This NBA lottery result might feel like a downer for the Hawks after so much positive came out of rebuild Year 2. They had the fifth-best lottery odds but ended up with the No. 8 overall pick. Soon after the pick was revealed their Hawks star point guard, Trae Young, used Twitter to sum up what might have been the general feeling for his team’s supporters:
I get it. The Hawks hoped to move all the way to the top of the draft, where Zion Williams is the prize (the Pelicans lucked out, winning the pick with just a six percent chance).