{"id":751276,"date":"2026-07-08T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751276\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:41:24","slug":"former-epsn-nba-writer-tim-bontemps-joins-atlanta-hawks-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751276\/","title":{"rendered":"Former EPSN NBA writer Tim Bontemps joins Atlanta Hawks front office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Former ESPN senior NBA writer Tim Bontemps has been \u201chired for a front office role\u201d with the Hawks, according to MacMahon &amp; Windhorst of ESPN.com. Bontemps will be a \u201cstrategic adviser for the Hawks\u201d and report to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/27\/hawks-extend-gm-saleh-promote-him-to-president-of-basketball-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/27\/hawks-extend-gm-saleh-promote-him-to-president-of-basketball-ops\/\">President of Basketball Operations Onsi Saleh<\/a>. Bontemps has covered the NBA since 2012, including the last eight seasons for ESPN. In recent years, Bontemps\u2019 coverage at ESPN \u201cfocused on team strategy, player movement and league trends.\u201d In addition to contributing to ESPN\u2019s digital and television coverage, Bontemps was a co-host of \u201cThe Hoop Collective\u201d podcast (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49304563\/former-espn-nba-writer-tim-bontemps-joins-hawks-front-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN.com, 7\/8<\/a>). AWFUL ANNOUNCING\u2019s Sam Neumann notes Bomtemps was \u201cnotably absent from his usual spot\u201d on \u201cThe Hoop Collective\u201d in reacting to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/23\/heat-make-latest-star-acquisition-in-blockbuster-trade-for-antetokounmpo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/06\/23\/heat-make-latest-star-acquisition-in-blockbuster-trade-for-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo trade to the Heat<\/a>, which was \u201cas good a sign as any that something was in motion.\u201d Bontemps is \u201cpart of a much bigger pattern this year\u201d as pro teams have been \u201cpulling front-office hires from the press box.\u201d The pace lately \u201csays something about how much value front offices now place on the analytical muscle sports media has built over the last two decades\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nba\/tim-bontemps-hawks-front-office-official.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AWFUL ANNOUNCING, 7\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former ESPN senior NBA writer Tim Bontemps has been \u201chired for a front office role\u201d with the Hawks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,99],"class_list":["post-751276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}