When Michelle Davis heard the NBA suspended its season due to coronavirus, anxiety started to set in.
Davis, a supervisor for event security, has worked for the Hawks for about 20 years. She’s a social worker full-time, but with her daughter a freshman at Kennesaw State, that extra income from working home games and events at State Farm Arena allows her to pay for housing, books and other expenses.
How would she make those ends meet, she thought, without that money? … She didn’t have to worry too long, as Hawks owner Tony Ressler and CEO Steve Koonin soon made it known they would take care of their part-time employees during the shutdown, continuing to pay them even though games and other events have effectively been canceled since March 11, the day Utah’s Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus and everything suddenly changed.