One of the NBA media's most prominent voices is headed behind the scenes.
Former ESPN reporter and co-host of The Hoop Collective Tim Bontemps accepted a job with the Atlanta Hawks as a strategic adviser, he announced on Wednesday.
Bontemps will report to Hawks president of basketball operations Onsi Saleh, who was recently promoted from general manager — a position he took up at the end of the 2024-25 season.
Bontemps is the third ESPN personality to step into a basketball front-office role in recent years.
In May 2022, the Portland Trail Blazers hired former ESPN and DraftExpress analyst Mike Schmitz as an assistant general manager under GM Joe Cronin. Schmitz was recently hired as GM of the Dallas Mavericks, helping to lead a new front office under president Masai Ujiri.
In September 2024, former NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski made the stunning decision to take over as general manager of his alma mater, St. Bonaventure, as the Atlantic 10 outfit looked to navigate the NIL landscape of college hoops.
Bontemps will join an Atlanta franchise on the upswing. After trading all-star Trae Young at the deadline, the Hawks went 28-15 down the stretch and took a pair of games off the eventual champion Knicks in the first round of the playoffs.
Now, Bontemps will join the front office as it tries to bolster a core that includes all-star Jalen Johnson, Most Improved Player Nickeil Alexander-Walker and the eighth-overall pick, Kingston Flemings.
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