– Reported by Chris Kirschner, Sam Amick and David Aldridge
Seven months after the pandemic brought the Atlanta Hawks season to an unwanted end, it was time for a Southern California reunion to bring them back together.
Coach Lloyd Pierce and all the Hawks returnees would meet for the team’s connection time, with all sorts of planned activities that he hoped chemistry would help in a season that everyone knew would be under pressure. There was high basketball against other NBA players, a boxing class in which they were divided against each other, and group tables where topics included, among other things, the upcoming election.
But the real headliner event took place when Pierce and Trae Young met in private to discuss the future of the third year together.