{"id":73426,"date":"2024-04-16T01:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=73426"},"modified":"2024-04-16T01:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T05:46:52","slug":"hawks-trae-young-breaks-franchise-assists-record-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/16\/hawks-trae-young-breaks-franchise-assists-record-regular-season-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks General Breaks Franchise Record in Regular Season Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At just 25 years old, Atlanta Hawks point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Young<\/a> has become the team\u2019s all-time assists leader.<\/p>\n<p>Amassing 3,868 assists in 407 games, Young passed former NBA guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/riverdo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doc Rivers<\/a> in career assists in the Hawks\u2019 regular season finale against. Poetically, Young\u2019s record-breaking assist went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murrade01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dejounte Murray<\/a>. While the Hawks believe that they\u2019re in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/09\/will-hawks-trade-trae-young-or-dejounte-murray\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">an either-or scenario<\/a> with Young and Murray, the two have <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/09\/hawks-trae-young-dejounte-murray-brings-off-court-relationship-to-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">consistently touted their friendship<\/a> off the court. Indeed, Young and Murray coordinated the play that led to the former\u2019s record from the scorer\u2019s table.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DejounteMurray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DejounteMurray<\/a> knocked down the shot to secure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTraeYoung?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheTraeYoung<\/a>&#8216;s record-breaking assist, the two <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATLHawks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ATLHawks<\/a> guards mapped out their strategy \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobRathbunTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BobRathbunTV<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DWilkins21?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DWilkins21<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xBfB8K7pGz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xBfB8K7pGz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itFiG5KClK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/itFiG5KClK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports South (@BallySportsSO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallySportsSO\/status\/1779647097009996020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the game, Young spoke about being the Hawks\u2019 new assists leader.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some really good teammates over the years to be able to break this type of record so quick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Trae Young, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobRathbunTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BobRathbunTV<\/a>, on setting the franchise assist mark <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pY4XKQtpcN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pY4XKQtpcN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports: Hawks (@HawksOnBally) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawksOnBally\/status\/1779596993020440877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a blessing to be a part of it,&#8221; Young says. &#8220;Assists is not just me. I\u2019ve had some really good teammates over the years to be able to break this type of record so quick. So, I\u2019ve got a lot of love for my teammates who I\u2019ve given an assist to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can\u2019t mention \u201cAssist\u201d without 11 !<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd\ud83c\udfc0\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EC5sqZjKZD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/EC5sqZjKZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTraeYoung\/status\/1779632112833867921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 2023-24 regular season, Young averaged a career-high 10.8 assists per game. Had injuries not limited him to 54 games this season, Young may have broken the record by Feb. 29.<\/p>\n<h3>Trae Young<\/h3>\n<p>Young was selected by the Dallas Mavericks with the fifth overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. Traded to Hawks in exchange for No. 3 pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/doncilu01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luka Doncic<\/a> on draft night. Originally compared to Golden State Warriors guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curryst01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Curry<\/a> due to his size and shooting range, Young has shown early on that his best skill is playmaking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trae Young&#8217;s assists per game to break the Hawks franchise record in six seasons:<\/p>\n<p>\u2744\ufe0f 2018-19: 8.1<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f 2019-20: 9.3<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f 2020-21: 9.4<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f 2021-22: 9.7<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f 2022-23: 10.2<br \/>\n\u2744\ufe0f 2023-24: 10.8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xBfB8K7pGz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xBfB8K7pGz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pavfu3mkdD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Pavfu3mkdD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bally Sports South (@BallySportsSO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BallySportsSO\/status\/1779910822350757979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a rookie, Young took 6.0 three-point attempts per game but shot just 32.4 percent from 3. However, he averaged 8.1 assists per game, the fourth-highest mark in the league. A creative floor general with upper-level court vision, Young is on pace to be top-25 in career assists by the time he\u2019s 31.<\/p>\n<h3>Doc Rivers<\/h3>\n<p>A 13-year veteran that played in Atlanta his first eight seasons, Rivers recorded 3,866 career assists in 568 games.<\/p>\n<p>Now a veteran head coach, Rivers puts his basketball IQ to use on the sidelines instead of in-between the lines. The 62-year-old has won 1,114 regular season games, the eighth most in NBA history. Leading the Boston Celtics to a championship in 2008, Rivers has 111 playoff wins, the fourth-most in NBA history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At just 25 years old, Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young has become the team\u2019s all-time assists leader. Amassing 3,868 assists in 407 games, Young passed former NBA guard Doc Rivers in career assists in the Hawks\u2019 regular season finale against. Poetically, Young\u2019s record-breaking assist went to Dejounte Murray. While the Hawks believe that they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":73547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1608,62,3],"tags":[190,1349],"class_list":["post-73426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-doc-rivers","tag-trae-young"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}