The Hawks spent their summer without one of the key people in their front office, and now that vacancy finally has a name attached to it.
On Tuesday morning, Atlanta announced a series of front office changes, highlighted by the promotion of Peter Dinwiddie from senior vice president of strategy and analytics to executive vice president of basketball operations. That move gives Onsi Saleh another top voice in the room after Bryson Graham left for an expanded role with the Chicago Bulls.
Graham had been Saleh’s right-hand man and the Hawks’ senior vice president of basketball operations, so his departure left a noticeable gap even if it was easy to overlook amid the chaos of the offseason. Atlanta kept moving, kept making decisions, and kept shaping a roster that could push toward the top of the Eastern Conference without landing a superstar.
Dinwiddie is not some outside hire brought in to learn the building from scratch. He joined the Hawks in the same 2025 offseason as Graham, right after the firing of Landry Fields, and now he slides into the same kind of elevated role Graham once held under Saleh.
With Saleh in charge, Atlanta has operated in a way that suggests it can keep making the right calls. Dinwiddie’s promotion adds another respected voice to that process, especially with roster decisions still looming.
The Hawks are carrying 17 players right now and need to trim down to 15 before the season begins in just over a month. That work still has to get done, and the front office reshuffling may help get it done sooner rather than later.
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