The Atlantic Hawks have officially clinched a playoff spot
By defeating the Cavs, the Atlantic Hawks have secured the playoff spot by doing no worst then the 6th seed.
That’s right we are the team of the entire Atlantic coast.
I’m gonna laugh my ass off when you both win the division and get the number one overall off of the Pelicans
Keep going I’m almost there
Or the Bucks!
Hell yeah we are
College basketball has taught me that that includes California, so congratulations!
When the expansion happens it will make probably make sense to have two divisions of 8 and so the East will probably be just Atlantic and Midwest…so whenever Atlanta Hawks win the division you should talk your shit and be referred to as the Atlantic Hawks
Why have divisions at all? Seems pretty vestigial atp
I agree with the concept of no divisions, but in order to sort out the number of games against each team you would need divisions right? Like 4 games against your division and 2 against all others? Would cut schedule 6 games per team.
Rofl after seeing my typo
CA-FUCKING-CAW!!!!
Why can’t bodies of water have a team. St Lawrence River vs Hudson would be sick
you’re telling me we don’t HAVE to do the play-in games every year? Thats all we’ve ever known though
Gabe Vincent has shown us the light
I don’t know what happened in LA, but dude has been great off the bench for us. If not for Kennard I’d truly believe that whole guys go to LA and forget how to shoot thing. Gabe is a sniper in ATL.
Sounds like it was a good win win trade
We got rid of rubbish and got a good shooter
And you guys got a good gabe Vincent
I still miss Kennard and think he would’ve been amazing in this roster that we have now. But yes, Gabe’s been great. Very happy with him
Maybe he looks better because yall have defenders around him. With us, he was the main POA defender and kept getting scored on because of his height
That’s probably exactly what it is
Yall didn’t know how to use him. Hes actually good at POA. Hawks know how to use him and so did MIA. He just wasn’t popular so Lakers said meh
he has not been a sniper for us lol, his defense is good tho
I’m just saying I fully expected to hate him based on the Lakers fans, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Yeah he’s playing limited minutes as he should, but he’s doing the job well
Sad. Because Gabe is usually a play-in demon
It’s common for players to play worse after they go to the Lakers. Gabe, DLo, Not Clint Capela
Nnamdi is such a spirit animal.
I’m glad he’s back with a fanbase who appreciates him
Hawks 🤝 Bulls
Escaping the play in
Yes, the team finally putting an end to the “Perfectly balanced, as all things should be” identity.
I don’t know what to do with my hands
Oh you know what to do
Honestly, don’t talk to me unless your favorite NBA team won their division in the 2025-2026 season.
Oh hey
hello
A life like this sure is sweet, huh?
Hey
How’re you liking Luke Kennard?
I’m a big fan of him
His passing is underrated. I was shocked seeing him run an offense And not look terrible
He’s so much more than a pure shooter
What the fuck is a division
Hello
Aw, man 😞
Sorry bud
Damn, bro just instantly killed the whole vibe
For the first time, the Atlanta Hawks won’t be in the NBA Play-In Tournament. Often called the ‘The Atlanta Hawks Invitational’.
That’s an insult to Bam Adebayo and his Miami Heat. The east Play-In might as well be renamed to the ‘Bam Adebayo Invitational games’ with him being the 3-time reigning champion
Wasn’t the year we went to the ECF the first time it was officially implemented?
You’re right! I thought it was the year after but it was that year.
Correct, Hawks were the 5 seed that year though
The Young-Butler-Derozan invitational, however the Heat are forced to say goodbye to their playin pals as the hawks are too good and the bulls are too trash 😔
Crazy how that nickname stuck for so long. Feels good to finally break the cycle.
It’s about time they broke that cycle, honestly. The play-in tournament was starting to feel like their permanent address.
Need a cavs-hawks first round banger
BREAKING: Paul Millsap, Al Horford, DeMarre ‘LeBron Stopper’ Carroll and Jeff Teague all coming out of retirement for the series
Thabo Sefalosha’s fully healed leg not broken by NYPD.
Pero Antic showing up to splash a couple threes
Zaza is on the way!!!
I’m ready for some prime Shelvin Mack 3rd string PG minutes
Dominique Wilkins warming up as we speak.
Yall would love that, because Larry would 100% come out of retirement if he heard Nique was back
Kyle Korver erasure.
Al Horford is still very much alive.
Hawks need to beat the heat to secure that matchup. Because Charlotte lost today if the heat win they could jump over Charlotte for 9th so the heat actually have something to play for too
There’s another scenario where the magic go 2-0 and the hawks get the 5th over the raptors in a 3 way tie
Raps not losing to the Nets, so I’m just hoping we hold the seventh seed and host the Sixers. I don’t want to see the Hornets again this season
Would rather play the Raps so in also hoping for this matchup
That series would be wild, Trae vs Donovan would be a scoring frenzy every night.
Trae is on the wizards
bot
We need the cavs matchup so that we get magic city harden
Need every debuff against the opponents we can get. Might just negate home court disadvantage
Well, at least we’d know if he really wants to win as much as he says he does when having to choose between his non basketball passion or locking in.
Ps congrats!
Magic City Harden would be a legendary playoff storyline, not gonna lie.
Magic City Harden would be the most Atlanta playoff storyline ever.
Magic City Harden would be an unstoppable force, but honestly I just want to see Trae go off in the playoffs again.
About that buddy…you might want to take a seat.
Suck it, Spurs.
Fair enough after all the shit our fanbase said, you guys have been on fire since the trade deadline
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He won’t be here in another 2 years but the Pelicans’ lottery pick will…
woulda been top 4 for sure… curses
Good. We didn’t need the Spurs getting a lottery pick because the league loves rigging the lottery for them
Just one more bro. /s
I don’t think you guys have enough Guards I think you should use our pick to draft Bennett Sturtz.
Some of the mocks had cooper and Kon going to spurs.
They even practiced in spurs facility before final 4.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBASpurs/comments/1jqao7y/duke_team_training_in_san_antonios_new_facility/.
They were destined to be on spurs if rigged and then luka trade happened. They rigged cooper to mavs.
For my money, they’re the best story of the year.
Celtics, Pistons, Wemby, Hornets, Shai and Jokic….
The Hawks are still my favorite story.
Honestly didn’t think they’d pull it together after that rough stretch, but they’ve been so fun to watch lately.
Honestly didn’t see them putting it together like this after the coaching change, but they’ve been so fun to watch.
Honestly didn’t see them putting it together this quickly after the coaching change, but they’ve been so fun to watch.
Why exactly? Their over under was 47.5 so they are actually gonna underperform their expectations lol
Because Trae and Porzingis got hurt then we traded both of them away. It was a pretty tumultuous season before the second-half rally.
Name every team in the playoffs whose top two highest paid players at the beginning of the season are no longer on the team
The point is they didnt surprise anyone this year. They finished exactly where they were projected to finish
are you slow
Magic fan, so yes
Considering that they were 27-30 while making future oriented trades, I’d say we surprised people. That 47.5 was for a different team
Mickey Mouse education
I hope you bet on the under
Except not for the reasons everyone thought they would.
whose top two highest paid players at the beginning of the season are no longer on the team
…
didnt surprise anyone this year
Please show your ticket showing you bet on this to happen. I can’t even imagine the odds or why a sports book would have offered the bet
Ah yes the Cj McCollum and NAW led hawks squad that folks predicted would be so good
In addition to everyone else’s point, our over under was 46.5 lol.
Also hit 46 wins—most outlets preseason O/U—despite being without Trae and KP for most of the front half of the season, before trading them both.
Addition by subtraction, baby.
“Play in my ass.” -Hawks Legend Jeff Teague
W for hawks fans
GG Atlanta, thanks for nothing.
/s good job Hawks caw caw
These guys are gonna be a hardout, you can just tell
CAW CAW
They’ve locked in the 5th seed im pretty sure. Raptors lose tonight, then they tie with hawks but hawks are division leaders so they automatically get 5th.
Raptors have the tiebreak
Don’t matter I just looked at the standings and you guys are winning against the heats so that should give you guys an easy 47-35. We’ll be in 6th because we’ve lost to knicks tonight so our best is probably 46-36 (if we don’t lose to the nets again lmao). We own tiebreaker against magic, and 76ers fumbled
Fair, but if you beat the Nets and we lose to the heat, you get the fifth
not if orlando wins too I think
Raptors can still tie with Hawks by winning 2 games and Hawks losing the final game. Raptors hold tiebreaker over Hawks, so Raptors is ahead in that scenario.
It’s weird, because we lose the tiebreak with Toronto but win a 3-way tie with Orlando and Toronto. So if Orlando goes 2-0 we’d be the 5 seed
Sooo if you lose your last game and Toronto wins their last, you’re gonna ask for our help?
Please, just this one time 🙏 (the beating we recently gave y’all was out of love)
I dunno, Mazzulla is crazy. He’ll probably play Tatum and Brown for whatever reasons 😅🤷
In that scenario who’d be the 6 seed?
Pretty sure it’d be Toronto in that case
Sounds good to me!
doesn’t matter anymore. Hawks have a 1 game lead and they probably will win against heats. Also im pretty sure division leader had more priority than tie breaker. Hawks are the division leader so they have priority over toronto despite the tie breaker
Division winner is only relevant in the case of a three-way tie. In a two-way tie between the Hawks and Raps, the Raps would win.
I don’t think division leader gets any preferential seeding because of “Why is Portland the 4 seed?” back in the day
Division winner doesn’t matter anymore I’m pretty sure they got rid of that.
YEAH WE THE ATLANTIC BABY - WE TAKE IT ALL
You guys are killing me with my typo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean
I hate this!!!
Congrats Atl haha
The Atlanta Hawks play-in invitational is gonna feel weird without them being in it
Name it after the Miami Heat.
Can you be more pacific?
Lol, I finally saw my bad spelling
Knicks fans are praying for the Heat to lose tomorrow.
We’re pretty fine either way, but the Raptors are a more straightforward beatdown for sure.
You better hope. A first round exit would be a complete blowup of the roster lol
Knicks have never been first rounded in the Brunson era, and we’ve played MVP Embiid, 50 win Cavs team with one of the best net ratings that season, and Pistons last year who are now the #1 seed
Ummm the hawks beat y’all in 6 not too long ago.
You were 100ths of a second away from overtime on Monday. Why would you want a whole series of that instead of the Raptors you just finished blowing out?
But what about the Pacific Hawks
That’s what getting Jonathan Kuminga does to a team (jk I haven’t watched any hawks bball)
He’s actually been great for us
Hawks Cavs first round series gonna go hard
Love the strip clubs in the Atlantic
Thank god spurs don’t get another lotto pick this year
The Spurs will NOT have a lottery pick this year
God damn you Cavs! We needed you to do us a solid tonight.
They went on an absolute heater, 20-5 post-allstar
Play in no longer runs through Atlanta 😔
*stares in Trae Young* in Shambles!
Watch out
Atlantic??? We Atlanta bro!!