Do you want the good news or the bad news first, Atlanta Hawks fans? Let’s start with the bad news. Paul Millsap has missed each of the last five games with a knee injury, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be returning too soon, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: Paul Millsap will be out at [...]
March 28, 2017
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The Hawks have been a franchise seemingly on the cusp of a tear-down and rebuild for almost three years now, as a team occupying the space of a team good enough to win a playoff series, but not a real contender. When the Hawks dealt Kyle Korver a month and a half ago, many around [...]
March 2, 2017
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Ryan Bawek
Does anyone believe the Atlanta Hawks? The answer to that question might have been a resounding no roughly one month ago, just after they shipped Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But their preference not to trade Paul Millsap no longer feels like the most transparent of ploys. We are less than two weeks from the [...]
February 13, 2017
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It was definitely a Sunday matinee in Phillips Arena as the Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks treated fans to a whole heaping of free basketball in their 142-139 instant classic that went to four overtimes. Unfortunately the Knicks have found another new, excruciating way to lose a basketball game, something they have being doing [...]
January 30, 2017
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek
When news broke that the Hawks had dealt longtime sharpshooter and fan favorite Kyle Korver to the Cavaliers, the effect that reverberated around the NBA for the next 48 hours was that the Hawks had decided to blow it up and start over, something personnel around the league knew that Hawks were on the brink [...]
January 19, 2017
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Rumors
It looks like the Atlanta Hawks won’t be sellers at the trade deadline after all. For now. After trading Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Hawks moved Paul Millsap to the chopping block. But, roughly one second later, they took him off, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: For now, Atlanta Hawks All-Star forward Paul [...]
January 10, 2017
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Contrary to what some may think (only those who have never played competitive basketball) basketball can be a very physical sport. Banging bodies and fighting for leverage with some of the most chiseled and impressive athletes in the world night in and night out can and does take a toll on even the most durable [...]
October 20, 2016
Anou Enright
Offbeat
Dwight Howard probably wouldn’t be a member of the Atlanta Hawks if it weren’t for Grant Hill, one of the team’s minority owners. True story. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Grant Hill was a big part of the process,” Howard said of the Hawks’ minority owner and former fellow Orlando Magic star in an interview that [...]
July 13, 2016
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Dwight Howard has already set up two meetings to start the NBA’s 2016 free-agency period, and the Houston Rockets aren’t one of them. According to ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard and Marc Stein, Howard will talk shop with the Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics first, before moving on to other teams: The Atlanta Hawks and Boston Celtics [...]
June 29, 2016
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Jeff Teague spilled the beans on his Instagram account Thursday morning about his dangerous and interesting decision to play the entire 2015-16 season with a torn patella tendon in his right knee. [tweet https://twitter.com/Shaqtin_A_Fool/status/740926767771291648] Teague quickly deleted the Instagram post as he was probably alerted to do so by his agent, the Hawks organization or [...]
June 10, 2016
Anou Enright
Ryan Bawek