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Photo by Will Newton/Getty Images The 2020-21 NBA season is nearly here and, after the longest break in recorded history, the Atlanta Hawks will return to action in the coming days. Before the regular season tips off on Dec. 23, the Peachtree Hoops is coming together for a ten-part roundtable series, setting the stage for what’s to come. In part four, our writers discuss expectations for Atlanta’s trio of returning young wings. Brad Rowland: This is a tough one. Only one of these players pr...

Biggest Acquisitions Danilo Gallinari: Danilo Gallinari may have been the Hawks biggest splash signing but he’s expected to play a sixth man role in Atlanta after a strong 2019-20 campaign with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Expect Gallinari to thrive as a perimeter shooter playing off of Trae Young and to play intelligent defense. Bogdan Bogdanovic: Bogdan Bogdanovic’s path to the Hawks is one for the books, with a botched trade between the Sacramento Kings and Milwaukee Bucks leading to the s...

Ready or not, the 2020-21 NBA Season is here! Well, the preseason is, anyway. It feels like just yesterday we were bidding the 2019-20 season farewell. Still, in what has been a pretty dang miserable year, it is nice to have the Raptors back in our lives, isn’t it? And lucky for us, our first preseason action showed us that this year’s Toronto Raptors team, despite the new faces, might be just as fun as last year’s, as they spent the middle two quarters of last night’s game just steamro...

Atlanta Hawks Losses: Dewayne Dedmon, Jeff Teague, Vince Carter, Treveon Graham, Skal Labissiere, DeAndre’ Bembry, Damian Jones 2019-20 Record: 20-47, 14 th in Eastern Conference Analysis: No division saw its teams improve more this offseason than the Southeast, and no team in the division improved more than the Atlanta Hawks. The 19-20 season was supposed to be the year Atlanta made a playoff push, but the Hawks finished with one of the worst records in the NBA. That put GM Travis Schlenk an...