Hawks Fire General Manager Landry Fields In Front-Office Shakeup

April 21, 2025

It’s a bad time to be running teams, it seems, and Atlanta Hawks general manager Landry Fields is the latest to learn that hard NBA lesson.

Fields has been fired after three years on the job, the team announced Monday.

The Hawks’ season ended on Friday, when they lost a home play-in tournament game to the Miami Heat. They finished 40-42 and in eighth place in the Eastern Conference standings (before the play-in tourney).

“The Hawks also say they have hired Sportsology to begin the search for a new president of basketball operations while promoting Onsi Saleh to GM,” wrote Marc Stein of The Stein Line.

Fields, a former NBA guard, was hired as assistant GM with the Hawks in 2020, before landing the GM job in 2022. His biog trade of the season was sending forward De’Andre Hunter to the Cleveland Cavaliers for forward Georges Niang and guard Caris LeVert — who is entering free agency this summer.

Without Fields, it remains to be seen what will become of coach Quin Snyder and team star Trae Young, generally at the center of NBA trade rumors. That is sure to be the case again.

Young indicated during the team’s exit interviews that he hoped to remain in Atlanta.

“Yeah, of course,” he said. “We’re one of the 30 NBA teams and I feel like you can win here. I’ve won before here — I haven’t won a championship, but I’ve achieved a lot of things here and I know what it takes. I definitely feel like I can win.”