They should be.
The 2016-17 NBA schedule was released late Thursday afternoon. Many fans get excited about Christmas Day games, games where players return to former homes, and when superstars come to their town.
For the Atlanta Hawks, only the latter of the three really concerns them nowadays. But there was one game that was left off of the Hawks’ home schedule for the 2016-17 season that shouldn’t have been, and it was the game on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The NBA gets a lot right, especially under Adam Silver’s watch. The way he handled the Clippers and Donald Sterling back in 2014 was strong, and more recently, moving the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte.