With an autumn calendar featuring the Braves in the playoffs and Georgia ranked No. 3 nationally and Atlanta United readying to defend a title and the Falcons doing whatever it is the Falcons do, an NBA preseason might have gone unnoticed. The Hawks have rebuilt so fast and so well they’ve forced us to pay attention.
Theirs is the NBA’s best collection of young talent. That said, they’re so young that coach Lloyd Pierce, speaking at a Friday media convocation, differentiated before “the younger young guys” on his roster, as opposed to the older young guys. (Like Jabari Parker, the second player drafted in 2014 and a summer import.