Five Former Atlanta Hawks Who Would Help Current Team
By Dallin Duffy
Pete Maravich
“Pistol” Pete Maravich may be more widely remembered as a member of the Jazz, but he did spend four seasons with the Hawks after they drafted him third overall in the 1970 draft.
Two of those seasons, he made the All-Star team, averaging over 26 points per game in each of his final two years with the team.
Despite retiring one year after the NBA added the three-point line, Maravich had a reputation of firing from deep, possessing range, not unlike Trae Young’s today. He retired with 15,948 points and it’d be interesting to see how much more that would be if he played his entire career with an arch.
He was more than just long hair and a jump shot, as Pistol had great ball-handling skills as well. The flashy passer averaged 5.6 assists per game during his time in Atlanta and with long-form post-play nearly erased from the modern NBA, those numbers would easily be higher today.
Maravich helped redefine the point guard position to what it is today, and he might have found even more success in this era.