Atlanta Hawks

Atlanta Hawks

▪ American basketball team
 American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks were one of the original franchises of the National Basketball Association (NBA) when the league was established in 1949. The team won its only NBA championship in 1958.

      Originally founded in Moline and Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa, as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946, the team played in the National Basketball League for three seasons before the founding of the NBA. They relocated to Milwaukee, Wis., before the 1951–52 season and shortened their nickname to the “Hawks.” After years of middling success, the Hawks drafted future Hall of Famer Bob Pettit (Pettit, Bob) with the second overall pick of the 1954 NBA draft, and the team's fortunes began to improve. The Hawks moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1955 and advanced to the NBA finals during the 1956–57 season, where they lost to the Boston Celtics in seven games. The Hawks defeated the Celtics in their finals rematch the following season, earning the first title in franchise history. Although the Hawks returned to the play-offs in all but one of the following 15 seasons, they advanced to the finals only twice, losing to the Celtics on both occasions.

      The Hawks were sold to a Georgia-based group in 1968, and they relocated to Atlanta. The early Atlanta teams featured such stars as Pete Maravich, Walt Bellamy, and Lou Hudson. In 1982 the Hawks acquired the most recognizable superstar of its Atlanta years in a post-draft trade that brought rookie Dominique Wilkins into the fold. Wilkins—known as “the Human Highlight Film” because of his impressively acrobatic slam dunks—led the Hawks to four consecutive 50-win seasons in the 1980s and made his mark as one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history. His individual accomplishments did not lead to postseason success for his team, however, as Atlanta did not advance past the second round of the NBA play-offs in any of his 12 seasons with the Hawks. The 1999–2000 season was the beginning of the longest play-off drought in Atlanta's history, but the Hawks returned to postseason play during the 2007–08 season with a young team that pushed the eventual-champion Celtics to seven games in their first-round series.

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