It’s been almost a week and it’s taken just as long to collect my thoughts about what we all witnessed. The Atlanta Hawks just finished what is arguably their best season ever since moving to Atlanta in 1968. Pete Maravich. Moses Malone. Dominique Wilkins. Some of the league’s greats once donned a Hawks jersey.
But none experienced the highs of a competitive Eastern Conference Final series.
First, I begin with a mea culpa. Just this past March, some loser was thoroughly unimpressed with the decision to move on from Lloyd Pierce and install interim head coach Nate McMillan in the middle of the season.