John Collins has been tremendous in the early portion of his first NBA season and that isn’t up for much debate. There are question marks for the former Wake Forest star in typical fashion of a first-year player but, on the whole, the Atlanta Hawks seem to have nailed the No. 19 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft.
However, things were taken to a new level on Friday, as an ESPN “panel of experts” voted on a bevy of awards with the benefit of one month’s worth of data. While the Hawks received some attention in the sub-optimal category of “Which team will finish with the worst record?