November 29 – Ryan Cameron, actor, comedian, radio personality and public address announcer for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks.
He also served as a speaker for the Atlanta Hawks Read to Achieve program that reached 122 schools and 61,000 students.
The Hawks arrived in 1968, even though Omni Coliseum, the city's basketball arena, did not open until 1972.
The first basketball game in the arena was a preseason NBA basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks.
Ike has performed voice-over work for various companies such as the Atlanta Hawks, the Georgia Lottery, McDonald's, Publix, American Airlines, and Cadillac.
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Dick Ricketts from Duquesne University was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Hawks.
The Portland Trail Blazers, who acquired the Atlanta Hawks' second pick, selected Maurice Lucas and Moses Malone with signing price of $ 300,000 and $ 350,000 respectively.
Former Wildcat Jack "Goose" Givens, who later played for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, has said that UK fans are generally more interested and informed than the typical NBA fan.
That moniker, however, has no real connection to games played between the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Bobcats, as these two franchises regrettably have no real rivalry; the Hawks to some extent were rivals of the Charlotte Hornets from 1988–2002, before the team moved to New Orleans (the New Orleans team is now known as the Pelicans, the current Charlotte teams is expected to assume the Hornets nickname in 2014).
In preseason play, on September 23, 1972, the Colonels hosted the NBA's Atlanta Hawks for an exhibition game in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Some of the individuals Randy worked with included Coach Bobby Bowden of Florida State University, Dominique Wilkins of the University of Georgia and Atlanta Hawks and defensive great Ted Roof from Georgia Tech who now is the Defensive Coordinator at Randy's alma mater.
The Phantom Buzzer Game is the unofficial name of a National Basketball Association game between the Chicago Bulls and the Atlanta Hawks on November 6, 1969 at Chicago Stadium.