Lorenzen Wright, a 10-year veteran, is the oldest player on a Hawks team that was the league's youngest last year and the veteran presence inside that the Hawks lacked during last season's 26-56 campaign.

Wright signed a two-year deal, worth more than $3 million per season, that brings him back to the franchise he spent two years with earlier in his career ? he spent the 1999-00 and 2000-01 seasons with the Hawks.

"I've been to the playoffs at every stop of my career except this one," said Wright, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Clippers with the seventh pick in the 1996 draft and spent the past five years in Memphis. "I feel like this is a second chance to fix that with the Hawks. And really, being back here for a second time feels like I'm back home. It really does. There's a lot of quality talent here, young talent, and hopefully I can provide some of whatever has been missing here since I left."