MILWAUKEE—Some times the shots are just too enticing for the Hawks to pass up. Their opponents back off and beckon them to launch jump shots. The Hawks oblige, without regard to time, score or the quality of those shots. The Hawks didn’t exactly kick the habit on Monday at Milwaukee. They got away with it, [...]
Los Angeles businessman Alex Meruelo has reached an agreement to buy a majority ownership stake in the Atlanta Hawks, he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an exclusive weekend interview. Los Angeles businessman Alex Meruelo, the new owner of the Atlanta Hawks. A letter to Hawks fans from Bob Williams, president of the Atlanta Hawks and [...]
Los Angeles businessman Alex Meruelo recently agreed to purchase a majority interest in the Hawks and the Philips Arena operating rights from the Atlanta Spirit Group. There now will be one owner making decisions for the Hawks rather than several. But how else will Meruelo’s pending ownership of the Hawks be different than ASG’s? Circumstances [...]
If Bud Selig is right, new Hawks majority owner Alex Meruelo is the latest in a long line of successful businessmen who makes a dumb financial move by purchasing a professional sports franchise. Selig, the Major League Baseball commissioner, famously told a congressional committee in 2000 that owners no longer could count on making up [...]
By almost every measure, the Hawks were worse this season than in 2009-10. Then, surprisingly, they had better postseason results than in the franchise’s previous 12 trips to the playoffs. Because he puts more stock in the latter than the former, Hawks general manager Rick Sund said he doesn’t believe the team has peaked, even [...]