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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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The Atlanta Hawks have made major additions to their rotation and are looking to compete in a diminished Eastern Conference. Zena Keita and Dave DuFour are joined by Lauren Williams from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to discuss the Hawks moves, the inside story on their draft day trade with the Pelicans, and expectations for next season.
Host: Zena Keita
With: Dave DuFour & Lauren Williams
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:43.2 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for July 10th, 2025. |
| 0:45.4 | Dave is sweating in Vegas. |
| 0:51.6 | And we welcome in Lauren Williams from the Atlanta Journal Constitution to talk the Atlanta Hawks. |
| 0:59.5 | What's up, guys, and welcome to the show, Lauren Williams. We've missed you. |
| 1:03.8 | Thank you. I've missed you guys, too. What a pleasure to be here, as always. At the finals, luckily. Yeah. We haven't had her on the show in a while. That's right. |
| 1:08.4 | And we definitely needed to have you on, Lauren, because a lot has been going on. The Hawks have been extremely active this offseason. They've made some trades. They've made some free agent moves. And I mean, Dave is, Dave, where do you put them for next year? I'm very high on the Hawks. I think that they have a good shot at making the conference finals. I mean, a lot of it has to do with the East. East is weak. East is going to be down, especially next year. But I like the moves that they made. And I think this was already a pretty good team that dealt with some injury, you know, some poor injury luck last season. I think they would have performed um you know we'll see and a lot of this is just i believe tray young can get hot |
| 1:47.7 | in the playoffs you know i yeah i buy that guy as a playoff performer yeah he's capable of being |
| 1:53.9 | a villain anyone's story for sure but lauren let's look at some of these trades i mean are these |
| 1:59.9 | moves christopter sing us of course course, gets traded to Atlanta from Boston. |
| 2:04.3 | They acquire Nikiel Alexander Walker. |
| 2:07.4 | They add in a seigneul in the draft. |
| 2:10.4 | I mean, there's a lot of movement here, a lot of options in terms of the best moves. |
| 2:15.2 | But I want to know your expert opinion. Which one did you |
| 2:18.5 | like the most for retooling the Hawks? Honestly, I think my favorite one is probably, you know, |
| 2:25.3 | them doing the sign and trade to get Nikiel Alexander Walker. You add a guy who I think has a |
| 2:31.7 | similar trajectory to what, you know, Dyson Daniels had last year. |
| 2:35.7 | I'm going to put Nikiel Alexander Walker in, you know, |
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