Fansided · Jun 21, 2018
2018 NBA Draft: Don’t Let Hawks History Repeat Itself
With only a few hours left until the NBA draft, let’s take a long walk down the yellow brick road back to 2005, one of the last times the Atlanta Hawks were picking inside the top 3.
Atlanta had just come off one of the worst seasons in franchise history, winning 13 games, 5 less than anyone else in the league.
Our team was lead in minutes and scoring by Antoine Walker (later traded that same season to Boston) and a young up-and-coming small forward named Josh Smith.
This team is not remembered fondly and rightly so, but what happened later in the offseason still looms over the franchise to this day.