Atlanta, GA
Final Score Predictions For Atlanta vs Brooklyn Matchup
The season rolls on tonight for the Atlanta Hawks and they are hoping to snap a small two game losing streak when they face the Brooklyn Nets tonight.
The Hawks have gotten off to a disappointing start this season, going 1-3 in their first four games and dropping a game on Monday against the Chicago Bulls. Brooklyn meanwhile has started 0-4 and looked about how we all thought they would at the start of the season.
While no NBA game is a must-win in October, it would not be good for the Hawks if they dropped this game. They would fall to 1-4, and after being talked about as one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference before the season, the pressure would start to mount on this group.
So what is plaguing the Hawks in their first four games? Our own Rohan Raman took a deeper look at the numbers in today’s preview:
“The Hawks’ offense is steadily taking steps forward. They’re 25th in points, 21st in FG%, 21st in 3P%, 18th in FT%, 28th in rebounds (21st in OREB), 10th in assists and 4th in turnovers per game. Despite the poor numbers, Atlanta just broke 120+ points during their game with Chicago against a very tough Bulls defense. Trae Young teams have also been a virtual lock for above-average offensive production throughout his career, so expect the Hawks to keep climbing up the offensive rankings.
Their transition defense and rim protection continue to hold them back on defense and the Bulls just torched them from deep. On a per-game basis, Atlanta ranks 20th in points allowed, 27th in FG% allowed, 7th in 3P% allowed, 27th in rebounds allowed, 23rd in steals and 18th in blocks. So far, the improvements they’ve theoretically made to the defense have not shone through.
Despite their record, the Nets are a thoroughly mediocre offense. They rank 21st in points, 19th in FG%, 14th in 3P%, 12th in FT%, 30th in rebounds (12th in OREB), 17th in assists and 13th in turnovers per game. Brooklyn has legitimate scoring options like Cam Thomas and Michael Porter Jr, but they sorely lack the high-level shotmaking or passing necessary for offensive consistency.
The defense has been the real struggle. While the Hawks’ defense has been bad, the Nets’ defense is catastrophic. They’re 30th in points allowed, 30th in FG% allowed, 30th in 3P% allowed, 10th in rebounds allowed, 26th in steals and 30th in blocks. They have no real perimeter defense to speak of and that’s led to opposing lineups getting whatever they want against Brooklyn’s defense.”
Spread and Over/Under: The Hawks will be favored on the road tonight, as the Nets are currently 7.5 point favorites according to the latest odds from the Fanduel Sportsbook, and the over/under is set at 238.5.
I think the Hawks win this game and win it comfortably tonight. They are more talented and need the game more than Brooklyn.
Final Score: Atlanta 130, Nets 116 (ATL -7.5 and Over)
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Photograph by Martha Williams
Atlanta diners may recognize the name Adidsara “Vicky” Weerasin as co-owner of both Tum Pok Pok, the beloved Thai restaurant in Chamblee, and Yao in Buckhead. But they might not know she’s also the person behind Chef’s Tableware, the ceramics shop all over many Atlantans’ “for you” page on TikTok. From its New Peachtree Road warehouse, Chef’s Tableware offers handcrafted plates, cups, and bowls, sourced from Thailand, that look like they’re from Anthropologie but sell for a fraction of the price. And while it is a wholesale operation, it’s open to both restaurant-industry professionals and savvy Atlanta shoppers.
Weerasin’s pieces appear on tables at top Atlanta restaurants, from the soft-green platform bowls used to showcase Claudia Martinez’s confectionery creations at Bar Ana to the speckled black plates heaped with pasta at BoccaLupo. Another place you can expect to find Chef’s Tableware selections is at Georgia Boy, the tasting menu–only restaurant in the back of Southern Belle. “I picked up matte black dinner plates, an artsy pedestal bowl with a bubbled ceramic finish, and concave, high-gloss porcelain pieces,” says Georgia Boy and Southern Belle chef and owner Joey Ward. “Each one helps elevate the way we present a dish.”
Weerasin first discovered her love of ceramics when she took a pottery-making class at her high school in Thailand. She’s now lived in Atlanta 20 years, but she returns to her homeland every year to visit family. It was during one such trip in 2023 that she visited a family member’s ceramics business and saw the type of stunning handmade pieces that now fill her store. She originally intended for her 4,500-square-foot, two-room space to be more of a friend-to-friend operation, but after several requests, she opened it to the public.
Photograph by Martha Williams
Photograph by Martha Williams
Photograph by Martha Williams
Weerasin says she sources pieces with chefs in mind, collaborating with them on the right textures and weights for their serving dishes and explaining how each aspect might factor into the guest and server experience. “Each restaurant has a different concept, [so] I try to consult and recommend different types of ceramic, stone, clay, and porcelain,” she says.
Her industrial shelves are filled with a wide range of items, from the expected (plates, bowls, cups) to the unusual (sushi boats, matcha bowls, coffee pour-overs). Other offbeat items include an elephant-shaped mug, a peapod cutlery rest, and animal-shaped chopstick rests, located by the register. Customers looking for well-priced gifts for weddings, birthdays, and housewarmings can find dish sets and colorful wine glasses for less than $15.
Popular picks include “donut bowls”—large, shallow pieces that allow for creative plating and are especially popular for serving tasting menus. These bowls, which retail for $39.95 each, also offer a way to pair texture and color with the dishes; for home entertaining, they make a table look grander.
Weerasin’s favorite pieces for first-time shoppers: beautiful drinkware with a drip-style glaze. The glass glaze, known as nagashi (Japanese for “flowing”), is fired at more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which produces a natural crackle effect. “It’s very unique,” she says.
This article appears in our June 2026 issue.
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A semi-truck collided with a train overnight on the city’s southwest side, sparking a fire in the wreckage.
No injuries have been reported as authorities have yet to locate the driver of the tractor-trailer. No occupants were found on the train either, according to Atlanta Fire Rescue.
Crews responded to reports of a vehicle fire just before 4 a.m. at the intersection of Lee and Spark streets in southwest Atlanta.
When first responders arrived, they encountered a tractor-trailer afire after being struck by a train. Firefighters worked to put out the flames in the cab, trailer as well as on debris strewn about the railroad and roadway, Atlanta Fire Rescue told Atlanta News First.
Crews have not identified any hazardous materials in the wreckage.
An investigation is ongoing as no occupants were found in the tractor-trailer, train or surrounding area, authorities said.
Norfolk Southern and MARTA briefly halted operations in the area as police activity and cleanup continued.
The crash happened just below elevated MARTA rail tracks which run between the West End and Oakland City transit stations.
MARTA said that it had requested a bus bridge to transport riders between Oakland City and West End Stations “due to police activity” until further notice.
The transit agency was also offering riders Uber and Lyft credits for rail travel involving the Lakewood, Oakland City, West End and Garnett stations.
This is a developing story. Please stay with Atlanta News First as we learn more.
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“I am at this point where I can’t imagine not going,” Wilkins-Mickey said. “Every year I learn something new. Of course they add different experiences everything we go, so it really does feel different every time, but I want to learn. I want to continue to learn. This is our culture, it’s our history and I would like to continue to understand why we are where we are today. And I think the only way to do that is to understand our past. Every time I go, I just feel so inspired. It gives me purpose to do the work that I do.”
The trip starts with a flight from Seattle to Atlanta where the group has their first glimpse of what to expect for the rest of their week. The group was given a tour of an area of downtown Atlanta called “Sweet Auburn Ave.” which was once a booming community and neighborhood, filled with businesses, that was systemically dismantled by a highway that was built through the neighborhood. Businesses and families were forced to leave.
Keenan Allen Ladd, one of three educators on the tour said, “I really just appreciated the educators in those moments, because they take you through the whole story of the major moments that happened in the Civil Rights Movement.”
The rest of that first day was spent at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, his birth home and other sites in Atlanta before making the drive to the neighboring state of Alabama to visit Anniston, where the Freedom Riders boarded a bus at the Greyhound station and which was attacked by a group of white supremacist,
The group spent the remainder of their trip in different cities in Alabama, including Birmingham, Montgomery and Selma.
While in Montgomery, the group visited the Montgomery riverfront, a location where enslaved people were brought off of boats and taken to the city’s downtown area to be auctioned off.
Leann Coates, Seahawks premium service representative, described the experience as shocking.
“It’s very powerful to be standing there at the riverfront, and know that not long ago, people were brought on ships and sold. That street is still called commerce street. Things have not changed in the way you think they have changed.”
While the group was in Montgomery, one of the locations they visited was the Legacy Museum, a museum that immerses visitors in the history of Black Americans from the Transatlantic slave trade all the way through to present day and mass incarceration.
And while the actual tour of the South was just five days, the journey doesn’t stop there. Ladd said he immediately returned to his classroom and thought about ways to get his students involved and educated on the topics he learned about on the tour. Allen Ladd said he utilized the one thing he knows all of his students use, social media, specifically Tik Tok and Instagram reels, to help the students learn information in a natural way.
“When I got back, I actually had them all take out their phones and go on Tik Tok and look up the Institute for Common Power, just so they could see that experience first-hand. We did that for like two days. By the third day, a lot of their algorithm’s changes and they were able to get real life information that they weren’t getting before.”
He added, “This tour furthers my want, urge and that yearning to make sure I’m standing up for everyone who doesn’t have the opportunity to utilize their voice, to just amplify voices. There’s a lot of people that we’ve learned on this trip, this Truth and Purpose, to utilize your voice for the voice of others. And that’s something that I’m going to do… I’m in a unique position as an educator. I have the opportunity to guide or facilitate youth, and I have an opportunity to open the eyes of our youth and I have something that is precious… I want to make sure they have the correct information. I don’t want to steer them in a particular direction, but I definitely want to put the correct information in front of them, so they can understand what this country looked like previously, to give them a vision of what they believe this country should look like moving forward in the future.”
A lot of the participants come away from the trip feeling a sense of community, empowered and are more enlightened about the history of Black Americans than they were before.
Learn more about the Truth and Purpose tour and the organization, the Institute for Common Power, that spearheads this trip here.
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