On Thursday, the NBA officially laid out every date of its 2024-25 regular season — outside of the Emirates NBA Cup semifinals and finals, which will be determined by the results of that in-season contest’s quarterfinal results.

But one influential young talent took umbrage with league decision-makers upon seeing a certain holiday slate.

Three-time All-Star Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young recently chastised the NBA‘s schedulers when he realized his team was snubbed from making a Martin Luther King Jr. Day appearance on Monday, Jan. 20.

Instead, a pair of Turner Sports platforms will split the holiday’s three daytime matchups. The lowly Charlotte Hornets will host the Dallas Mavericks, fresh off a Finals appearance, in the day’s first contest, scheduled for 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. That bout will be broadcast on NBA TV.

Next, at 11:30 a.m. PT/2:30 p.m. ET via TNT, the Memphis Grizzlies will host the Minnesota Timberwolves at FedEx Forum. The day’s schedule of nationally broadcast games will wrap up with a 2022 NBA Finals rematch, between the reigning champion Boston Celtics and the very revamped Golen State Warriors. That encounter will tip off at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET.

A miffed Young took to his official X account to relay his concerns.

“MLK disappointed in y’all.. @NBA. I’m sorry Atlanta,” the 6-foot-1 vet wrote.

The Hawks do in fact play that day, against the New York Knicks at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. The NBA‘s decision not to share that meeting in a national broadcast does read a bit as a vote of no confidence in Atlanta. The Knicks, who finished with a 50-32 record and the Eastern Conference’s No. 2 seed behind Boston in 2023-24, remain one of the premiere NBA franchises, despite not enjoying much postseason success for the past two decades.

New York has 34 national games on the docket this coming season, tied with Boston for the third-most behind the Los Angeles Lakers’ 39 and the Warriors’ 36, per Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints. The Hawks, meanwhile, have just eight.

Not much has gone right for Atlanta since the club surprisingly advanced all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2021.

The team made a pair of first-round playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023 while finishing with a miserable 36-46 record in 2023-24. That was good enough for the team to nab the East’s tenth overall seed and a play-in tournament appearance, but Atlanta fell to the Chicago Bulls in their play-in game and ultimately missed the playoffs proper. The Hawks fired Nate McMillan, the coach who had led them to their deepest playoff run in decades, and replaced him with Quin Snyder, who has posted a cumulative 46-57 record with the squad in a smidge over a full season.

This summer, the Hawks traded Young’s All-Star backcourt running mate, combo guard Dejounte Murray, to the New Orleans Pelicans. That move effectively handed over the keys to Atlanta’s offense to Young. The one-time All-NBA Third Teamer averaged 25.7 points on a .430/.373/.855 slash line, 10.8 assists (against a brutal 4.4 turnovers), 2.8 rebounds, and 1.3 steals during his 54 healthy games with the team last year.

But the 25-year-old is one of the weakest perimeter defenders in the league, and his vulnerabilities on that end of the floor could be even more exposed this season than they were when he was suiting up alongside All-Defensive Teamer Murray. Clearly, the NBA is pessimistic about Atlanta’s chances next season, even after the team leaped up in the 2024 NBA Draft to select French forward Zaccharie Risacher with the No. 1 overall pick.

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