ATLANTA — Two days after the Atlanta Hawks season ended, the team has announced an agreement to make Nate McMillan their new head coach.
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McMillan was officially an “interim” coach when he took over for Lloyd Pierce who was fired March 1 as the Hawks were floundering with a 14-20 record.
Hawks have an agreement place with Head Coach Nate McMillan.. Interim tag is gone.
— Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) July 5, 2021
McMillan was able to change the tone of the team almost immediately, as the Hawks ran off a 27-11 record the rest of the season and grabbed the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
The run continued as the Hawks knocked out New York and top-seeded Philadelphia in the first two rounds of the playoffs before losing to the Milwaukee Bucks 4-2 in their best-of-seven series.
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There had been rumors Hawks General Manager Travis Schlenk was prepared to offer McMillan the job once the season ended. Those rumors were apparently true.
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This will be McMillan’s fourth full-time head coaching job, with previous stops in Seattle, Portland and Indiana. The former NBA point guard has career coaching record of 688-599 spread out over 20 seasons.
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