The Hawks are promoting Landry Fields to general manager, beginning next month, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski tweets.
Fields, who has been an assistant GM with the franchise, will continue to work under president of basketball operations Travis Schlenk.
Just 33 years old, Fields began his front office career with the Spurs. He joined the Hawks as an assistant GM in 2020.
Hawks owner Tony Ressler has expressed high confidence in his current front office personnel and Fields’ promotion reflects that. There were rumors early in the season that other teams were trying to lure away Fields but that he was likely to be promoted by the Hawks.
Fields started out as a scout with San Antonio in 2016 and eventually worked his way up to becoming the GM of the G League’s Austin Spurs. He also spent five seasons in the NBA, playing for both the Knicks and Raptors. In 255 games, he averaged 6.8 PPG and 4.3 RPG.
I remember this dude being the lowest rated player in one of the 2K games he was in lol
Lucky
33? He looks early 50s
You may be looking at Schlenk. One way to tell: Guess at the promoted guy’s race.
I been dreading the day he left to be the gm somewhere else. Extremely glad he’ll be here & in a bigger role going forward
That the same Landry that played for the knicks and raptors? Totally sucked as a player lol