NBA Insider provides update on Trae Young’s future after Atlanta wins draft lottery

This was going to be a big offseason for the Atlanta Hawks, but their plans were changed yesterday when they improbably secured the No. 1 overall pick.

Atlanta had a 3% chance of winning the NBA Draft Lottery yesterday, but they finally found some luck in the lottery and have a big opportunity in front of them with the No. 1 pick.

What Atlanta does with the No. 1 overall pick is going to be a huge talking point, but what they do with the backcourt of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray is going to remain the biggest talking point when talking of the Hawks season. NBA insider Shams Charania spoke about Young and the Hawks’ future on Fanuel TV’s Run it Back today:

“For the No. 1 pick, their decision will be: do you go big with a guy like Alex Sarr or do you go more on the guard front, there are a few options there as well. The elephant in the play of Of course this will be the future of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray Trae Young has said publicly and privately that he wants to win and that he is going to enter the back half, closer to the 10th year of his career .he’s just started. It’s crazy, you think Trae Young is so young, but he’s at a stage where he wants to win.

You see players like Tyrese Haliburton, De’Aaron Fox, Luka Doncic, continually competing and making more and more names for themselves, winning more season games, and if Trae Young doesn’t see or feel like whether the Hawks are building a winner or a team that really has a chance in the Eastern Conference, you see teams like New York, you see teams like Indiana make it to the second round, all the way to the conference finals, Trae Young surely feels like the Hawks should be in this position.

They’re going to have real conversations if he believes that they’re not trying to build a real winner around him and that dialogue and those discussions will happen this week at the combine, next week and the weeks to come leading to the NBA. Draft. Clearly, this pairing between Trae Young and Dejounte Murray didn’t work out. They already considered moving Dejounte Murray and kept him until the trade deadline. Which goaltender do they end up going this route and I think that will be the big question for the Hawks heading into the draft. »

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I think it would be a mistake for the Hawks to trade Young (unless he asks for one), but it seems at least possible that it could happen. I think the route the Hawks should take would be to trade Murray and others and surround Young with more defense and size, which landing the No. 1 pick allows you to do by taking Alex Sarr. Atlanta could offer Murray and another player for a guy like Brandon Ingram, allowing Young to have several athletic wings around him.

During his exit interview following the loss to the Chicago Bulls in the play-in tournament, Young reiterated that he wants to stay in Atlanta and wants to win championships:

“Every year the teams are different, obviously I want to be here, but I want to win. I want to be here and I want to win championships here and do this, but I want to win, I mean, it’s pretty much close to that.” This is all for me, it’s my motto and it’s been me from the beginning.”

When asked if he thought he could win with the Hawks or if it was with someone else, this was Young’s response:

“I believe it can be here, we just have to make it happen.”

Young also explained that he doesn’t need to be the best player in Atlanta and that people have this misconception about him:

“People don’t understand that it doesn’t bother me… people might think I have to be the best player on a team, I’m not like that and I never have been”

The Hawks have a chance to set their team up for a big run after winning the lottery yesterday. The front office will have a lot of decisions to make regarding Young, Murray and what to do with the No. 1 pick and they need to make sure they get it right.