The goal for Trae Young’s rebuilding Hawks is to make the playoffs and take a quantum leap forward.
Basically, they want to emulate the Nets.
After making the playoffs this past season for the first time since 2015, the Nets landed Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan to become arguably the single biggest winners in NBA free agency this summer. It was a breakthrough that didn’t go unnoticed by Young.
“That team did an unbelievable job last season of getting in the playoffs,” Young said Wednesday at the NBPA/Five-Star Camp at Basketball City in Lower Manhattan.