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Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Hawks coached by Mike Woodson, who is in his fifth season in helm.The franchise was founded in 1946 by the National Basketball League Buffalo insects. Bison Center featured Don Otten and coach Nat Hickey, and on December 27, 1946 only thirteen games in their first season, owner Ben Kerner, the Atlanta Hawks tickets moved to Moline, Ill. (See Buffalo Memorial Auditorium). (At that time, this area was known as the “Tri-Cities” (Moline, Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa. [1]), although today it is called the Quad Cities “). Kerner renamed the team Tri -Cities Blackhawks; Blackhawks were named after the Black Hawk War, which was mostly fought in Illinois. Blackhawks became one of the 17 original National Basketball Association teams after the merger in 1949, the 12-year-old NBL, and four-year-old Basketball Association of America. Blackhawks reached the playoffs in the first year of the NBA, under the leadership of coach Red Auerbach. Nevertheless, in the next season after the team drafted Bob Cousy and made the mistake of trading his rights to the Chicago Stags (who subsequently transmit it in a dispersal draft ” Boston Celtics after folded), they failed to qualify for the Postseason. In 1951, the franchise moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became the Milwaukee Hawks. In 1953, the Atlanta Hawks event drafted Bob Pettit, the future NBA MVP. Despite this, “hawks” were one of the worst teams the league, and in 1955 the Hawks moved again, this time in St. Louis, Missouri.