BREAKING NEWS: Hawks GM Landry Fields braces for more tough decisions after trading Dejounte Murray to Pelicans

ATLANTA (AP) — Regardless of the fact that it was so hard to infer that exchanging Dejounte Murray was essential, Atlanta Hawks of prey senior supervisor Landry Fields realizes he faces more difficulties this offseason.

The NBA draft brought Atlanta two players, including No. 1 by and large pick Zaccharie Risacher. Saturday’s exchange with the New Orleans Pelicans added four veterans to the list, in addition to two future first-round draft picks, for Murray.

That leaves the Birds of prey with an overloaded program and the likelihood that more veterans could leave Atlanta.

Fields said Wednesday that the choice to exchange Murray, who joined Trae Youthful in Atlanta’s high-scoring backcourt the last two seasons, followed our desired decision “to reshape a few things.”

“It was hard choices, testing,” Fields said. “We knew that where we eventually need to be planned to require a few testing choices. … So from this point until the beginning of the time, we’ll have a few additional difficult choices to make.”

The Hawks of prey have not won a season finisher series since progressing to the 2021 Eastern Gathering finals and they completed tenth in the Eastern Meeting at 36-46 this season.

The most vital phase in reshaping the list was Fields exchanging AJ Griffin to Houston and procuring the privileges to watch/forward Nikola Djurisic of Serbia in the draft.

The 6-foot-9 Risacher, a forward from France, joins Young and forward Jalen Johnson as the foundation for the rebuild. Risacher has made a strong first impression in workouts this week for the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

“He shoots the ball like crazy,” Djurisic said of Risacher. “He can hit a few wild shots. He can obstruct a few shots.”

Forward E.J. Liddell, a 2022 second-round draft pick who was essential for the bundle of veterans obtained from the Pelicans, said Risacher “has a ton of potential to be truly perfect. He’s an extreme shot-creator. He’s tall. It will be truly difficult to challenge his shots. Furthermore, he can deal with the ball for a person so tall.”

Liddell, who additionally will play in the Birds of prey’s Mid year Association group, watch Dyson Daniels, forward/focus Larry Nance Jr. what’s more, focus Cody Zeller were obtained in Saturday’s exchange. Daniels was a 2022 first-round pick.

The exchange made an overflow of choices at focus. There has been hypothesis the Falcons could exchange Clint Capela, who has imparted opportunity to Onyeka Okongwu. Fields said he was attempting to agree with focus Bruno Fernando to push back Wednesday’s cutoff time to ensure Fernando’s $2.72 million compensation for next season.

Capela, 30, is expected to procure more than $22 million one year from now before perhaps turning into a free specialist.

“I actually place a ton of significant worth in Clint, so ought to be fine,” Fields said.

Daniels, who is supposed to major areas of strength for give, could join Bogdan Bogdanovic, Post Mathews, Seth Lundy and others in the shooting monitor spot that had been monitored by Murray. Lundy was endorsed to another two-way agreement on Tuesday.

Risacher could promptly push De’Andre Tracker at little forward. Fields said he trusts Risacher utilizes the Mid year Association experience to “get increasingly coordinated, familiar with really playing a recent fad of ball.”

Risacher, 19, said he was “very energized” to start the change from European ball to the NBA.

“There’s so many distinction between those two,” Risacher said. “Most importantly, obviously, it’s greater. Furthermore, simply the manner in which we play here is somewhat unique. What’s more, that is, you know, that is great. … It’s truly intriguing for me to find and have the option to play here with that multitude of extraordinary players.”