The Hawks played 12 home games in New Orleans during the 1984-85 season. Yet what people – including several Hawks players – remember most is the Larry Bird 60-point game.
Yes, one of the Hawks’ games in New Orleans was against the Boston Celtics and Bird lit them up.
“Oh yeah, I remember that very well,” Dominique Wilkins, then in his third season, said recently. “I remember Kevin Willis and I were like ‘He can’t be that hot. He’s shooting 3’s with his left. He can’t be that hot. I had a super game. They don’t talk about that.