Jalen Johnson’s second leap shows the Hawks aren’t just Trae Young’s team anymore

Jalen Johnson has spent an inordinate amount of time watching from the sidelines for a player identified as a potential star from an early age. Go back to his prep days when Johnson left his suburban Milwaukee public high school to transfer to national powerhouse IMG Academy in Florida only to leave without ever playing a game. Take his brief college career at Duke, where Johnson was supposed to be the next in a long line of talented five-star forwards to play for Mike Krzyzewski before an early season foot injury contributed to him leaving the team in Feb. after only 13 underwhelming games. His path with the Atlanta

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