On Thursday evening, Dejounte Murray and the Atlanta Hawks somehow picked up their second straight win over the best team in the NBA, the Boston Celtics, in the friendly confines of State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Hawks will try to continue their late-season surge on Saturday when they host the Milwaukee Bucks, the team with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference.
Earlier this week, Dejounte Murray and the Atlanta Hawks put together perhaps the most surprising two-game stretch of this entire NBA season by defeating the Boston Celtics–who own the NBA’s best record by a country mile–two times in a row in the friendly confines of State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
One of the oddest trends to emerge in the NBA in recent nights is the Boston Celtics‘ inability to put away the Atlanta Hawks. On Monday, the Celtics blew a 30-point lead to the Hawks, resulting in one of the wildest comebacks in league history.
The Atlanta Hawks have been having a dreadful 2023-24 campaign, but they still have a chance to make some noise in the play-in tournament and then the NBA playoffs.
Dejounte Murray‘s sensational performance, capped by a career-high 44 points and a game-winning jumper in the final seconds of overtime, lifted the Atlanta Hawks to a narrow 123-122 win over the Boston Celtics during Thursday’s NBA action.
Dejounte Murray made a game-winning jump shot with .01 seconds left in overtime to help lift the Hawks over the Celtics, 123-122 in a thriller to the finish on Thursday.
The 2023-24 NBA regular season has not gone according to plan for the Atlanta Hawks to this point. They are 32-39 on the season, holding onto the 10th spot in the Eastern Conference, which is the last one in the NBA Play-In Tournament.
The Atlanta Hawks announced that point guard Trae Young is making progress in his recovery from finger surgery. The three-time NBA All-Star needed surgery
According to Grant Afseth of NBA Analysis Network, the Atlanta Hawks could trade center Clint Capela this offseason. The Hawks want to expand Onyeka Okongwu‘s role moving forward. “Capela will earn $22.3 million on an expiring salary during the 2024-25 season,” Afseth wrote.
Today, the Atlanta Hawks announced starting forward Jalen Johnson will miss at least one week of action. According to their team injury update, Johnson suffered a right ankle injury that forced him to leave Monday’s 105-136 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Atlanta Hawks are in Phoenix for a matchup with the Suns tonight and ahead of the game, Atlanta released important injury updates on former first-round picks Kobe Bufkin, AJ Griffin, and Jalen Johnson: "Guard Kobe Bufkin was re-evaluated on Tuesday at the Emory Sports Medicine Complex.
The NBA season is winding down and there are only a few more weeks left in the regular season. Then the NBA play-tournament will determine the final seeding for the NBA playoffs and the race for the title will be on. Some teams though are looking ahead to the offseason and the chance to reshape their roster.