{"id":698890,"date":"2026-04-05T02:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698890\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:14:36","slug":"hawks-sign-6-foot-10-1st-round-pick-to-contract-after-center-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698890\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks sign 6-foot-10 1st-round pick to contract after center injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> are hot.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve surged beyond the play-in spots and into a secure playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, though, they ran into an injury that will hurt their cause. The center Jock Landale is out.<\/p>\n<p>They needed a replacement, and they found one in free agency.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported Saturday that the Hawks have signed Tony Bradley to a contract.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Atlanta Hawks are signing veteran center Tony Bradley to a deal for the remainder of the season, adding frontcourt depth in wake of an injury to Jock Landale, sources tell ESPN. Atlanta has had a hot second half, surging to No. 5 in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2040561445637673134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\/news\/mavericks-cooper-flagg-makes-unprecedented-basketball-history-nba-points-record\/de9af0996703c72bec288813\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper Flagg sets new NBA teenager scoring record<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bradley is 6-foot-10, a 28 year old originally from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He played college basketball at North Carolina, and he was the No. 28 overall pick (first round) in the 2017 NBA Draft. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a> took him but immediately traded his draft rights to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley has averaged 4.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in his NBA career while shooting 62.1% from the floor.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Bradley had played in 38 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> and averaged 4.0 points and 2.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>He won&#8217;t get tons of minutes for Atlanta, but Bradley is a logical pickup that the Hawks are hoping will work out.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/inside-bronny-james-nightmare-point-guard-play-lakers-historic-loss-okc-thunder\/7a74f6fdf1872b21f9e738b5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inside Bronny James&#8217; nightmare point guard play for Lakers vs. Thunder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Hawks are hot. They&#8217;ve surged beyond the play-in spots and into a secure playoff spot in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698891,"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-698890","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\/116349689194077001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698890","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=698890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}