"Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)" Episode #86

I'm not from Atlanta, but I live here, and (because I live here) people who don't live here ask me, "Creek, what's Atlanta really like?"  I don't know what Atlanta is really like, but if you'd like to know what it's like for me, I invite you to sit back and enjoy another episode of "CREEKING MORE IN THE ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)"!!!

[Doleful Fandom]

In the city of Atlanta, you should probably get out to Philips Arena to see the Hawks at some point.

Look, they're not the best team in the NBA (technically speaking, they're the very worst team in the NBA), but they are in the NBA, and the NBA is one of my very favorite things.

I first became a fan of the Atlanta Hawks in those Tracy McGrady days of yesteryore.  That was back when they had Josh Smith and Joe Johnson and the team marketed itself as "The Highlight Factory".

Remember a few years ago when the Hawks won 60 games and were the #1 team in the Eastern Conference but the front office was in turmoil because some racially insensitive emails and ill-advised comments were made public?  Ever since then, the organization has been going out of its way to apologize.

If you don't mind sitting up in the rafters, tickets are not too expensive.

There are a few different ways to get good tickets to a Hawks game.

1.  Be the friend of a friend who has a friend who has a rich friend who has season tickets but doesn't always go to every game.

2.  Be personally rich somehow.

or 3.  Do what I do:  go to the games where the Hawks are playing against teams that no one is particularly excited to see.  If you're trying to get some Hawks vs. Lebron tickets, it's going to cost you two arms and a couple of legs.

But if you're going to see the Hawks vs. Sacramento, you can practically sit on the team bench for about $40.

The only sport worth watching is basketball because basketball is the only sport where people dunk on other people.  The Hawks do not have a history of being a great basketball team, but they do have a history of having players who will dunk on you.

It is appropriate to clap and cheer when someone dunks on someone.

Or when someone crosses someone up.

Or when someone is collecting buckets.

Cheering really gets the players going, it gets them hyped.

Sometimes, as I sit watching the games, I wonder what would happen if we cheered like that for other good things.  Like, what if we cheered when we spotted someone giving some food to one of those homeless guys with the handwritten signs?  Or when we saw a smoker put his spent cigarette butt in an ash can instead of just throwing it on the sidewalk?

I mean, I know we cheer for basketball game buckets, but what if we cheered for life buckets?

This is the kind of thing you think about when you're faced with the prospect of cheering for the 2017-18 Atlanta Hawks.

Sheesh.

There you have it foks, another exciting episode of "Creeking More In The ATL (with your host Nate Creekmore)"!  Be sure and come back for the next installment wherein we reminisce on all of the great players who could have been Hawks but were not.