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The Hawks hold onto a 125-124 win over the Washington Wizards to move to 38-31 on the season. The Wizards get a triple double from Russell Westbrook, 28 points, 13 rebounds, and 21 assists, but Westbrook cannot bury the final shot in the Hawks win.

Trae Young and John Collins combine for 64 points, 14 boards, 9 assists, and 2 blocks and Bogdan Bogdanovic continues his hot shooting with 25 points on 8/17 shooting (7/12 from deep).

The two teams will play again in Atlanta on Wednesday.

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A slow start in the first half, and some poor defense, puts the Hawks in a 14 point hole to start the 2nd. The Hawks fight back but ultimately fall 126-133 to the Pacers.

Caris LeVert, Domatas Sabonis, and TJ McConnell led the way for the Pacers. LeVert and Sabonis scored 31 and 30 respectively while TJ had four steals and 19 points off the bench.

Trae had 30 and Bogdanovic had 28 but the Hawks could never get over the hump in the 4th quarter. The Hawks fall to 37-31 and now get three days off before facing the Wizards at State Farm Arena.

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The Hawks ride their bench to a 135-103 win over the Phoenix Suns to move to 37-30 on the season. Danilo Gallinari and Lou Williams both have 16 points and Onyeka Okongwu has his best performance as a Hawk with 14 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 blocks.

Coming off an overtime win in Cleveland, the Sun played a tough first half. A 16-0 run to start the fourth quarter would doom the Suns. Devin Booker had 30 points on 11/20 shooting and Mikal Bridges had 18 points.

The Hawks play at the Pacers next.

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The Hawks ride hot shooting from deep, 20 of 41, to beat the Blazers 123-114 in Atlanta.

The Hawks got flame throwing performances from Bogdan Bogdanovic, 25 points and 7 three pointers, and Danilo Gallinari, 28 points and 7 threes off the bench. The Blazers countered with Damian Lillards scoring 33 points and CJ McCollum dropping 20, but it wasn't enough. The Hawks out scored the Blazers 45-33 from the bench.

Carmelo Anthony moved to 10th on the NBA's All Time Scoring list, chipping in 14 points to raise his career total to 27,318.

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The Hawks move to 35-30, and clinch a spot in the play-in tournament at least, with a 108-97 win over the Bulls at State Farm Arena. Trae Young powers the Hawks in the first half on the way to a 33 point and 7 assist night as Clint Capela has a monster 2nd half and finishes with 20 points and 11 rebounds.
The Bull were without Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic, but used a 37 point 2nd quarter to take a 9 point lead into the half. They would only score 34 in the 2nd half. Rookie Patrick Williams scored 19 points and noted Hawk hater Thaddeus Young had 20 points, 7 rebounds, and 9 assists.

The Hawks face the Portland Trailblazers on Monday night.

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The Hawks get Trae Young back from injury and Trae has 32 points and 4 assists in 28 minutes. Unfortunately for the Hawks the 76ers control the paint, outscoring the Hawks 68 to 42 from close range. Philly would go on to win 126-104. Dwight Howard comes off the Philadelphia bench to score 19 points and grab 11 rebounds as the 76ers take a 2 game sweep of the Hawks.

The Hawks get blown out 83-127 in Philadelphia. The Hawks are without Trae Young, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Kevin Huerter, Tony Snell, DeAndre Hunter, and Cam Reddish and the 76ers take advantage. The Philly onslaught in transition began in the first quarter and continued the whole game. 

The Hawks face the 76ers again on Friday.

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Ben Ladner, @bladner_  on Twitter , joins Forrest to talk about the Hawks final 10 games, the play of the team so far, and they try and look forward at what the playoffs could hold.

You can hear Ben on his podcast, Read and React, here.
Ben also writes for FanSided which you can read here.

The Hawks get beat in Detroit 86-100. Without Trae or Lou Williams, the Hawks never find their rhythm against the Pistons. The Pistons physical play disrupts the Hawks offense and strong scoring off the bench, Frank Jackson - 18 points and Hamidou Diallo -14 points, powers the Pistons to the double digit victory.

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My conversation with Adnan Ikic, writer at the Falcoholic and leader of the 6th Man section at State Farm Arena. We talk about the Hawks season thus far, expectations going into the playoffs, and the coaching change from Lloyd Pierce to Nate McMillan. You can follow Adnan on Twitter at @SayWhichWay.

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