Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta.
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48 Facts About Milwaukee Hawks
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The Milwaukee Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division.
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The Milwaukee Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals.
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Origins of the Atlanta Milwaukee Hawks can be traced to the Buffalo Bisons franchise, which was founded in 1946.
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Milwaukee Hawks remained one of the NBA's premier teams for the next decade.
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The following year, with the acquisition of rookie Lenny Wilkens, the Milwaukee Hawks repeated their success, but met the Celtics in the 1961 NBA Finals again and lost in five games.
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The Milwaukee Hawks occasionally played at the larger St Louis Arena, mostly against popular opponents, but Kerner was not willing to move the team there full-time because it had not been well-maintained since the 1940s.
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Also in 1972, the Milwaukee Hawks debuted a new logo and new colors, trading the green and blue color scheme that the team had used for two years, in favor of white, gold, and red, the same colors the Flames used.
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The Milwaukee Hawks were the only NBA team in the Deep South, just as the Atlanta Braves were the only Major League Baseball team in the region for many years to come.
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From 1985 to 1989, the Milwaukee Hawks were among the league's elite, winning 50 games or more each season.
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The Milwaukee Hawks drafted Stacey Augmon with their ninth overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft, who would make the All-Rookie First Team.
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In 1992, the Milwaukee Hawks acquired guard Mookie Blaylock from the New Jersey Nets; he would spend seven years of his career as a Hawk, leading them in career steals and three-point field goals while earning an All-Star appearance in 1994.
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The Milwaukee Hawks defeated the Detroit Pistons in five games in the first round of the 1997 NBA playoffs, but lost in five games in the second round to the defending champs Chicago Bulls.
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In 2001, the Milwaukee Hawks drafted Spanish star Pau Gasol 3rd, but his rights were ceded to the Memphis Grizzlies in a trade involving Shareef Abdur-Rahim.
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In February 2004, the Milwaukee Hawks had the distinction of having NBA All-Star Rasheed Wallace play one game for the team.
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The Milwaukee Hawks won all three games at Philips Arena, which hosted its first playoff games and earned its first sellout.
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In mid-season the Milwaukee Hawks traded Mike Bibby to the Washington Wizards for Kirk Hinrich, in hopes of bringing a defensive guard to replace the defensively liable Bibby.
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In December 2011, the Milwaukee Hawks signed Tracy McGrady, Jerry Stackhouse, Jason Collins, Vladimir Radmanovic, Jannero Pargo, and Willie Green.
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However, the Milwaukee Hawks would be eliminated in the first round by the Boston Celtics in six games, ending the Milwaukee Hawks' three-year streak of advancing to the second round.
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On June 25,2012, the Milwaukee Hawks hired San Antonio Spurs Vice President of Basketball Operations Danny Ferry as President of Basketball Operations and General Manager.
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On July 2,2012, the Milwaukee Hawks traded leading scorer and All-Star Joe Johnson to the Brooklyn Nets for Jordan Farmar, Anthony Morrow, DeShawn Stevenson, Jordan Williams and Johan Petro, as well as a 2013 first-round pick.
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That same day, the Milwaukee Hawks traded small forward Marvin Williams to the Utah Jazz for point guard Devin Harris.
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On February 21,2013, the Milwaukee Hawks traded Morrow to the Dallas Mavericks for Dahntay Jones.
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That same day, the Milwaukee Hawks traded a future 2nd-round pick to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Jeremy Tyler, who was waived 15 days later.
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On May 28,2013, the Milwaukee Hawks hired San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Mike Budenholzer as the new head coach.
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However, the Milwaukee Hawks traded Larkin to the Dallas Mavericks for the draft rights of Mike Muscala and Lucas Nogueira, as well as guard Jared Cunningham.
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The Milwaukee Hawks brought back Kyle Korver with a four-year, $24 million deal and signed power forward Paul Millsap to a two-year, $19 million deal.
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On December 26,2013, Horford tore his right pectoral muscle, and on December 30, the Milwaukee Hawks announced that he would undergo surgery the next day and would miss the rest of the season.
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The sale of the team as well as the operating rights to Philips Arena was handled by Goldman Sachs and Inner Circle Sports LLC The NBA has stated that the Milwaukee Hawks would remain in Atlanta as a condition of their sale.
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The 2015 All-Star Game consisted of four Milwaukee Hawks All-Stars including Jeff Teague, Paul Millsap, Kyle Korver and Al Horford.
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The Milwaukee Hawks set a franchise record by going 20-of-36 for three-pointers, breaking the mark of 19 set against the Dallas Mavericks on December 17,1996.
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On March 20,2015, the Milwaukee Hawks clinched their first division title in over two decades and became the first team not based in Florida to win the NBA's Southeast Division; one week later, with a win over Miami as well as a Cleveland loss to Brooklyn, the Milwaukee Hawks clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
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On June 22,2016, the Milwaukee Hawks traded Jeff Teague to Indiana in a three-team deal, that would give Utah's 12th pick in the 2016 NBA draft to the Milwaukee Hawks.
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Two days later, the Milwaukee Hawks selected Wake Forest power forward John Collins with the 19th overall pick.
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On July 13,2017, Paul Millsap left the Milwaukee Hawks by signing a multi-year deal with the Denver Nuggets.
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On June 21, the Milwaukee Hawks selected Luka Doncic with the third overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft and immediately traded him to the Dallas Mavericks for a 2019 protected first-round pick and the draft rights to Trae Young.
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The Atlanta Milwaukee Hawks selected Kevin Huerter with the 19th pick and Omari Spellman with the 30th pick of the 2018 NBA draft.
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In July 2018, the Milwaukee Hawks acquired Jeremy Lin, and traded Dennis Schroder, after he demanded to be traded.
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Milwaukee Hawks was voted in as a starter and was the first Hawks player to start in an All Star Game since Dikembe Mutombo in 1998.
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On February 4,2020, the Milwaukee Hawks were involved in a four team trade in which they acquired Clint Capela and Nene.
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The Milwaukee Hawks logo has shifted between variations of a full-bodied hawk holding a basketball on its claws and a silhouette of a hawk head.
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From 2007 to 2015, the Milwaukee Hawks returned to a red, blue and white scheme, adding silver as an accent color.
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The Milwaukee Hawks carried over their uniforms that they had worn the previous two seasons.
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On July 21,2020, the Milwaukee Hawks unveiled new uniforms with a look similar to the set they wore in the mid-1970s.
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Milwaukee Hawks wore special edition "City" uniforms as part of its uniform deal with Nike.
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Milwaukee Hawks hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.
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