Trae Young trade is latest example of an NBA archetype going extinct

The Atlanta Hawks salary dumped Trae Young to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. It will be headlined as a trade, but Atlanta doesn't care too much about which players it got back in the deal: CJ McCollum and Corey Kispert. No draft picks were involved either way. For the Hawks, this was about getting Young off their books and their roster so they can officially begin moving in the direction of a new franchise player. Maybe they already have that guy in Jalen Johnson. Maybe they'll go get Anthony Davis. Either way, they're done with the ball-dominant, defensively deficient point guard that has become the most maligned player archetype in today's NBA. Teams used to fight over these...