajectory after adding three players in the draft, including Kingston Flemings, whom they hope is their point guard of the future, while building around 24-year-old All-Star forward Jalen Johnson ," Scotto wrote.
This should be no surprise, especially with how many times general manager Onsi Saleh has said that the Hawks are not skipping steps in trying to build a team that's going to compete for years to come. Trading for Brown would go against what Saleh has said.
"We're not a single player away from being what we want to be. When I came here, the biggest thing was, how do we become sustainable? We don't want to be this team that's like we make one run at it and then it's back to square one," Saleh said in end-of-season interviews. "We gotta be smart about how we build this team, and the guys that we have now, they're just scratching the surface, too."
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Things can always change, but as of now, the Hawks are going to build around the young core they have.
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