Atlanta Hawks
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 Atlanta Hawks facts

• 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 of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in 1946 in Moline, Illinois, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL) and owned by Ben Kerner & Leo Ferris
• In 1949, they 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
• The Hawks currently own the second-longest drought (behind the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship at 57 seasons
• The franchise's lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, occurred when the team was based in St