Hawks Fire GM Fields After Three Seasons

The Atlanta Hawks have fired General Manager Landry Fields, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. 

Fields came to the Hawks organization in October of 2020 as assistant general manager and was named the team’s General Manager on June 13, 2022. 

The Hawks went 117-129 combined over the last three seasons, regressing from their 41-41 mark in 2022-23 where they made the postseason and lost in the opening round to the Boston Celtics. In 2023-24, the team finished 36-46, and this past season finished 40-42. Last week, they lost to both the Orlando Magic and Miami Heat in play-in tournament games.

In 2022-23, the Hawks fired head coach Nate McMillan after a 29-30 start to the season, and hired Quin Snyder, who went 10-11 to finish that season. 

Clint Capela, Caris LeVert, and Larry Nance Jr. are the key free agents for the Hawks entering the 2025 offseason. Capela, 30, is one of the league’s best rebounding centers but had not played since March 10 due to a hand injury. Nance, 32, an athletic wing player, had not played since February 10 due to knee surgery. LeVert, 30, is a capable bench scorer. Acquired by the Hawks at the trade deadline in the deal that sent De’Andre Hunter to Cleveland, LeVert averaged 12.1 points on 46.7% shooting overall, with averages of 14.9 points on 48.2% shooting in 26 games with the Hawks. 

Star Trae Young, 26, averaged 24.2 points and an NBA-best 11.6 points per game in 2024-25. It might be time for the team to get move on from him though, as they cannot seem to advance into the deeper rounds (though the Hawks did make the 2021 Eastern Conference Finals after an improbable run where Young led them over the New York Knicks) with Young as their centerpiece.

In drafting Zaccharie Risacher, the team got their future building block, and it may be time for the team to build around Risacher, Jalen Johnson (a 23-year-old forward who averaged 18.9 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 5.0 assists on 50% shooting before going down with a season-ending labrum tear after just 36 games) and defensive dynamo Dyson Daniels, who came to Atlanta via the Dejounte Murray trade and proceeded to lead the NBA in steals with 3.0 per game.      

Whoever will be replacing Fields will have some decisions to make.