Remember last year’s lengthy NBA playoff run by the Atlanta Hawks under then interim coach Nate McMillan?
Remember how that team had been given up for dead in March, then somehow reached the Eastern Conference finals before falling to the eventual world champion Milwaukee Bucks?
Could history repeat? Could it even surpass last year’s surprising postseason success?
We begin to find that out Wednesday night when the Hawks’ whole season is on the line as they host the Charlotte Hornets in the play-in game. Win and they’ll meet the loser of Tuesday night’s Brooklyn-Cleveland play-in game on Friday night. Win that one and they’re in the main playoff draw facing top East Division seed Miami in a best-of-seven series.
And should they lose?