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1996-97 Atlanta Hawks Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 56-26, Finished 2nd in NBA Central Division

Coach: Lenny Wilkens (56-26)

Executive: Pete Babcock

PTS/G: 94.8 (23rd of 29) Opp PTS/G: 89.4 (4th of 29)

SRS: 5.51 (5th of 29) Pace: 86.8 (27th of 29)

Off Rtg: 108.5 (8th of 29) Def Rtg: 102.3 (3rd of 29) Net Rtg: +6.2 (4th of 29)

Expected W-L: 57-25 (5th of 29)

Preseason Odds: Championship +2000, Over-Under 49.0

Arena: Omni Coliseum Attendance: 549,414 (27th of 29)

NBA 1997 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-2) versus Detroit Pistons (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (1-4) versus Chicago Bulls (Series Stats)

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

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

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

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Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	78	39.2	6.4	14.9	.432	2.8	7.7	.366	3.6	7.1	.505	.528	1.7	2.2	.753	1.5	3.8	5.3	5.9	2.7	0.3	2.4	1.8	17.4
2	Steve Smith	27	72	72	39.1	6.8	15.9	.429	1.8	5.4	.335	5.0	10.5	.477	.486	4.6	5.5	.847	1.3	2.1	3.3	4.2	0.9	0.3	2.4	2.4	20.1
3	Christian Laettner	27	82	82	38.3	6.7	13.8	.486	0.4	1.1	.352	6.3	12.7	.497	.500	4.4	5.4	.816	2.6	6.2	8.8	2.7	1.2	0.8	2.7	3.4	18.1
4	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	80	37.2	4.8	9.0	.527	0.0	0.0		4.8	9.0	.527	.527	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	2.6	5.6	.457	.483	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	0.9	2.4	.392	.533	0.6	0.7	.833	0.5	1.0	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.5	1.8	6.7
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	4	17.0	2.1	4.9	.423	0.8	2.0	.414	1.3	3.0	.429	.506	0.7	0.8	.879	0.5	1.1	1.6	1.3	0.5	0.1	0.9	1.4	5.7
8	Alan Henderson	24	30	0	16.7	2.6	5.4	.475	0.0	0.0		2.6	5.4	.475	.475	1.5	2.5	.600	1.6	2.3	3.9	0.8	0.7	0.2	1.0	2.4	6.6
9	Jon Barry	27	58	8	16.6	1.7	4.2	.407	0.8	2.1	.387	0.9	2.1	.426	.504	0.6	0.8	.804	0.4	1.3	1.7	2.0	0.9	0.1	1.0	1.0	4.9
10	Willie Burton	28	24	2	15.8	1.6	4.8	.336	0.5	1.9	.283	1.1	2.9	.371	.392	2.4	2.8	.838	0.5	1.3	1.7	0.5	0.3	0.1	1.1	2.3	6.2
11	Anthony Miller	25	1	0	14.0	0.0	5.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	5.0	.000	.000	0.0	0.0		2.0	5.0	7.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0
12	Ken Norman	32	17	0	12.9	1.6	5.5	.287	0.4	2.2	.158	1.2	3.3	.375	.319	0.2	0.7	.333	0.5	1.8	2.3	0.7	0.4	0.2	1.1	1.0	3.8
13	Ivano Newbill	26	72	2	11.8	0.6	1.3	.440	0.0	0.0		0.6	1.3	.440	.440	0.3	0.7	.385	1.1	1.8	2.8	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	1.6	1.4
14	Donnie Boyce	23	22	2	7.0	1.0	2.9	.333	0.1	0.7	.125	0.9	2.1	.404	.349	0.5	1.0	.500	0.3	0.4	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.2	0.7	0.8	2.5
15	Darrin Hancock	25	14	0	6.1	0.9	1.9	.481	0.0	0.0		0.9	1.9	.481	.481	0.6	0.9	.667	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.5	0.4	2.4
16	Derrick Alston	24	2	0	5.5	0.0	2.5	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	2.5	.000	.000	0.0	1.0	.000	1.5	0.5	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
17	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	0	5.1	1.4	2.5	.551	0.0	0.0	.000	1.4	2.5	.557	.551	0.4	0.7	.565	0.5	0.8	1.2	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.1	1.1	3.2

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Mookie Blaylock	29	10	10	44.1	6.1	15.4	.396	2.8	8.5	.329	3.3	6.9	.478	.487	1.4	2.1	.667	1.2	5.8	7.0	6.5	2.1	0.2	3.5	1.5	16.4
2	Steve Smith	27	10	10	42.1	5.5	13.9	.396	1.8	5.5	.327	3.7	8.4	.440	.460	6.1	7.4	.824	1.2	2.7	3.9	1.7	0.4	0.1	2.8	3.8	18.9
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	10	10	41.5	5.4	8.6	.628	0.0	0.0		5.4	8.6	.628	.628	4.6	6.4	.719	3.7	8.6	12.3	1.3	0.1	2.6	2.0	3.0	15.4
4	Christian Laettner	27	10	10	40.3	6.2	15.3	.405	0.4	2.1	.190	5.8	13.2	.439	.418	4.8	5.6	.857	1.9	5.3	7.2	2.6	1.0	0.8	3.1	3.2	17.6
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	10	10	36.4	4.2	9.2	.457	1.3	3.7	.351	2.9	5.5	.527	.527	0.9	0.9	1.000	1.2	3.1	4.3	2.0	0.4	0.2	1.4	2.9	10.6
6	Alan Henderson	24	10	0	13.6	1.9	3.4	.559	0.0	0.0		1.9	3.4	.559	.559	2.0	2.6	.769	1.1	2.2	3.3	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.7	2.6	5.8
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	10	0	12.1	1.1	2.6	.423	0.4	1.1	.364	0.7	1.5	.467	.500	0.5	0.8	.625	0.3	0.8	1.1	0.9	0.2	0.0	0.7	0.9	3.1
8	Henry James	31	8	0	5.6	0.4	1.6	.231	0.3	0.8	.333	0.1	0.9	.143	.308	0.0	0.0		0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.0
9	Darrin Hancock	25	6	0	5.5	0.3	0.8	.400	0.0	0.2	.000	0.3	0.7	.500	.400	0.0	0.5	.000	0.3	0.5	0.8	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.8	0.7
10	Jon Barry	27	2	0	4.5	0.0	1.5	.000	0.0	1.5	.000	0.0	0.0		.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
11	Priest Lauderdale	23	3	0	2.3	0.0	1.0	.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	1.0	.000	.000	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.3	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.3	0.0
12	Ivano Newbill	26	3	0	1.7	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			0.0	0.0		0.0	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.7	0.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	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	517	1040	.497	.500	359	440	.816	212	508	720	223	102	64	218	277	1486
2	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	78	3056	501	1159	.432	221	604	.366	280	555	.505	.528	131	174	.753	114	299	413	463	212	20	185	141	1354
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	80	2973	380	721	.527	0	0		380	721	.527	.527	306	434	.705	268	661	929	110	49	264	186	249	1066
4	Steve Smith	27	72	72	2818	491	1145	.429	130	388	.335	361	757	.477	.486	333	393	.847	90	148	238	305	62	23	176	173	1445
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	65	2305	253	600	.422	74	208	.356	179	392	.457	.483	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	90	210	.429	.506	51	58	.879	35	80	115	94	38	4	65	97	405
7	Jon Barry	27	58	8	965	100	246	.407	48	124	.387	52	122	.426	.504	37	46	.804	26	73	99	115	55	3	59	56	285
8	Henry James	31	53	15	945	125	306	.408	76	181	.420	49	125	.392	.533	30	36	.833	27	54	81	21	11	1	29	98	356
9	Ivano Newbill	26	72	2	850	40	91	.440	0	0		40	91	.440	.440	20	52	.385	76	128	204	24	28	15	42	115	100
10	Alan Henderson	24	30	0	501	77	162	.475	0	0		77	162	.475	.475	45	75	.600	47	69	116	23	21	6	29	73	199
11	Willie Burton	28	24	2	380	39	116	.336	13	46	.283	26	70	.371	.392	57	68	.838	11	30	41	11	8	3	26	55	148
12	Ken Norman	32	17	0	220	27	94	.287	6	38	.158	21	56	.375	.319	4	12	.333	8	31	39	12	7	3	18	17	64
13	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	0	180	49	89	.551	0	1	.000	49	88	.557	.551	13	23	.565	16	27	43	12	1	9	37	39	111
14	Donnie Boyce	23	22	2	154	21	63	.333	2	16	.125	19	47	.404	.349	11	22	.500	7	8	15	13	10	4	16	17	55
15	Darrin Hancock	25	14	0	86	13	27	.481	0	0		13	27	.481	.481	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	5	.000	.000	0	0		2	5	7	0	0	0	0	2	0
17	Derrick Alston	24	2	0	11	0	5	.000	0	0		0	5	.000	.000	0	2	.000	3	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
			82		19805	2812	6307	.446	659	1834	.359	2153	4473	.481	.498	1491	1955	.763	1021	2350	3371	1557	701	427	1228	1591	7774

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Mookie Blaylock	29	10	10	441	61	154	.396	28	85	.329	33	69	.478	.487	14	21	.667	12	58	70	65	21	2	35	15	164
2	Steve Smith	27	10	10	421	55	139	.396	18	55	.327	37	84	.440	.460	61	74	.824	12	27	39	17	4	1	28	38	189
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	10	10	415	54	86	.628	0	0		54	86	.628	.628	46	64	.719	37	86	123	13	1	26	20	30	154
4	Christian Laettner	27	10	10	403	62	153	.405	4	21	.190	58	132	.439	.418	48	56	.857	19	53	72	26	10	8	31	32	176
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	10	10	364	42	92	.457	13	37	.351	29	55	.527	.527	9	9	1.000	12	31	43	20	4	2	14	29	106
6	Alan Henderson	24	10	0	136	19	34	.559	0	0		19	34	.559	.559	20	26	.769	11	22	33	0	1	3	7	26	58
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	10	0	121	11	26	.423	4	11	.364	7	15	.467	.500	5	8	.625	3	8	11	9	2	0	7	9	31
8	Henry James	31	8	0	45	3	13	.231	2	6	.333	1	7	.143	.308	0	0		1	0	1	2	1	0	4	12	8
9	Darrin Hancock	25	6	0	33	2	5	.400	0	1	.000	2	4	.500	.400	0	3	.000	2	3	5	1	1	1	1	5	4
10	Jon Barry	27	2	0	9	0	3	.000	0	3	.000	0	0		.000	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Priest Lauderdale	23	3	0	7	0	3	.000	0	0		0	3	.000	.000	0	0		1	1	2	0	0	0	3	1	0
12	Ivano Newbill	26	3	0	5	0	0		0	0		0	0			0	0		0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Christian Laettner	27	82	3140	19.1	.562	.078	.390	8.2	18.9	13.7	13.3	1.8	1.6	14.2	23.1		6.1	5.4	11.6	.177		1.4	1.0	2.5	3.5
2	Mookie Blaylock	29	78	3056	20.4	.548	.521	.150	4.6	11.4	8.1	27.7	3.8	0.5	13.0	21.9		7.0	5.6	12.5	.197		4.3	2.4	6.8	6.8
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	80	2973	19.0	.584	.000	.602	11.0	25.9	18.6	6.4	0.9	7.0	16.9	17.4		4.7	6.6	11.3	.183		0.3	2.4	2.6	3.5
4	Steve Smith	27	72	2818	17.4	.548	.339	.343	3.9	6.1	5.0	20.2	1.2	0.6	11.8	25.0		6.5	2.6	9.1	.154		2.7	-1.0	1.7	2.7
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	70	2305	11.0	.514	.347	.180	4.0	11.0	7.6	9.0	2.2	0.2	11.6	15.0		1.8	3.1	5.0	.104		-1.4	1.0	-0.4	1.0
6	Eldridge Recasner	29	71	1207	11.5	.539	.400	.166	3.5	7.7	5.7	13.3	1.7	0.3	14.8	17.2		1.2	1.3	2.5	.099		-0.9	0.2	-0.7	0.4
7	Jon Barry	27	58	965	13.2	.535	.504	.187	3.3	8.8	6.1	19.7	3.2	0.2	18.1	15.9		0.9	1.5	2.4	.118		-0.5	1.8	1.3	0.8
8	Henry James	31	53	945	10.2	.553	.592	.118	3.5	6.7	5.1	3.8	0.6	0.1	8.3	17.5		1.3	0.7	2.0	.103		-0.4	-1.7	-2.1	-0.1
9	Ivano Newbill	26	72	850	6.7	.439	.000	.571	10.9	17.6	14.3	4.3	1.8	1.4	26.9	8.7		-0.4	1.4	1.1	.060		-4.5	1.1	-3.4	-0.3
10	Alan Henderson	24	30	501	15.0	.510	.000	.463	11.4	16.1	13.8	8.3	2.3	0.9	12.9	21.1		0.5	0.9	1.3	.126		-2.3	0.0	-2.4	0.0
11	Willie Burton	28	24	380	8.6	.507	.397	.586	3.5	9.2	6.4	4.8	1.2	0.6	15.1	21.3		0.1	0.4	0.5	.060		-4.2	-0.5	-4.7	-0.3
12	Ken Norman	32	17	220	3.1	.322	.404	.128	4.4	16.4	10.6	9.3	1.8	1.1	15.3	25.2		-0.9	0.3	-0.6	-0.129		-7.8	-1.4	-9.2	-0.4
13	Priest Lauderdale	23	35	180	13.6	.560	.011	.258	10.8	17.5	14.2	15.2	0.3	3.9	27.2	35.7		-0.5	0.3	-0.2	-0.048		-8.0	-0.9	-8.9	-0.3
14	Donnie Boyce	23	22	154	7.0	.378	.254	.349	5.5	6.1	5.8	14.7	3.6	2.0	18.0	27.2		-0.5	0.3	-0.3	-0.081		-6.8	0.5	-6.3	-0.2
15	Darrin Hancock	25	14	86	16.2	.527	.000	.444	4.3	13.6	9.0	14.6	4.5	0.9	17.8	21.5		0.0	0.2	0.2	.113		-2.8	1.5	-1.2	0.0
16	Anthony Miller	25	1	14	-4.6	.000	.000	.000	17.4	41.7	29.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.9		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.195		-11.1	-4.8	-15.9	0.0
17	Derrick Alston	24	2	11	-9.0	.000	.000	.400	33.3	10.6	21.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	25.2		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.415		-9.5	-12.1	-21.6	-0.1

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Mookie Blaylock	29	10	441	16.0	.502	.552	.136	3.5	15.1	9.7	29.2	2.7	0.4	17.7	21.9		0.2	0.5	0.7	.079		2.7	2.1	4.8	0.8
2	Steve Smith	27	10	421	12.3	.551	.396	.532	3.7	7.3	5.7	7.9	0.5	0.2	14.0	23.1		0.5	0.1	0.6	.070		0.3	-1.0	-0.7	0.1
3	Dikembe Mutombo	30	10	415	21.1	.674	.000	.744	11.6	23.7	18.1	6.1	0.1	5.0	14.9	15.8		1.2	0.5	1.8	.204		3.5	2.8	6.3	0.9
4	Christian Laettner	27	10	403	14.6	.495	.137	.366	6.1	15.1	10.9	13.2	1.4	1.6	14.9	25.3		0.1	0.4	0.5	.054		0.2	0.9	1.1	0.3
5	Tyrone Corbin	34	10	364	10.7	.552	.402	.098	4.3	9.8	7.2	10.4	0.6	0.4	12.7	14.7		0.4	0.2	0.6	.074		0.4	1.1	1.5	0.3
6	Alan Henderson	24	10	136	16.3	.638	.000	.765	10.5	18.5	14.8	0.0	0.4	1.8	13.3	18.8		0.4	0.1	0.5	.170		-0.5	1.6	1.1	0.1
7	Eldridge Recasner	29	10	121	8.2	.525	.423	.308	3.2	7.6	5.5	13.5	0.9	0.0	19.2	14.7		0.0	0.0	0.1	.026		-0.9	0.8	-0.1	0.1
8	Henry James	31	8	45	-6.8	.308	.462	.000	2.9	0.0	1.4	7.7	1.3	0.0	23.5	18.4		-0.2	0.0	-0.2	-0.190		-11.6	-0.9	-12.5	-0.1
9	Darrin Hancock	25	6	33	3.7	.316	.200	.600	7.9	10.4	9.2	5.2	1.7	2.4	13.7	10.8		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.034		-4.7	2.1	-2.6	0.0
10	Jon Barry	27	2	9	-13.8	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.3		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.381		-12.8	-5.3	-18.1	0.0
11	Priest Lauderdale	23	3	7	-37.3	.000	.000	.000	18.6	16.4	17.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	41.8		-0.2	0.0	-0.2	-1.070		-37.3	-11.9	-49.3	-0.1
12	Ivano Newbill	26	3	5	-8.5				0.0	22.9	12.2	31.1	0.0	0.0	100.0	9.8		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.186		-13.6	6.1	-7.4	0.0

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