Who Are The Atlanta Hawks Quotation Mark Legends?

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Atlanta Hawks Quotation Mark Legends: Third-Team

PG: José Calderón

José Calderón carved out a solid NBA career as an undrafted international prospect, playing 14 seasons in the league for seven teams. In 2017, Calderón started the year with the lowly Lakers, eventually being waived for he could join a playoff team.

He reached an agreement to join the Warriors who were already heavy title favorites, but when Kevin Durant went down with an injury, Golden State decided they wanted to sure up their forward position instead and waived Calderón a day after signing him.

Two days later he signed with the Hawks and played the final 17 games of the season for the team. He served as Dennis Schröder‘s backup in the Hawks’ 2017 playoff run, averaging 12.5 minutes per game in the team’s first-round defeat to the Wizards.

In total, José Calderón played 23 games with the Hawks, averaging 3.6 points and 2.2 assists.

SG: Devin Harris

At one point in the late 2000s, Devin Harris looked like a future star, making an All-Star team in ’09 by averaging 21.3 points per game with the Nets.

He was one of the headliners of the trade that sent him to Utah and Deron Williams to Brooklyn, but his play dropped off once he got to the Jazz. He was flipped to the Hawks in exchange for Marvin Wiliams in 2012.

Harris spent just one season with the Hawks, appearing in 58 games and starting 34. Unfortunately, he looked more like he did with the Jazz than he did as a Net, shooting 43 percent from the field and 33 percent from three en route to averaging a mere 9.9 points per game in his lone season in Atlanta.

SF: Chandler Parsons

Chandler Parsons has been a punchline for so long that people forget just how good he was before injuries derailed his career. Parsons’ breakout seasons came in 2013 and 2014 when he averaged 15.5 then 16.6 points per game as a Rocket.

He then had two solid seasons in Dallas before signing his infamous mega-deal with the Grizzlies. Once in Memphis, frequent knee injuries kept him off the court for large chunks, and when he did play, he wasn’t great.

He was shipped to Atlanta in the deal that sent Solomon Hill and Miles Plumlee to Memphis, with Parsons playing just five games with the Hawks this season.

PF: Danny Manning

The return from the Clippers in the Dominique Wilkins trade, Danny Manning played just 26 games for the Hawks in 1994. The two-time All-Star had his moments in the team’s two-round playoff run, starting all 11 games and averaging 20.0 points per contest.

They eventually lost to Indiana in six despite Manning’s double-double in the final game and he signed with the Phoenix Suns that off-season.

C: Tiago Splitter

Hawks fans were excited for Tiago Splitter, who they acquired via trade from San Antonio after he proved himself to be a solid role player for the Spurs, even during the team’s 2014 championship run.

Splitter suddenly became incredibly injury prone when he joined the team, missing large chunks of both seasons as a Hawk, playing just 36 games across nearly two seasons with the team. When he did play, he was solid enough as a backup five.

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