Atlanta Hawks
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| Conference | Eastern | |||
| Division | Southeast | |||
| Founded | 1946 | |||
| History |
Tri-Cities Blackhawks 1946–1951 Milwaukee Hawks 1951–1955 St. Louis Hawks 1955–1968 Atlanta Hawks 1968–present |
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| Arena | Philips Arena | |||
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia | |||
| Team colors | Torch Red, Volt Green, Georgia Granite Gray, White |
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| President | Mike Budenholzer | |||
| Team manager | Wes Wilcox | |||
| Head coach | Mike Budenholzer | |||
| Ownership | Tony Ressler | |||
| Affiliation(s) | College Park (beginning 2019–20) | |||
| Championships | 1 (1958) | |||
| Conference titles |
4 Western: 4 (1957, 1958, 1960, 1961) Eastern: 0 |
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| Division titles | 5 (1970, 1980, 1987, 1994, 2015) | |||
| Retired numbers | 5 (9, 21, 23, 44, 55) | |||
| Website | hawks.com | |||
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The Atlanta Hawks are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at Philips Arena.
The team's origins can be traced to the establishment in 1946 of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL), owned by Ben Kerner and Leo Ferris, and located in the Tri-Cities (now Quad Cities) area of Davenport, Iowa and Moline/Rock Island, Illinois. In 1949, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and had Red Auerbach as coach briefly. 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.
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