College Park Skyhawks | |
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Conference | Eastern |
League | NBA G League |
Founded | 2017 |
History | Erie BayHawks 2017–2019 College Park Skyhawks 2019–present |
Arena | Gateway Center Arena |
Location | College Park, Georgia, U.S. |
Team colors | Red, black, yellow, gray [1] [2] [3] |
Team manager | Tori Miller [4] |
Head coach | Steve Gansey [5] |
Ownership | Atlanta Hawks |
Affiliation(s) | Atlanta Hawks |
Championships | 0 |
Division titles | 1 (2017–18) |
Website | www |
The College Park Skyhawks are an American professional basketball team in the NBA G League based in College Park, Georgia, and are affiliated with the Atlanta Hawks. The Skyhawks play their home games at Gateway Center Arena at College Park after the franchise played its first two seasons in Erie, Pennsylvania, at the Erie Insurance Arena as the Erie BayHawks. [6] [7] The team became the sixteenth D-League team to be owned by an NBA team. [8] [9]
On November 10, 2016, the Atlanta Hawks announced that they had bought and established a new NBA D-League team to play in a new arena in nearby College Park beginning with the 2019–20 season. [10] In December 2016, the Orlando Magic purchased the original BayHawks franchise with the intent of relocating it to Florida for the 2017–18 season, eventually becoming the Lakeland Magic. In February 2017, the original BayHawks owners negotiated with the Atlanta Hawks to activate their franchise early and play as the BayHawks until the new arena in College Park is completed. [11] [12] The new Hawks' minor league franchise then became the BayHawks and began play in the rebranded NBA G League for the 2017–18 season.
The Hawks announced on February 21, 2019, that their G League affiliate would be known as the College Park Skyhawks when the team moved to Georgia for the 2019–20 season. [13] On May 10, 2019, the Hawks announced that rapper and College Park native 2 Chainz would join the Skyhawks' ownership group. [14]
Season | Division | Regular season | Postseason results | ||||||
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Finish | Wins | Losses | Win % | ||||||
Erie BayHawks | |||||||||
2017–18 | Southeast | 1st | 28 | 22 | .560 | Won First Round (Lakeland) 96–90 Won Conference Semifinal (Fort Wayne) 119–116 Lost Conference Final (Raptors 905) 106–118 | |||
2018–19 | Southeast | 4th | 24 | 26 | .480 | ||||
College Park Skyhawks | |||||||||
2019–20 | Southeast | 3rd | 20 | 23 | .465 | Season cancelled by COVID-19 pandemic | |||
2020–21 | Opted out of single-site season | ||||||||
2021–22 | Eastern | 3rd | 20 | 13 | .606 | Lost Conference Quarterfinal (Capital City) 122–131 | |||
2022–23 | Eastern | 11th | 15 | 17 | .469 | ||||
Regular season record | 107 | 101 | .514 | ||||||
Playoff record | 2 | 2 | .500 |
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# | Head coach | Term | Regular season | Playoffs | Achievements | ||||||
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G | W | L | Win% | G | W | L | Win% | ||||
1 | Josh Longstaff | 2017–2018 | 50 | 28 | 22 | .560 | 3 | 2 | 1 | .667 | |
2 | Noel Gillespie | 2018–2021 | 93 | 44 | 49 | .473 | — | — | — | — | |
3 | Steve Gansey | 2021–present | 65 | 35 | 30 | .538 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
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The court features the team logo, a Skyhawk surrounded by two stars and the team's name, at center court. Skyhawk red is used in both lanes and in blocks on the sidelines, while the team's secondary color, black, surrounds the court itself. The team's home arena, "Gateway Center Arena," is emblazoned on the baselines in Skyhawk yellow. The Atlanta Hawks logo is featured twice, on opposite corners of the baseline.