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The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at State Farm Arena.
Dominique Wilkins
Dominique is the all-time leading scorer of the Atlanta Hawks, nicknamed the 'Human Highlight Film' because of his astonishing athletic ability and showmanship. Wilkins was the Hawks' franchise player in the eighties and early nineties, and displayed a brand of athleticism that made him a virtually unstoppable scorer. In a Hawks uniform, Wilkins averaged 26.4 points per game over 12 years. His highest-scoring season came in 1986, when he poured in 30.3 points per game. Dominique Wilkins was a nine-time All-Star, a slam dunk champion and the leading scorer in Atlanta Hawks history. He retired in 1999 and is now an NBA broadcaster for Hawks games on Sports South.
Bob Pettit
Bob Pettit spent his entire career with the Hawks while they were still playing in Milwaukee and then in St. Louis. He was a two-time NBA MVP and remains one of the best scorers the game has ever seen. Bob Pettit posted a career average of 26.4 points per game, currently the seventh-highest career average in NBA history. He carried the Hawks to their NBA championship in 1958. Pettit was an NBA All-Star in each of his eleven seasons, was named to the All-NBA First Team ten times and made the All-NBA Second Team once. Pettit still holds the two best NBA All-Star Game rebounding performances, with 26 in 1958 and 27 in 1962, and has the second-highest All-Star Game points-per-game average at 20.4.
History of the Atlanta Hawks
The team's origins can be traced back to the founding of the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL), owned by Ben Kerner and Leo Ferris. After 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In 1949 they joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and briefly had Red Auerbach as their coach. In 1951 Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955, to St. Louis, where they won their only NBA championship in 1958 and qualified to play in the NBA Finals in 1957, 1960 and 1961. The Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. The St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins and former Georgia governor Carl Sanders. The Hawks currently hold the second-longest drought (after the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship after 60 seasons. The franchise's only NBA championship, as well as all four of its NBA Finals appearances, took place when the team was based in St. Louis. Meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until they finally broke through in 2015. However, the Hawks are one of only four NBA teams that have qualified to play in the NBA playoffs in 10 consecutive seasons. In the 21st century. They achieved this feat between 2008 and 2017.