Last night the New York Knicks lost in Atlanta to the Hawks. This is not big news. If you’d told fans of either team before the season that in January the latter would win a home game versus the former, neither fan base would blink.
However, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that there really aren’t that many Hawks fans. I searched “Atlanta Hawks fans” in the system we use via SB Nation for article photos and LITERALLY got images of the Milwaukee Bucks and their fans, the Detroit Pistons and their fans, the Houston Rockets and their fans — yet no Hawks fans.