Nope. The Atlanta United laugh at this statement
Falcons have a tremendous ownership group, great facilities and during Blank's tenure field a competitive team (8 playoff appearances since 01, tied for 4th most in the NFL over that span). In Blank's tenure as owner, he was jokingly referred to as "Blank Check" meaning when you came here as a FA player to visit, you weren't leaving because Blank was gonna get you whatever you wanted. The Falcons by far have the most amount of local support via consecutive sellouts and PSL sales so you're wrong there on both accounts
Hawks are probably the only one who I could say has had questionable ownership groups from the Atlanta Spirit to Michael Gearon to now with Tony Ressler but they are making inroads to have a better game day experience, renovated Philips Arena, built a new training facility with Emory Healthcare in Brookhaven (right next to Buckhead so relatively close to Lenox Square, Phipps Plaza, etc) and just broke ground on a facility in College Park for our own G League team. Hawks have die hard support but in the NBA you have to draft stars and the Hawks haven't done that. If your business model is to just sign guys then you won't be successful. Once the Hawks draft a superstar level player then I think the narrative that Atlanta has lackluster support will change because right now there's not a lot to cheer for downtown with the local team
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