

The Atlanta Hawks have fired general manager Landry Fields, the team announced Monday. Former assistant GM Onsi Saleh will take over the position.
The team also announced it will begin a search for a new president of basketball operations.
“Every offseason we evaluate how we operate and ways we can improve our organization,” Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler said in a statement.
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“As we enter this pivotal offseason, we have several complex decisions ahead of us, and we are committed to providing the human and financial resources needed to ensure that we navigate these decisions with a high level of precision and foresight. Adding an accomplished, senior-level leader to provide strategic direction and structure as well as partnering with Onsi and our talented front office is a top priority.”
The series of moves come after a disappointing season for the Hawks (40-42), who finished with the seventh-best record in the Eastern Conference but still missed the playoffs after a couple of losses in the Play-In Tournament.
Fields took over as GM of the Hawks just before the 2020-21 season, one of the franchise’s most successful in recent history. It ended with an unexpected run to the conference finals. But Atlanta has not replicated that success since. The team treaded around .500 for each of the following couple of seasons, losing in the first round of the playoffs during both of those years, before posting losing records and missing the last two playoffs altogether.
Saleh joined the organization after last season, coming from the Golden State Warriors, where he was the VP of basketball strategy. His department in Golden State was responsible for managing the team’s salary cap. Saleh began in that same vertical with the San Antonio Spurs, where he was an intern and worked his way up to a full-time gig.
The Hawks made significant moves under Fields, most notably trading a haul of draft picks for All-Star point guard Dejounte Murray, then trading Murray a couple of years later for a couple of late first-rounders and Dyson Daniels, who is now a finalist for both Defensive Player of the Year and Most Improved Player. He also drafted Zaccharie Risacher with the No. 1 pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.
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