Atlanta Hawks is an American YouTube channel and a NBA basketball team located in Atlanta, Georgia.[1]
History[]
The Atlanta Hawks went way back to the Buffalo Bisons franchise, which was founded in 1946. The Bisons were a member of the National Basketball League, and played their games at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The club was organized by Leo Ferris and the Erie County American Legion and was coached by Nat Hickey.[2] The team struggled to draw 1,000 fans per game to the Auditorium. The franchise lasted only 38 days 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.[3]
The team was renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks, and played their home games at Wharton Field House.[4]
In 1954, the Hawks drafted Bob Pettit. Despite this, the Hawks were one of the league's worst teams, and in 1955 the Hawks moved, this time to St. Louis, Missouri, Milwaukee's rival in the beer industry, and became the St. Louis Hawks.[5]
Despite the success, Kerner became weary of the Hawks' longtime home, Kiel Auditorium. The Hawks occasionally played at the larger St. Louis Arena, but Kerner was not willing to move the team there full-time because it had not been well-maintained since the 1940s. Even though it was being heavily renovated to accommodate the arrival of the National Hockey League's St. Louis Blues in 1967, Kerner was still not willing to move to the St. Louis Arena. He wanted a new arena to increase revenue. However, Kerner was rebuffed by the city on several occasions. In early 1967, Kerner briefly put the Hawks up for sale.[6] One of the bidders was a New Orleans group led by future talk show host Morton Downey Jr.[7]
Unable to resolve the arena situation, Kerner sold the Hawks to Atlanta real estate developer Tom Cousins and former Georgia governor Carl Sanders, who moved the team to Atlanta in 1968.[8]
Channel[]
The Atlanta Hawks channel was created on July 27, 2011. Their first video was uploaded on December 14, 2011. Their first video is titled "T-Mac Talks at Training Camp - Day 2".
References[]
- ↑ https://www.elitesportstours.ca/where-do-the-atlanta-hawks-play-basketball
- ↑ http://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ferris32z.jpg
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwagner/2021/06/21/long-before-the-bucks-were-born-milwaukee-was-home-of-the-hawks/?sh=429657c84082
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20131023232607/https://www.nba.com/hawks/history/season-by-season-recaps.html
- ↑ https://mosportshalloffame.com/inductees/bob-pettit-2/
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NlZYAAAAIBAJ&pg=3360%2C376983
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7WRYAAAAIBAJ&pg=2102%2C164235
- ↑ http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aqh&AN=101380944&site=eds-live&scope=site
