Asa Newell

Newell is exactly the modern energy four Atlanta likes to develop — a bouncy, motor-driven Georgia product the Hawks landed at No. 23 in 2025. His rookie season was a patience play: 44 appearances at 5.2 points on a tidy 53.8 percent from the field, with regular trips to the G League's College Park Skyhawks, where he got the on-ball reps and shot volume the NBA rotation could not spare. That efficiency number is the tell — Newell scores inside the offense rather than forcing it, finishing lobs, sealing on the roll, cleaning the glass. The developmental swing is his shooting; the flashes from three in the G League hint at a stretch element that would unlock the whole profile. For a young piece in a crowded frontcourt, he did the quiet things that earn a bigger role.