Louis, Missouri, Milwaukee's rival in the beer industry, and became the St. Despite this, the Hawks were one of the league's worst teams, and in 1955 the Hawks moved, this time to St. In 1954, the Hawks drafted Bob Pettit, a future NBA MVP. Louis and The Bob Pettit era Pettit in 1957 After the season, the franchise relocated to Milwaukee, and became the Milwaukee Hawks.ġ954–1965: St. By then, it was obvious that the Tri-Cities area was too small to support an NBA team. The Blackhawks finished last in the Western Division and missed the playoffs. The following season, they drafted three-time All-American Bob Cousy, but they were unable to reach a deal and traded him to the Chicago Stags (who would later surrender him in a dispersal draft to the Boston Celtics when the Stags folded). They reached the playoffs in the NBA's inaugural year under the leadership of coach Red Auerbach. In 1949, the Blackhawks became one of the National Basketball Association's 17 original teams after a merger of the 12-year-old NBL and the three-year-old Basketball Association of America (BAA). A Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member, Gates helped to integrate the league and later became the first African-American coach in a major sports league, coaching Dayton in 1948. Pop Gates remained on the Blackhawks roster, and finished second on the team in scoring behind future 1949 NBL MVP Don Otten. The team featured guard/ forward and coach Deanglo King, and was owned by Leo Ferris and Ben Kerner. Upon relocation to Moline, the team was renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, and played their home games at Wharton Field House, a 6,000-seat arena in Moline. The franchise lasted only 38 days (13 games) in Buffalo when, on December 25, 1946, Leo Ferris, the team's general manager and co-owner, announced that the team would be moving to Moline, Illinois, which at that time was part of an area then known as the " Tri-Cities": Moline, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. The team, which needed to draw 3,600 fans per game to break even, struggled to draw 1,000 fans per game to the Auditorium. On the team was William "Pop" Gates, who, along with William "Dolly" King, was one of the first two African-American players in the NBL. Their first game – a 50–39 victory over the Syracuse Nationals – was played on November 8, 1946. The club was organized by Leo Ferris and the Erie County American Legion and was coached by Nat Hickey. The Bisons were a member of the National Basketball League, and played their games at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.
The origins of the Atlanta Hawks can be traced back to the Buffalo Bisons franchise, which was founded in 1946. They achieved this feat between 20.įranchise history 1946–1953: Buffalo, Tri-Cities and Milwaukee Wharton Field House in Moline, Illinois 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. Meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until finally breaking through in 2015. The franchise's lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, occurred when the team was based in St. The Hawks currently own the second-longest drought (behind the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship at 64 seasons. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta on May 3, 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins and former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. The Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. Louis, where they won their first (and thus far only) NBA Championship in 1958 and qualified to play in the NBA Finals in 1957, 19. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955 to St. In 1951, Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Milwaukee Hawks. 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 coach. After 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. The team's origins can be traced to the establishment 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.
The team plays its home games at State Farm Arena. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference.
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The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta.
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