{"id":28192,"date":"2015-01-08T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-owners-begin-sale-process\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:40:21","slug":"hawks-owners-begin-sale-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hawks-owners-begin-sale-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawks&#8217; owners begin sale process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Hawks are officially for sale.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA franchise, which has the best record in the Eastern Conference at 27-8 as of Jan. 8, has retained Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. and Inner Circle Sports LLC to advise on the sale of the club and ancillary assets.<\/p>\n<p>Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson decided to sell his controlling interest in the franchise back in September in the wake of a racially insensitive e-mail he wrote two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that 100 percent of the franchise would be available and on Thursday the club released a statement to confirm the initiation of the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Atlanta Hawks today announced that its owners have unanimously approved a plan to sell the franchise and the Philips Arena operating rights,&#8221; the team&#8217;s release said. &#8220;The sale will commence immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, several prospective buyers have already inquired about the franchise. The process is expected to take a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Hawks are officially for sale. The NBA franchise, which has the best record in the Eastern Conference at 27-8 as of Jan. 8, has retained Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. and Inner Circle Sports LLC to advise on the sale of the club and ancillary assets. Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[18,89,90],"class_list":["post-28192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-hawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28197,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28192\/revisions\/28197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}