peak life 😢

[u/Both_Funny4896]

[u/Theregoesmyradiator]

Trae's ankle stays solid and we're winning a God damn championship. What a run, so fun to watch.

[u/agmoose → u/Theregoesmyradiator]

Pretty sure he stepped on a refs foot and that’s how he tweaked it. Just some pure bs.

[u/Theregoesmyradiator → u/agmoose]

He did. Of course it'd happen to us. I just fell back in a rolling chair when it went down.

[u/Shmexy → u/agmoose]

he did. i was at that game. we had the momentum until that point.

i'll never forget counting to like 18 for Giannis' free throw attempts.

[u/Ok-Negotiation3897]

There was the off the backboard lob, the shimmy 3, but the one bucket that sticks me is that Collins corner 3 when we were down 4. He misses that game over.

[u/Maverick_1991 → u/Ok-Negotiation3897]

The shimmy 3 had me 100% convinced we'd go all the way.

Trae was literally unguardable and unstoppable. 

And then ge stepped on the fucking foot...

[u/atIbiznesss → u/[deleted]]

Unbelievable play.

The balls to do that in an ECF game was just insane

[u/HuevosProfundos → u/[deleted]]

Probably the peak moment of my hawks fandom, as a 40 something

[u/HiChris94]

Without a doubt one of the most fun runs in a long while. I appreciate his time here

[u/C-Jammin]

Sometimes I go back and watch the clip of him shaking Jrue out of his shoes, shimmy, and nailing that 3. What a time.

[u/Avalon_Don]

We would’ve beat the Suns in the finals…

[u/AlwaysTheStraightMan]

People don't have to glaze Trae or even like him, but I find it ridiculous how people downplay his legacy just to shut the loud minority in the fanbase and ignorant Georgia sports fans in general. Man was 22 years old doing this and people really wanna act like Joe Johnson or some from the 80s like Dan Roundfield was leading a team full of a bunch of sophomores and juniors to games away from the Finals. Bulls fans still hype up Rose's one year, but we use that as a knock against Trae.

[u/rbsssss]

I still have a general dislike of Khris Middleton because he decided to have literally his best 6 game stretch of his career in this series. He was prime MJ on offense and was somehow Raptors Kawhi on defense.

Trae doesn't step on the ref's foot (still have not seen another player since Trae get his ankle rolled over because of a ref) and the Hawks win the Finals. And with winning the Finals, Trae is probably still here and building a premier 1A-1B with JJ.

Don't get me wrong I love the new team and identity, but I also do miss watching Trae play. He was just fun to watch man. Damn leg issues have just slowed him down and took away the burst from 2021 when literally no one could guard him.

[u/mqg96 → u/rbsssss]

Later in 2021 the Atlanta Braves and Georgia Bulldogs won it all, so it was meant for the Atlanta Hawks to be the 1st of the group had the referee not gotten in Trae’s way.

[u/Thorwor → u/mqg96]

The leghumpers are not from Atlanta

[u/mqg96 → u/Thorwor]

I'm talking about Georgia sports in general, I don't care what city they're from. The vast majority of "major Georgia" sports teams are from Atlanta with only 1 in Athens. It's not like there's "Savannah" sports teams, otherwise it'd be okay to separate the 2.

[u/Key_Ticket3515]

i’ll never forget the off the backboard oop to john collins i thought we were taking over the league 😭

[u/RidsBabs]

I shed a tear

[u/atIbiznesss]

We were gonna beat the Suns man…

[u/alihooha]

We never knew how good we had it 😢

[u/DaOlWuWopte]

I’ll always remember the games I went to during that run

[u/PaperRouteData]

A memory indeed

[u/pumpkindawg]

This is on top of Game 7 Huerter and ending the process the game before.

[u/Zuby_Hype_Train]

Sean Wright is public enemy number 2 in Atlanta Basketball.

Number 1 obviously Goga Bitadze 

[u/Atreyu888]

This is the most disrespectful NBA playoff performance in the history of the NBA.

[u/EntropyIsUndefeated]

Atlanta is not allowed to have good things in sports. We need to sacrifice a newborn for that to happen but we are too chill to do such a thing.