{"id":701153,"date":"2026-04-06T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:55:19","slug":"knicks-vs-hawks-apr-6-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701153\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks vs. Hawks (Apr 6, 2026) Pregame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> (50-28, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (45-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>              Atlanta; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>              BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta will look to keep its four-game win streak going when the Hawks take on New York.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hawks are 26-22 in conference play. Atlanta ranks second in the Eastern Conference with 18.4 fast break points per game led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4701230\/jalen-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Johnson<\/a> averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n<p>              The Knicks are 32-16 in Eastern Conference play. New York has an 8-4 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p>              The Hawks&#8217; 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.8 more made shots on average than the 13.8 per game the Knicks allow. The Knicks are shooting 47.6% from the field, 0.4% higher than the 47.2% the Hawks&#8217; opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n<p>              The teams play for the third time this season. The Hawks won the last matchup 111-99 on Jan. 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431680\/onyeka-okongwu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> scored 23 points to help lead the Hawks to the victory.<\/p>\n<p>              TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4278039\/nickeil-alexander-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nickeil Alexander-Walker<\/a> is averaging 20.6 points and 3.7 assists for the Hawks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2490149\/cj-mccollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ McCollum<\/a> is averaging 19.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3136195\/karl-anthony-towns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> is averaging 20.1 points and 11.9 rebounds for the Knicks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3934672\/jalen-brunson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> is averaging 18.9 points and 6.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>              LAST 10 GAMES: Hawks: 8-2, averaging 124.0 points, 42.6 rebounds, 30.2 assists, 10.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>              Knicks: 7-3, averaging 116.8 points, 44.3 rebounds, 27.7 assists, 8.2 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.9 points.<\/p>\n<p>              INJURIES: Hawks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3146557\/jock-landale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jock Landale<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>              Knicks: Karl-Anthony Towns: day to day (elbow).<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (50-28, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (45-33, fifth in the Eastern Conference)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-701153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}