{"id":691134,"date":"2026-04-01T03:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:39:39","slug":"who-should-the-atlanta-hawks-take-if-they-land-the-no-1-pick-in-the-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691134\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Should the Atlanta Hawks Take If They Land the No. 1 Pick in the 2026 NBA Draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boozer is not the pick. Nothing against him as a prospect \u2014 he&#8217;s a skilled, high-IQ player who will have a long NBA career. The problem is fit. His skillset overlaps too much with Jalen Johnson, and the Hawks don&#8217;t need another playmaking four, particularly one who comes with questions on the defensive end. Even if Boozer grades out as the second-best prospect in the class, Atlanta should be selecting for upside and fit. He checks neither box here. Move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boozer is not the pick. Nothing against him as a prospect \u2014 he&#8217;s a skilled, high-IQ player who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-691134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116327375826964276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}