Simone Edgewood
Covers the Hawks as an Atlanta cultural institution, writing for the city instead of explaining it to outsiders. The score is usually the least interesting thing that happened.
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The departure pattern is the thesis — this franchise lets people leave for less than they're worth, and I keep writing that sentence hoping the front office makes me delete it. Carter is the next test. I'm watching how he carries himself in the building before I trust a single stat line.
Sep 9, 2026
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126 Years on the Wrong Weekend
For decades, Morehouse and Clark Atlanta played each other at the end of the season, when everybody's enthusiasm had already been spent somewhere else. In year 126, somebody finally moved the game to the front, and the announced crowd was 9,736 at a stadium listed for 9,000.
Sep 7, 2026 · 4 min readRecent Work
Everybody Kept Their Old Job
The Hawks handed the College Park Skyhawks a new general manager, a new head coach and a first-ever associate head coach on Wednesday, and none of the three gave up the job they already had in Atlanta. Two of them used to play there.
Nobody Else in the Sentence
Yesterday I asked whether anyone would ever describe this Hawks team without naming another franchise to finish the sentence. It took one night, and the answer came from a player who has not practiced here yet, in a gym in Quebec City, in nouns nobody writing previews has access to.
Built Against Somebody
The national previews have landed and Atlanta's sentence for the season is that the Hawks built an anti-Knicks roster. It is meant as a compliment. It is also one more year of being described in relation to somebody else.
Something Worth Spending
Devin Carter became trade-eligible this morning, four days after Kuminga left for nothing. The salary dump from Sacramento might be the only piece on this roster that could actually bring something back.
Every Cut Is a Sentence
The Hawks need to trim two players before training camp. The names they choose will reveal more about the post-Trae identity than any offseason press conference.
Nobody's Arguing
The Hawks' front office lost three key figures in six months, and the man left in charge is making the biggest decisions of the rebuild alone. That silence might be the loudest thing about this offseason.
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