The visiting Atlanta Hawks will look to make life worse for the hapless Washington Wizards on Tuesday night in NBA Cup action.

Atlanta has won seven of its last nine games and is 9-4 since star point guard Trae Young went down with a sprained MCL on Oct. 29. As Young nears the re-evaluation point of his recovery, Jalen Johnson has continued to assert himself as Atlanta's go-to player.

Johnson is averaging 22.4 points, 9.6 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game. Most recently, the fifth-year forward nearly completed a triple-double with a 28-point, 11-assist, eight-rebound output in the Hawks' 113-110 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Sunday.

After he averaged 4.6 turnovers across his previous five outings, Johnson was flawless in that category against Charlotte, emblematic of his evoluti

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