The Upvote Factory

11 February 2026

• At least we found our Franchise Enforcer this year

  Much needed after the Magic punk'd us so many times last season. submitted by /u/Protec_My_Balls [link] [comments]

• Kennard X Bufkin backcourt starting for the Lakers tonight

  No relation to us but this would be quite an interesting watch lol.

  Two absolute hawks legends. What a weird timeline.

  submitted by /u/Ok-Negotiation3897 [link] [comments]
• Zacch will be in Rising Stars

  submitted by /u/Fun_Professional_123 [link] [comments]

• 🏀🔴🟡⚫️ I design a new Atlanta Hawks jersey after every win this season: “Golden Oldie”

  - Record: 23-25 - 132-116 vs. Pacers Follow on IG/Twitter/TikTok: @sgzjzy submitted by /u/sgzjzy [link] [comments]

• Does ONSI know what he’s doing?

  How did Kispert end up on our team with ~$11M? I have paid attention closely to him ever since he got to the Hawks, and I just can’t reason the price tag with that kind of performance. Why would you even take on that contract smh … submitted by /u/abcxyz2357 [link] [comments]

• Gentle reminder that this season was a wash as soon as we realized KP wasn’t able to play

  He was the key to this roster. OO gives a solid baseline of play but KP in his short stint showed us what a real impact center is.

  Current roster just isn’t that good. Tired of the think pieces after every loss: everyone outside of JJ is a role player tier talent. That means from game to game, it’s likely hit or miss.

  Dyson can carve up certain teams, others he has a very tough time. We don’t have anyone who can hand it to all 29 other teams with consistency, and that’s okay. JJ isn’t a superstar, and that was never his projection. That fact he got this good is still mind boggling.

  It’s a lot better on the mental to just accept them for a mediocre squad, with a talented yet mediocre coach. Only way out of this is a top 6 pick, another JJ type leap from someone else on the roster, and health. We’ve yet to have a healthy season in what feels like forever.

  Do some draft scouting for both our first round picks, hope Kuminga buys into a role as an off ball guy, look back on how far JJ has come: I choose hopium.

  This season is cooked. Really hope we get into a playoff series but it’s not likely.

  submitted by /u/dangheckinpupperino [link] [comments]
• This looks like one of those lineups we will look back on and say, “I can’t believe I watched that team.”

  Anyone remember the Bazemore, Ilyasova, Plummer, Prince, and Schroeder lineups? submitted by /u/Groots-Cousin [link] [comments]

• Draft Lottery Optimism: The NBA has a tanking problem and we could be beneficiaries

  The NBA outright has a problem with the extreme prevalence of tanking this season, we all know that.

  Ping pong balls are ping pong balls however I think none of us would doubt the NBA would alter them to push their own agendas, for once that may actually benefit us.

  We are almost locked into having the best lottery odds of any team that is not tanking and the NBA could look to "reward" that like they have with recent lottery results to push their anti-tanking initiatives that they have struggled with.

  I think this leads itself to the possibility that our odds at getting a top 3 selection are better than what the "numbers" indicate.

  EDIT: Optimism is fun some of you should give it a try. Do you guys not get tired of grumbling "muh the (insert sports association) hates my favorite team"? Being optimistic has no downsides as purely a fan of a team and is how you should approach your fandom if you actually want to enjoy sports instead of treating it like a toxic relationship.

  submitted by /u/cheemydee5 [link] [comments]
• Thoughts on the rest of this season

  Just review Onsi's press conference on Feb 7th (video, starting 9:33). When he was asked about his expectations for this team for the rest of this season, he said

  1. What he cares about is the development of the players, growing up as a team
  2. He is not putting any expectations for the rest of this season.

  Just wondering, can we just let Zacc, Mo, Asa, and Kuminga(if available) play more time in the remaining games of this season, even though the price could be that we lose 5 or 6 more games than staying with the current rotation?

  My points are:

  1. Why would we keep playing CJ, Corey, etc., just to win a few more games and get swept in the 1st game of the play-in tournament?
  2. I know we are out of control with our own picks. But
     1. We are counting on the NOP picks for the draft anyway.
     2. I don't think we can achieve something remarkable with our current roasters for this season. Then why don't we just focus on the next season and development for the young players? I mean, "winning a few more games so that the Spurs have less odds to get a higher pick", doesn't make sense to me.
  3. If we want to achieve something starting from the next season, we need Zacc, Mo, Asa, and JK to be much better than what they are doing rn. Especially for Zacc, he is terrible so far this season. I don't know what happened with him, but the team should take his situation seriously.

  submitted by /u/OneLastK1ss [link] [comments]
• Pelicans pick

  kind of blows that with the modern tanking nba, no matter how bad a team is, if that team doesn't have their upcoming draft pick it's almost impossible for them to be in the bottom 7 teams at year end.

  The jazz have 3 more pelicans games, you can bet your bottom dollar they will pull all stops to lose all of them. same for Memphis and the Bulls etc.

  submitted by /u/TheOneWhoKnocks3 [link] [comments]