On Wednesday evening, Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks saw their season come to an unceremonious end with a brutal blowout Play-In game loss to the Chicago Bulls on the road, signaling the conclusion of what had been a disastrous 2023-24 campaign on multiple fronts for an Atlanta team that was expected to compete for at the very least a top six seed in the vaunted Eastern Conference playoff picture. Instead, the same defensive issues that defined the Hawks during the 2022-23 season reared their ugly heads once again, and Young missed the longest stretch of his career this year due to a finger injury which required surgery, consequently looking nothing like himself during the team’s horrible performance vs the Bulls.

On Friday morning, the Hawks held their annual exit interviews, which are starting to become a yearly tradition in mid-April as opposed to May or June.

During them, Young spoke on how he views his future with the franchise, and his comments aren’t exactly sure to encourage Hawks fans who want to see the team’s best player in franchise history stick around for the long haul.

“Obviously I want to be here. I want to be here, but I want to win too… I want to be here. I want to win championships here… That’s been me from the beginning,” said Young, per Brad Rowland of the Locked on Hawks podcast on X, the social media platform formerly referred to as Twitter.

Young also spoke on his immense expectations for the franchise.