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Atlanta Hawks Milestones

Order these Atlanta Hawks franchise moments by the year they happened. Place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Atlanta Hawks Milestones
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How Atlanta Hawks Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

26 of the 26 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Founded as the Tri-Cities Blackhawks The franchise entered the NBL representing Moline, Rock Island, and Davenport along the Mississippi.
  • Red Auerbach coached the Blackhawks The future Celtics legend spent a single stormy season coaching the Tri-Cities team before leaving.
  • Moved to Milwaukee The franchise abandoned the Quad Cities and became the Milwaukee Hawks.
  • Relocated to St. Louis The struggling Milwaukee club moved south and became the St. Louis Hawks.
  • Drafted and traded Bill Russell's rights St. Louis picked the Kansas center then dealt him to Boston for Ed Macauley and Cliff Hagan.
  • Lost the Finals to Boston in double overtime Bob Pettit's Hawks fell to the Celtics in a seven-game series decided in the final seconds of Game 7.
  • Won the NBA championship Bob Pettit scored 50 points in the clincher as St. Louis beat the Celtics for the franchise's only title.
  • Lost the Finals to Boston again St. Louis reached the championship round for the third time in four years but fell to the Celtics.
  • Relocated to Atlanta The franchise headed to Georgia, becoming the first major pro sports team in the Deep South.
  • Signed Pistol Pete Maravich Atlanta made the flashy LSU scorer a rookie sensation.
  • Lou Hudson set the franchise scoring standard Sweet Lou emerged as the Hawks' premier scorer of the early Atlanta years.
  • Hired coach Hubie Brown The demanding tactician took over the Atlanta bench.
  • Drafted Dominique Wilkins The Human Highlight Film's rights came to Atlanta via a draft-day trade with Utah.
  • Wilkins won the Slam Dunk Contest Dominique claimed the All-Star Weekend dunk crown in his home arena.
  • Won 57 games behind Wilkins and Wilkins Atlanta posted a franchise-record win total in the mid-1980s heyday.
  • The dunk contest duel with Jordan Wilkins and Michael Jordan traded 50-point dunks in a legendary Chicago showdown many felt Dominique won.
  • Traded Dominique Wilkins to the Clippers In a stunning midseason deal, Atlanta shipped its franchise icon west for Danny Manning.
  • Mookie Blaylock and the 57-win season A defense-first Lenny Wilkens team tied a franchise record for victories.
  • Opened Philips Arena The Hawks moved into a new downtown home built on the site of the demolished Omni.
  • Drafted Josh Smith Atlanta took the local high school leaper who became a fan favorite.
  • Ended a long playoff drought The young Hawks returned to the postseason and pushed the champion Celtics to seven games.
  • Retired Dominique Wilkins' No. 21 Atlanta raised the Human Highlight Film's jersey to the rafters.
  • Won a franchise-record 60 games A four-All-Star starting lineup earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
  • Traded away the Dwight Howard homecoming After one year, Atlanta dealt the local product to Charlotte and pivoted to a rebuild.
  • Drafted Trae Young in a draft-night swap Atlanta traded the Luka Doncic pick to Dallas to land the Oklahoma sharpshooter plus a future first.
  • Reached the Eastern Conference Finals Trae Young's Hawks shocked the Knicks and 76ers before falling to Milwaukee.

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