“How can you not love this team? They’re so selfless.”
Bob Rathbun, long-time television voice of the Atlanta Hawks, uttered those words after one of countless highlights from the 2014-2015 NBA season in which Kyle Korver dropped a behind-the-back pass to DeMarre Carroll for a layup on the fast break.
The 2014-15 Hawks were known for that kind of play, with Korver flipping the script in this instance as the usual beneficiary of fantastic ball movement to free up his long-range shooting. In fact, any reference to “teamwork” as a prompt for NBA writing — i.