{"id":252033,"date":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252033\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:24:12","slug":"hawks-exercise-option-for-2024-no-1-pick-zaccharie-risacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/252033\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks exercise option for 2024 No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761870252_14_youngmisuk_ohm.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ohm YoungmisukOct 30, 2025, 06:42 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate of Michigan State University.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NotoriousOHM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow him on Twitter \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"15096a54-f015-c987-5ec8-55afedf6272f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> exercised the third-year contract option for forward <a data-player-guid=\"d9a14bbd-d184-3703-86ba-f0c17b732ab4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5211175\/zaccharie-risacher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zaccharie Risacher<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Risacher, the No. 1 pick in the 2024 draft, averaged 12.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 35.5% shooting from behind the arc as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>This season, Risacher suffered an ankle injury during the opener and missed two consecutive games. He returned to play in the Hawks&#8217; loss at Chicago on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohm YoungmisukOct 30, 2025, 06:42 PM ET CloseOhm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-252033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}