{"id":697762,"date":"2026-04-04T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:23:14","slug":"can-the-atlanta-hawks-make-a-deep-run-in-the-2026-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697762\/","title":{"rendered":"Can The Atlanta Hawks Make A Deep Run In The 2026 Playoffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Over the past month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/atlanta_hawks\/73\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> have looked like one of the best teams in the NBA, and all the numbers are backing up that statement. But the real question for them is whether this type of play is sustainable in the playoffs. As everyone knows, the playoffs are a whole different game and level of basketball. The game slows down, defenses are sharper, and you\u2019re facing the best of the best in the league. <\/p>\n<p> The Hawks After The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/trae_young\/585746\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Young<\/a> Trade <\/p>\n<p>Many would think that after trading your franchise player, you would turn into a team that is just looking towards the NBA draft lottery and building for the future, but that wasn\u2019t the case for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401810962\/hawks-magic\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta<\/a>. Considering what Atlanta got back from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stadiumrant.com\/the-trae-young-trade-to-the-wizards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Young trade<\/a> , many would say they lost the trade, as all they received from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/washington_wizards\/76\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> was Corey Kispert and CJ McCollum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the past month, the Atlanta Hawks have looked like one of the best teams in the NBA,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697763,"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-697762","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\/116346657578608929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697762","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=697762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}