Hawks seeking new direction and new PBO to lead them

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League sources say that Hawks owner Tony Ressler has pursued former Warriors executive Bob Myers for the post but without success … like his Suns counterpart Mat Ishbia. – via marcstein.substack.com

Back to the Hawks: League sources say Ressler, seemingly inspired by Myers’ success in Golden State and likewise by what Leon Rose and Rob Pelinka are doing with the Knicks and Lakers, has shown a significant interest in pursuing established agents to take over Atlanta’s front office and team up with cap strategist Onsi Saleh, whom the Hawks recently promoted to general manager.

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CAA Basketball Co-Head Austin Brown has emerged as a frontrunner for the Atlanta Hawks’ president of basketball operations role, league sources tell me.

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Just yesterday, Marc Stein and Jake L. Fischer posted an update to Stein’s substack, the Stein Line, about the continued search for a President of Basketball Operations, as well as the types of resumes the Hawks would like to fill out the front office.

League sources say that Hawks owner Tony Ressler has pursued former Warriors executive Bob Myers for the post but without success ... like his Suns counterpart Mat Ishbia.

Myers, 50, has made it clear to interested teams that he plans to be selective in the extreme when it comes to deciding whether to return to front officing after winning four championships with the Warriors. Myers, remember, holds a lucrative consulting gig with the NFL’s Washington Commanders in addition to his TV work with ESPN and, in those roles, can live in Los Angeles where his family wants to be.

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Back to the Hawks: League sources say Ressler, seemingly inspired by Myers’ success in Golden State and likewise by what Leon Rose and Rob Pelinka are doing with the Knicks and Lakers, has shown a significant interest in pursuing established agents to take over Atlanta’s front office and team up with cap strategist Onsi Saleh, whom the Hawks recently promoted to general manager.

Danny Ferry has formally interviewed for Atlanta’s president of basketball operations vacancy, league sources tell The Stein Line.

Ferry’s re-emergence as a candidate for the lead front office post in Atlanta comes a decade after his removal from the same post. In June 2014, Ferry read aloud from a report filed by an unidentified scout on a team conference call that included racially insensitive comments about former NBA All-Star Luol Deng and stepped down a year later.

Ferry returned to the NBA as a special advisor in New Orleans entering the 2016-17 season and finished the 2018-19 season as the Pelicans’ interim GM after the dismissal of Dell Demps. He has been with San Antonio since December 2020 in a consultant role in his third front office stint with the Spurs.

Calvin Booth and Monte McNair, dismissed from their GM roles last month by Denver and Sacramento, respectively, are also among the interviewees to date for the Hawks’ job. The Stein Line reported earlier this week that Philadelphia’s Elton Brand has removed himself from consideration after likewise landing an interview.

Atlanta and Denver are the league’s two teams with a current opening for a lead decision-maker.

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Hawks would be his third team.

Regular season record: 690-504

Playoffs: 52-59

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Hawks would be his third team.

Regular season record: 690-504

Playoffs: 52-59

Honestly, I think Masai is overrated. He took a huge gamble and got lucky one time...everything in Toronto before and since that Kawhi trade has been underwhelming.

But there are clear links between Masai and Giannis.

ESPN’s Shams Charania reported that Antetokounmpo is open to leaving Milwaukee, now that the Bucks have reached a painful, inescapable cul-de-sac. Time to move on.

So of course the Toronto Raptors should chase him, right? After all, Giannis was always team president Masai Ujiri’s favourite target in the star-hunting realm for years; the two men have a relationship that stretches back over a decade, and there is trust there. And while everyone is talking about what the Bucks could get for Antetokounmpo, if he leaves, Antetokounmpo will decide where he wants to go.

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This would be such a Hawksian thing

They announced to the world on April 21 that they are searching for a president of basketball operations to take over the front office, but sources briefed on the situation have suggested that Atlanta could opt for making no additional changes to its management structure after promoting cap strategist Onsi Saleh to general manager.

 

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Hawks chose to go with option C.

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