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1996-97 Atlanta Hawks Roster and Statistics

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56-26, Finished 2nd in NBA Central Division (Game Results)
NBA Season Summary

Scored 94.8 points per game, Allowed 89.4 points per game (Pythagorean W-L: 57-25)
Coached by Lenny Wilkens (56-26)

Arena: Omni Coliseum ▪ Attendance: 585,802 (27th of 29)

SRS: 5.52 (5th of 29) ▪ Pace Factor: 86.8 (27th of 29)
Offensive Rating: 108.5 (8th of 29) ▪ Defensive Rating: 102.3 (3rd of 29)

Playoffs:
Lost NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (4-1) versus Chicago Bulls
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-2) versus Detroit Pistons

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1996-97 Roster and Statistics ▪ Schedule ▪ Game Log ▪ Splits ▪ Starting Lineups

Roster

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No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Exp	College
45	Derrick Alston	F	6-11	225	August 20, 1972	2	Duquesne University
17	Jon Barry	G	6-4	195	July 25, 1969	4	Georgia Institute of Technology
10	Mookie Blaylock	G	6-0	180	March 20, 1967	7	University of Oklahoma
24	Donnie Boyce	G	6-5	196	September 2, 1973	1	University of Colorado
34	Willie Burton	F-G	6-8	210	May 26, 1968	5	University of Minnesota
33	Tyrone Corbin	G-F	6-6	210	December 31, 1962	11	DePaul University
35	Darrin Hancock	G-F	6-7	205	November 3, 1971	2	University of Kansas
44	Alan Henderson	F	6-9	235	December 2, 1972	1	Indiana University
42	Henry James	F	6-8	220	July 29, 1965	5	St. Mary's University
32	Christian Laettner	F-C	6-11	235	August 17, 1969	4	Duke University
15	Priest Lauderdale	C	7-4	325	August 31, 1973	R	Central State University
2	Anthony Miller	F	6-9	225	October 22, 1971	2	Michigan State University
55	Dikembe Mutombo	C	7-2	245	June 25, 1966	5	Georgetown University
28	Ivano Newbill	F	6-9	245	December 12, 1970	1	Georgia Institute of Technology
3	Ken Norman	F	6-8	215	September 5, 1964	9	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
5	Eldridge Recasner	G	6-3	190	December 14, 1967	2	University of Washington
8	Steve Smith	G	6-7	200	March 31, 1969	5	Michigan State University

Team and Opponent Statistics

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	G	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	PTS
Team	82	19805	2812	6307	.446	659	1834	.359	1491	1955	.763	1021	2350	3371	1557	701	427	1228	1591	7774	94.8
Opponent	82	19805	2804	6451	.435	485	1399	.347	1235	1676	.737	1045	2225	3270	1665	605	332	1267	1747	7328	89.4

Player Statistics

Totals

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Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Christian Laettner	27	82	82	3140	548	1128	.486	31	88	.352	359	440	.816	212	508	720	223	102	64	218	277	1486
2	Steve Smith	27	72	72	2818	491	1145	.429	130	388	.335	333	393	.847	90	148	238	305	62	23	176	173	1445
3	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	78	3056	501	1159	.432	221	604	.366	131	174	.753	114	299	413	463	212	20	185	141	1354
4	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	80	2973	380	721	.527	0	0		306	434	.705	268	661	929	110	49	264	186	249	1066
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	65	2305	253	600	.422	74	208	.356	86	108	.796	76	218	294	124	90	7	85	176	666
6	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	4	1207	148	350	.423	58	140	.414	51	58	.879	35	80	115	94	38	4	65	97	405
7	Henry James	31	53	15	945	125	306	.408	76	181	.420	30	36	.833	27	54	81	21	11	1	29	98	356
8	Jon Barry	27	58	8	965	100	246	.407	48	124	.387	37	46	.804	26	73	99	115	55	3	59	56	285
9	Alan Henderson	24	30	0	501	77	162	.475	0	0		45	75	.600	47	69	116	23	21	6	29	73	199
10	Willie Burton	28	24	0	380	39	116	.336	13	46	.283	57	68	.838	11	30	41	11	8	3	26	55	148
11	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	0	180	49	89	.551	0	1	.000	13	23	.565	16	27	43	12	1	9	37	39	111
12	Ivano Newbill	26	72	2	850	40	91	.440	0	0		20	52	.385	76	128	204	24	28	15	42	115	100
13	Ken Norman	32	17	0	220	27	94	.287	6	38	.158	4	12	.333	8	31	39	12	7	3	18	17	64
14	Donnie Boyce	23	22	4	154	21	63	.333	2	16	.125	11	22	.500	7	8	15	13	10	4	16	17	55
15	Darrin Hancock	25	14	0	86	13	27	.481	0	0		8	12	.667	3	10	13	7	7	1	7	6	34
16	Anthony Miller	25	1	0	14	0	5	.000	0	0		0	0		2	5	7	0	0	0	0	2	0
17	Derrick Alston	24	2	0	11	0	5	.000	0	0		0	2	.000	3	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0

Per Game

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Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Steve Smith	27	72	72	39.1	6.8	15.9	.429	1.8	5.4	.335	4.6	5.5	.847	1.3	2.1	3.3	4.2	0.9	0.3	2.4	2.4	20.1
2	Christian Laettner	27	82	82	38.3	6.7	13.8	.486	0.4	1.1	.352	4.4	5.4	.816	2.6	6.2	8.8	2.7	1.2	0.8	2.7	3.4	18.1
3	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	78	39.2	6.4	14.9	.432	2.8	7.7	.366	1.7	2.2	.753	1.5	3.8	5.3	5.9	2.7	0.3	2.4	1.8	17.4
4	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	80	37.2	4.8	9.0	.527	0.0	0.0		3.8	5.4	.705	3.4	8.3	11.6	1.4	0.6	3.3	2.3	3.1	13.3
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	65	32.9	3.6	8.6	.422	1.1	3.0	.356	1.2	1.5	.796	1.1	3.1	4.2	1.8	1.3	0.1	1.2	2.5	9.5
6	Henry James	31	53	15	17.8	2.4	5.8	.408	1.4	3.4	.420	0.6	0.7	.833	0.5	1.0	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.5	1.8	6.7
7	Alan Henderson	24	30	0	16.7	2.6	5.4	.475	0.0	0.0		1.5	2.5	.600	1.6	2.3	3.9	0.8	0.7	0.2	1.0	2.4	6.6
8	Willie Burton	28	24	0	15.8	1.6	4.8	.336	0.5	1.9	.283	2.4	2.8	.838	0.5	1.3	1.7	0.5	0.3	0.1	1.1	2.3	6.2
9	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	4	17.0	2.1	4.9	.423	0.8	2.0	.414	0.7	0.8	.879	0.5	1.1	1.6	1.3	0.5	0.1	0.9	1.4	5.7
10	Jon Barry	27	58	8	16.6	1.7	4.2	.407	0.8	2.1	.387	0.6	0.8	.804	0.4	1.3	1.7	2.0	0.9	0.1	1.0	1.0	4.9
11	Ken Norman	32	17	0	12.9	1.6	5.5	.287	0.4	2.2	.158	0.2	0.7	.333	0.5	1.8	2.3	0.7	0.4	0.2	1.1	1.0	3.8
12	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	0	5.1	1.4	2.5	.551	0.0	0.0	.000	0.4	0.7	.565	0.5	0.8	1.2	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.1	1.1	3.2
13	Donnie Boyce	23	22	4	7.0	1.0	2.9	.333	0.1	0.7	.125	0.5	1.0	.500	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.7	0.8	2.5
14	Darrin Hancock	25	14	0	6.1	0.9	1.9	.481	0.0	0.0		0.6	0.9	.667	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.5	0.4	2.4
15	Ivano Newbill	26	72	2	11.8	0.6	1.3	.440	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.7	.385	1.1	1.8	2.8	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	1.6	1.4
16	Anthony Miller	25	1	0	14.0	0.0	5.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		2.0	5.0	7.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0
17	Derrick Alston	24	2	0	5.5	0.0	2.5	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	1.5	0.5	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Per 36 Minutes

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Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	0	180	9.8	17.8	.551	0.0	0.2	.000	2.6	4.6	.565	3.2	5.4	8.6	2.4	0.2	1.8	7.4	7.8	22.2
2	Steve Smith	27	72	72	2818	6.3	14.6	.429	1.7	5.0	.335	4.3	5.0	.847	1.1	1.9	3.0	3.9	0.8	0.3	2.2	2.2	18.5
3	Christian Laettner	27	82	82	3140	6.3	12.9	.486	0.4	1.0	.352	4.1	5.0	.816	2.4	5.8	8.3	2.6	1.2	0.7	2.5	3.2	17.0
4	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	78	3056	5.9	13.7	.432	2.6	7.1	.366	1.5	2.0	.753	1.3	3.5	4.9	5.5	2.5	0.2	2.2	1.7	16.0
5	Alan Henderson	24	30	0	501	5.5	11.6	.475	0.0	0.0		3.2	5.4	.600	3.4	5.0	8.3	1.7	1.5	0.4	2.1	5.2	14.3
6	Darrin Hancock	25	14	0	86	5.4	11.3	.481	0.0	0.0		3.3	5.0	.667	1.3	4.2	5.4	2.9	2.9	0.4	2.9	2.5	14.2
7	Willie Burton	28	24	0	380	3.7	11.0	.336	1.2	4.4	.283	5.4	6.4	.838	1.0	2.8	3.9	1.0	0.8	0.3	2.5	5.2	14.0
8	Henry James	31	53	15	945	4.8	11.7	.408	2.9	6.9	.420	1.1	1.4	.833	1.0	2.1	3.1	0.8	0.4	0.0	1.1	3.7	13.6
9	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	80	2973	4.6	8.7	.527	0.0	0.0		3.7	5.3	.705	3.2	8.0	11.2	1.3	0.6	3.2	2.3	3.0	12.9
10	Donnie Boyce	23	22	4	154	4.9	14.7	.333	0.5	3.7	.125	2.6	5.1	.500	1.6	1.9	3.5	3.0	2.3	0.9	3.7	4.0	12.9
11	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	4	1207	4.4	10.4	.423	1.7	4.2	.414	1.5	1.7	.879	1.0	2.4	3.4	2.8	1.1	0.1	1.9	2.9	12.1
12	Jon Barry	27	58	8	965	3.7	9.2	.407	1.8	4.6	.387	1.4	1.7	.804	1.0	2.7	3.7	4.3	2.1	0.1	2.2	2.1	10.6
13	Ken Norman	32	17	0	220	4.4	15.4	.287	1.0	6.2	.158	0.7	2.0	.333	1.3	5.1	6.4	2.0	1.1	0.5	2.9	2.8	10.5
14	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	65	2305	4.0	9.4	.422	1.2	3.2	.356	1.3	1.7	.796	1.2	3.4	4.6	1.9	1.4	0.1	1.3	2.7	10.4
15	Ivano Newbill	26	72	2	850	1.7	3.9	.440	0.0	0.0		0.8	2.2	.385	3.2	5.4	8.6	1.0	1.2	0.6	1.8	4.9	4.2
16	Anthony Miller	25	1	0	14	0.0	12.9	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		5.1	12.9	18.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.1	0.0
17	Derrick Alston	24	2	0	11	0.0	16.4	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	6.5	.000	9.8	3.3	13.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Advanced

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Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS
1	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	3056	20.4	.548	.528	4.6	11.4	8.1	27.7	3.8	0.5	13.0	21.9	115	100	6.7	5.4	12.1
2	Christian Laettner	27	82	3140	19.1	.562	.500	8.2	18.9	13.7	13.3	1.8	1.6	14.2	23.1	112	101	5.9	5.2	11.2
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	2973	19.0	.584	.527	11.0	25.9	18.6	6.4	0.9	7.0	16.9	17.4	113	97	4.5	6.4	10.9
4	Steve Smith	27	72	2818	17.4	.548	.486	3.9	6.1	5.0	20.2	1.2	0.6	11.8	25.0	114	108	6.2	2.5	8.7
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	2305	11.0	.514	.483	4.0	11.0	7.6	9.0	2.2	0.2	11.6	15.0	107	104	1.8	3.0	4.8
6	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	1207	11.5	.539	.506	3.5	7.7	5.7	13.3	1.7	0.3	14.8	17.2	108	106	1.1	1.3	2.4
7	Jon Barry	27	58	965	13.2	.535	.504	3.3	8.8	6.1	19.7	3.2	0.2	18.1	15.9	108	103	0.9	1.4	2.3
8	Henry James	31	53	945	10.2	.553	.533	3.5	6.7	5.1	3.8	0.6	0.1	8.3	17.5	113	109	1.3	0.7	2.0
9	Alan Henderson	24	30	501	15.0	.510	.475	11.4	16.1	13.8	8.3	2.3	0.9	12.9	21.1	105	101	0.4	0.8	1.3
10	Ivano Newbill	26	72	850	6.7	.439	.440	10.9	17.6	14.3	4.3	1.8	1.4	26.9	8.7	91	101	-0.4	1.4	1.0
11	Willie Burton	28	24	380	8.6	.507	.392	3.5	9.2	6.4	4.8	1.2	0.6	15.1	21.3	100	106	0.1	0.4	0.5
12	Darrin Hancock	25	14	86	16.2	.527	.481	4.3	13.6	9.0	14.6	4.5	0.9	17.8	21.5	100	98	0.0	0.2	0.2
13	Anthony Miller	25	1	14	-4.6	.000	.000	17.4	41.7	29.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.9	30	97	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
14	Derrick Alston	24	2	11	-9.0	.000	.000	33.3	10.6	21.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	25.2	35	109	-0.1	0.0	-0.1
15	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	180	13.6	.560	.551	10.8	17.5	14.2	15.2	0.3	3.9	27.2	35.7	86	103	-0.4	0.3	-0.2
16	Donnie Boyce	23	22	154	7.0	.378	.349	5.5	6.1	5.8	14.7	3.6	2.0	18.0	27.2	77	102	-0.5	0.2	-0.3
17	Ken Norman	32	17	220	3.1	.322	.319	4.4	16.4	10.6	9.3	1.8	1.1	15.3	25.2	69	102	-0.9	0.3	-0.6

Playoffs

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			Totals																Shooting			Per Game
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	FG	FGA	3P	3PA	FT	FTA	ORB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS	FG%	3P%	FT%	MP	PTS	TRB	AST
1	Steve Smith	27	10	421	55	139	18	55	61	74	12	39	17	4	1	28	38	189	.396	.327	.824	42.1	18.9	3.9	1.7
2	Christian Laettner	27	10	403	62	153	4	21	48	56	19	72	26	10	8	31	32	176	.405	.190	.857	40.3	17.6	7.2	2.6
3	Mookie Blaylock	29	10	441	61	154	28	85	14	21	12	70	65	21	2	35	15	164	.396	.329	.667	44.1	16.4	7.0	6.5
4	Dikembe Mutombo	30	10	415	54	86	0	0	46	64	37	123	13	1	26	20	30	154	.628		.719	41.5	15.4	12.3	1.3
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	10	364	42	92	13	37	9	9	12	43	20	4	2	14	29	106	.457	.351	1.000	36.4	10.6	4.3	2.0
6	Alan Henderson	24	10	136	19	34	0	0	20	26	11	33	0	1	3	7	26	58	.559		.769	13.6	5.8	3.3	0.0
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	10	121	11	26	4	11	5	8	3	11	9	2	0	7	9	31	.423	.364	.625	12.1	3.1	1.1	0.9
8	Henry James	31	8	45	3	13	2	6	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	4	12	8	.231	.333		5.6	1.0	0.1	0.3
9	Darrin Hancock	25	6	33	2	5	0	1	0	3	2	5	1	1	1	1	5	4	.400	.000	.000	5.5	0.7	0.8	0.2
10	Ivano Newbill	26	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0				1.7	0.0	0.3	0.3
11	Priest Lauderdale	23	3	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	.000			2.3	0.0	0.7	0.0
12	Jon Barry	27	2	9	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000		4.5	0.0	0.0	0.0

Playoffs Advanced

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Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	eFG%	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%	ORtg	DRtg	OWS	DWS	WS
1	Steve Smith	27	10	421	12.3	.551	.460	3.7	7.3	5.7	7.9	0.5	0.2	14.0	23.1	107	114	0.5	0.1	0.6
2	Christian Laettner	27	10	403	14.6	.495	.418	6.1	15.1	10.9	13.2	1.4	1.6	14.9	25.3	100	108	0.1	0.4	0.4
3	Mookie Blaylock	29	10	441	16.0	.502	.487	3.5	15.1	9.7	29.2	2.7	0.4	17.7	21.9	102	106	0.2	0.5	0.7
4	Dikembe Mutombo	30	10	415	21.1	.674	.628	11.6	23.7	18.1	6.1	0.1	5.0	14.9	15.8	128	105	1.2	0.5	1.7
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	10	364	10.7	.552	.527	4.3	9.8	7.2	10.4	0.6	0.4	12.7	14.7	111	112	0.4	0.2	0.5
6	Alan Henderson	24	10	136	16.3	.638	.559	10.5	18.5	14.8	0.0	0.4	1.8	13.3	18.8	122	108	0.3	0.1	0.5
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	10	121	8.2	.525	.500	3.2	7.6	5.5	13.5	0.9	0.0	19.2	14.7	100	113	0.0	0.0	0.1
8	Henry James	31	8	45	-6.8	.308	.308	2.9	0.0	1.4	7.7	1.3	0.0	23.5	18.4	60	114	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
9	Darrin Hancock	25	6	33	3.7	.316	.400	7.9	10.4	9.2	5.2	1.7	2.4	13.7	10.8	75	108	-0.1	0.0	0.0
10	Priest Lauderdale	23	3	7	-37.3	.000	.000	18.6	16.4	17.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	41.8	11	111	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
11	Ivano Newbill	26	3	5	-8.5			0.0	22.9	12.2	31.1	0.0	0.0	100.0	9.8	41	108	0.0	0.0	0.0
12	Jon Barry	27	2	9	-13.8	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.3	0	118	-0.1	0.0	-0.1

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Rk	Player	Salary
1	Dikembe Mutombo	$8,013,000
2	Steve Smith	$4,500,000
3	Christian Laettner	$4,500,000
4	Ken Norman	$2,869,000
5	Mookie Blaylock	$2,800,000
6	Alan Henderson	$910,000
7	Priest Lauderdale	$548,000
8	Ivano Newbill	$247,500
9	Eldridge Recasner	$247,500
10	Anthony Miller	*$247,500
11	Derrick Alston	*$247,500
12	Darrin Hancock	$247,500
13	Tyrone Corbin	$247,500
14	Willie Burton	$247,500
15	Donnie Boyce	$247,500
16	Jon Barry	$247,500
17	Henry James	$181,100

Estimated salaries are marked with an asterisk (*)

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