{"id":781431,"date":"2026-07-08T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/781431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:42:19","slug":"hawks-hire-ex-nba-writer-podcaster-in-front-office-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/781431\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks hire ex-NBA writer, podcaster in front-office role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-11\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Wed, July 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_field_level_media_articles_659\/b4d31a7b4e17ae27d1a971f4d66a9237.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nov 7, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; A general view of State Farm Arena before a game between the Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>Former NBA journalist Tim Bontemps is joining the front office of the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old was named strategic adviser to Hawks president of basketball operations Onsi Saleh. Saleh was promoted in May from his position of general manager.<\/p>\n<p>Bontemps, co-host of &#8220;The Hoop Collective&#8221; podcast, has worked for ESPN, The Washington Post and New York Post covering the NBA since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the second hoops journalist to cross over to an NBA front office.<\/p>\n<p>Another former ESPN writer, 36-year-old Mike Schmitz, was named general manager of the Dallas Mavericks under new team president Masai Ujiri. Schmitz, who played basketball at Arizona, describes himself as a self-taught scout who previously worked for Draft Express, Yahoo and as assistant general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wed, July 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC Nov 7, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; A general view of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,149,130,3225,677,87424,6,1920,4193],"class_list":["post-781431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-atlantahawks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-espn","tag-front-office","tag-hawks","tag-mike-schmitz","tag-nba","tag-new-york-post","tag-onsi-saleh"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116885123778997771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781431","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=781431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}