Hawks earn B on midseason report card

The Atlanta Hawks earned a B on Bleacher Report’s Midseason Report Card released Wednesday.

While the Hawks have the NBA's worst record, Bleacher Report's Grant Hughes wrote the goals of new general manager Travis Schlenk in the team's rebuilding process was not to have a winning record, but to try to get younger and create financial flexibility in regard to the salary cap.

“Atlanta has seen intermittent flashes of starter-quality play from rookie John Collins, whose energy and bounce have at least added some excitement to an otherwise unexciting season,” Hughes wrote. “Taurean Prince has shot it much better in his second year, and the Hawks are nicely positioned to sell off veterans—Dewayne Dedmon, Ersan Ilyasova and Kent Bazemore, to name three—for more future assets.