Martin Luther King Jr. Day is shaping up to be a supersized day of basketball on the NBA on NBC, where an unprecedented quadrupleheader of NBA games will keep the backboards buzzing from afternoon well into prime time. 

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That includes a 1 p.m. ET tipoff contest between the Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks — the only matchup in the day’s four-game slate that will stream exclusively on Peacock. With Atlanta playing host at State Farm Arena, the Bucks-Hawks game will feature the Hawks sporting their 2025-2026 City Edition uniforms — a cool, convention-breaking homage to the city’s historic past as well as its cutting-edge present. 

Want to know more about the meaning behind the Hawks’ City Edition threads? Keep on scrolling for the details!

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The story behind the Atlanta Hawks’ 2026 NBA City Edition uniforms

Thanks to a cool color combo that pays tribute to an Atlanta icon, there’s a little bit of modern and a little bit of retro to the Hawks’ City Edition look. If you’ve ever driven around in the ATL, then you know you can’t go far without running into a street that has “Peachtree” somewhere in its name — and from the collar down to the cutoffs, the Hawks’ “Fresh Peach” trim color gives a warm and fuzzy nod to the namesake fruit of Georgia (aka the Peach State). 

How important to Atlanta natives is the Georgia peach? It’s “a marker that unites people who call Atlanta home,” explains LockerVision, the NBA’s official uniform tracker. “From the 71 Peachtree streets to the peach on every license plate, this color belongs to everyone who claims this city as a part of their story.” In keeping with that theme, every Hawks City Edition uniform features an edgy and stylized “Peachtree” logo above each player’s jersey number. 

Fringed by “Ascension White” (a color that tips its hat to the energized, always-on spirit of Atlanta’s urban ascent), the Hawks’ City Edition trim colors frame a jersey and shorts covered in “Infinity Black” — the primary uniform hue that affirms the team’s relentless pursuit of its first NBA title as an Atlanta-based squad. As a bit of background, the Hawks do have one NBA Championship already to their credit… but it came at the end of the 1957-1958 season, when the team was still based in St. Louis. 

Putting it all together, the Hawks’ City Edition threads represent “the peach glow of an Atlanta evening and sharp lines that carry the city’s unmistakable edge,” as LockerVision puts it — and if the odds are in their favor, they might even help the Hawks notch an MLK Day win to tip off the first of three head-to-head matchups between Atlanta and the Milwaukee Bucks this season.

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How to watch the Milwaukee Bucks vs. Atlanta Hawks on Peacock

The Milwaukee Bucks will head south to Atlanta to take on the Hawks on Monday, January 19 in a streaming-exclusive NBA matchup that can only be found on Peacock. Tipoff time is set for 1 p.m. ET, with the game arriving as the first in an enormous four-game NBA quadrupleheader to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. 

Following the Bucks-Hawks contest, three more NBA on NBC games will tip off back-to-back-to-back. Reigning NBA champs the Oklahoma City Thunder will take on the Cleveland Cavaliers at 2:30 p.m. ET, followed by the Dallas Mavericks visiting the New York Knicks at 5 p.m. ET, with
the fourth and final game featuring the Boston Celtics vs. the Detroit Pistons at 8 p.m. ET. You can catch all three games live on NBC, and in simulcast streaming on Peacock. 

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