NBA legend blasts Hawks over Trae Young trade, labels them a 'mid' franchise

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• Just those two guys. Paul Pierce destroys Hawks for trading Trae YoungOverall, Pierce wasn’t impressed with the team’s decision to trade Young or with the return they got for the four-time All-Star.“I’m never shocked at what the Atlanta Hawks do, as a mid franchise, as a franchise who is not respected as an organization because of ownership, they never do anything that surprises me,” Pierce said during a recent appearance on the No Fouls Given show. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement"So for them to give up a four-time All-Star, a guy who is one of the elite point guards in the league who has got them to the Eastern Conference [Finals], and not even get a draft pick out of it?
• That tells me you just wanted him out of your city, out of your state.”Pierce continued his rant by making a bold prediction about Atlanta’s future as an organization.“Organizations like this will never be elite.
• Organizations like this will never win a championship in my lifetime,” Pierce said.
• “I guarantee that.
• If they do, I will crawl from L. A.