{"id":2008,"date":"2025-05-11T07:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/onsi-saleh.html"},"modified":"2025-05-11T07:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:54:04","slug":"onsi-saleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/onsi-saleh.html","title":{"rendered":"Who is onsi saleh? (and why is his cat running for mayor\u202f\u2014\u202fseriously, we need answers!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id='video-container' data-video-id='q__V3xB3Rc4' style='width:100%; height:auto; max-width:587px; position: relative;'>\n<div class='image-video-plugin' style='background:url(\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/q__V3xB3Rc4\/0.jpg\") center no-repeat; background-size: cover;'><\/div>\n<p>        <span class='youtube-play-button'><\/span><br \/>\n        <noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q__V3xB3Rc4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/noscript>\n    <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Who is the GM of the Atlanta Hawks?<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever wondered who\u2019s pulling the <b>invisible strings<\/b> behind the Atlanta Hawks\u2019 roster magic, meet <b>Landry Fields<\/b> \u2013 the man whose job description probably includes phrases like \u201calchemist of basketball decisions\u201d and \u201cwrangler of spreadsheets.\u201d Officially named GM in 2022, Fields went from <i>\u201chey, wasn\u2019t he an NBA player?\u201d<\/i> to <i>\u201coh, he\u2019s the guy making sure Trae Young doesn\u2019t have to play 1-on-5.\u201d<\/i> Think of him as the <b>Waffle House short-order cook of roster moves<\/b>: always flipping lineups, scrambling deals, and serving up fresh surprises.<\/p>\n<h3>The Man Behind the Curtain (No, Not *That* Kind of Wizard)<\/h3>\n<div class='global-div-post-related-aib'><a href='\/news\/nail-ideas-for-prom.html' class='post-related-aib'><div class='internal-div-post-related-aib'><span class='text-post-related-aib'>You may also be interested in:<\/span>&nbsp; <span class='post-title-aib'>Stunning nail ideas for prom: discover the perfect look to steal the spotlight!<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Landry\u2019s journey to GM-dom reads like a buddy cop movie: former Stanford standout, NBA journeyman (Knicks fans still whisper his name), then a rapid ascent through the Hawks\u2019 front office. His resume now includes:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Master of Draft Night Poker Faces<\/b> (see: AJ Griffin at No. 16 in 2022),<\/li>\n<li><b>Negotiator of Trades That Make Twitter Melt<\/b>,<\/li>\n<li><b>Chief Officer of \u201cWait, How Did They Afford That?\u201d<\/b> (Dejounte Murray, anyone?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He\u2019s like if your fantasy league commissioner suddenly got a PhD in Salary Cap Sorcery.<\/p>\n<h3>Dealing With More Plots Than a Telenovela<\/h3>\n<div class='global-div-post-related-aib'><a href='\/news\/do-we-get-a-day-off-if-the-pope-dies.html' class='post-related-aib'><div class='internal-div-post-related-aib'><span class='text-post-related-aib'>You may also be interested in:<\/span>&nbsp; <span class='post-title-aib'>The morbidly curious guide to papal passing perks: do we get a day\u202foff if the pope dies\u202f? (Asking for a catholic couch potato.)<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Fields\u2019 job isn\u2019t just about drafting and trading. It\u2019s about juggling <b>egos, analytics, and the occasional Atlanta traffic joke<\/b>. One day he\u2019s fending off trade machine addicts, the next he\u2019s explaining why \u201cvibes\u201d are a legitimate team-building metric. Rumor has it his secret weapon is a spreadsheet that crunches numbers *and* makes a mean sweet tea. But hey, when you\u2019re tasked with building a contender around a human highlight reel (Trae) and a defense-first guard (Murray), you either become a <b>front office MacGyver<\/b> or end up hiding in the Philips Arena supply closet.<\/p>\n<div class='global-div-post-related-aib'><a href='\/news\/prompt-crossword-clue.html' class='post-related-aib'><div class='internal-div-post-related-aib'><span class='text-post-related-aib'>You may also be interested in:<\/span>&nbsp; <span class='post-title-aib'>; are important. So wherever these punctuations follow a word, I need to use a non-breaking space to prevent awkward line breaks. Let me remember that in French typography, a non-breaking space is used before certain punctuation marks, but the user might be referring to that or just ensuring that the punctuation sticks to the previous word. Maybe they want to avoid the punctuation being alone on a new line. So I should use &nbsp; before the punctuation if needed. Now, the tone: humorous, offbeat, absurdist. Maybe something unexpected. Crossword clues can be tricky, so playing on that. Words like<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So next time you see the Hawks make a move that\u2019s equal parts confusing and brilliant? Blame (or thank) Landry. Just don\u2019t ask him where he hid the team\u2019s draft picks \u2013 some secrets are best kept in the <b>shadow realm of NBA bureaucracy<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the GM of the Atlanta Hawks? If you\u2019ve ever wondered who\u2019s pulling the invisible strings behind the Atlanta Hawks\u2019 roster magic, meet Landry Fields \u2013 the man whose job description probably includes phrases like \u201calchemist of basketball decisions\u201d and \u201cwrangler of spreadsheets.\u201d Officially named GM in 2022, Fields went from \u201chey, wasn\u2019t he&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/onsi-saleh.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who is onsi saleh? (and why is his cat running for mayor\u202f\u2014\u202fseriously, we need answers!)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fotobreak.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}