Hawks fans just can’t have nice things. And that maxim has been truer for even longer than you know.
At one point this season, the Hawks were riding high off a second thrilling win in Boston this season to move to 22-19. Those good vibes have evaporated after a seven-game losing streak that saw the team’s second-best and maybe most irreplaceable player sidelined for the rest of the season on a freak injury play.
This episode is just the latest in a long line of misfortunes, blunders, and outright disastrous events — some self-inflicted, some not — that have plagued this franchise going back many, many decades.