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Bob Rathbun

Play-by-Play

Bob Rathbun enters his 28th season as the play-by-play voice for the Atlanta Hawks on Bally Sports Southeast.

Rathbun is the longest-tenured TV play-by-play announcer in the franchise's history.

Additionally, Rathbun served as the play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Dream (WNBA) for 10 seasons on FOX Sports South and FOX Sports Southeast and has provided play-by-play for Atlantic Coast Conference events throughout his career.

Rathbun has covered the NBA for TNT and NBA TV, and collegiate sports for CBS, ABC, and ESPN.

In 2019, Rathbun was inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Media Hall of Fame, his 4th HOF recognition.

In 2012, Rathbun was named the Georgia Sportscaster of the Year honors from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Rathbun has won twelve Regional Emmy Awards and has earned eight Sportscaster of the Year honors (Virginia: 1980-82, 1985, 1988-89; Georgia 1998, 2012).

Rathbun also received a Distinguished Service Award from the ACC (1994), and a Distinguished Alumni Award from Catawba College (1988).

Rathbun graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from Catawba College and was inducted into their Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.

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Dominique Wilkins

Analyst

Hall-of-Famer Dominique Wilkins enters his 15th season as an analyst for the Atlanta Hawks telecasts on Bally Sports Southeast.

Wilkins also serves as the Hawks' vice president of basketball & Special Advisor to CEO.

Wilkins, a 6-8 forward, is the 15th all-time leading scorer (26,668 points) in NBA history and his 24.8 career scoring average is 14th on the all-time charts.

Wilkins' 23,292 points with the Hawks are the franchise's best, and he ranks second overall in team history in steals (1,245), fourth in rebounds (6,119), sixth in blocked shots (588) and seventh in assists (2,321).

In 2001, Wilkins became the third player in Hawks history to have his uniform number (#21) retired, joining Hawks legends Bob Pettit and Lou Hudson.

In 2015, the Hawks unveiled a 13.5-foot-tall, 18,500-pound granite sculpture of Wilkins outside of State Farm Arena.

Wilkins ended his University of Georgia career as the school's all-time scoring leader with averages of 21.6 points to go along with his 7.5 rebounds. A three-time All-SEC performer who also took home the Most Valuable Player award from the 1981 Southeastern Conference tournament, he was selected with the third overall pick in the first round by the Utah Jazz in 1982.

He was a member of the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1983 and was named to seven All-NBA teams, nine consecutive All-Star squads and was a two-time winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Championship (1985 and 1990).

Wilkins was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 8, 2006; the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame on April 3, 2004; and the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame's inaugural class on June 10, 2005. He was named to the NBA75 team in 2021. In 2011, Wilkins was inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs of America Alumni Hall of Fame.

Extremely active with local and national charity endeavors, Wilkins has done work with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Special Olympics, Muscular Dystrophy Association and American Lung Association.

In March 2010, Wilkins was honored by the Georgia State Legislature as they presented a State Resolution naming him the Diabetes Ambassador for the state of Georgia. He is also a diabetes ambassador for Novo Nordisk, a world leader in Diabetes care.

Wilkins was born in Paris, France.

Wilkins was born in Paris, France.

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Treavor Scales

Hawks LIVE Host

Treavor Scales enters his third season as host of Hawks LIVE, the network's pre- and postgame show.

Scales won a Southeast Regional Emmy award for Talent – Program Host/Moderator/Correspondent in 2023.

Scales was hired in September, 2021, to be the primary host of Hawks LIVE and Braves LIVE for Bally Sports. He made his network debut as host of Braves LIVE on Sept. 14, 2021.

Prior to joining Bally Sports, Scales was a commentator for ESPN for six years, hosting SportsNation on ESPN+, SportsCenter on Snapchat, The College Football Show on Twitter, YouTube and the ESPN app and What's Good on ESPN IGTV.

He started at ESPN as a crewing coordinator in 2013 before being accepted into a two-year fellowship program at ESPN to become an on-air talent. He was a host and anchor of SportsCenter and ESPN New York 98.7 FM during his fellowship program.

Scales is a native of Stone Mountain, Ga. and graduated from Dunwoody High School in 2009. He went on to play football at Harvard and was a four-time All-Ivy League running back. He graduated in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in economics.

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Brian Oliver

Hawks LIVE Analyst

Brian Oliver enters his third season as an analyst on Hawks LIVE, the pre- and postgame show for Atlanta Hawks telecasts on Bally Sports Southeast.

Oliver was hired in October 2021 and has also filled in as a game analyst throughout his first two seasons.

Oliver was an analyst for ACC men's basketball games on Bally Sports South from 2017-23 and has called ACC games for Raycom Sports since 2015. Prior to that he was an analyst for Comcast Sports Net in Philadelphia from 2011-14, calling Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball games. He worked for Comcast Sports South from 2008-14 as a Conference USA basketball analyst and studio expert for college basketball shows.

Before starting his career in television, Oliver played professional basketball from 1990-2007, including four seasons in the NBA and 12 seasons overseas. He played five games with the Atlanta Hawks in the 1997-98 season and was named MVP three times overseas.

He was drafted No. 32 overall in the 1990 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. He played collegiately at Georgia Tech where he as honorable mention All-America and MVP of the ACC Championship game in 1990. That season he helped lead his team to the NCAA Final Four as part of the “Lethal Weapon III” trio with Dennis Scott and Kenny Anderson.

Oliver earned a business construction degree from Georgia Tech and his now a senior project manager for DPR Construction.

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Tabitha Turner

Courtside Reporter

Tabitha Turner begins her first season as a courtside reporter for Atlanta Hawks telecasts on Bally Sports Southeast.

Turner has been an analyst and reporter for the networks' Atlanta Dream coverage over the last three years and five years total going back to 2017. She was also an analyst and sideline reporter for ACC women's basketball games on the regional sports network from 2019-23.

Turner has been very active as a broadcaster in Atlanta, including several roles calling basketball games in the area. She was a sideline reporter for the Hawks' G-League team, the College Park Skyhawks, on Peachtree TV in 2021-22, a color analyst for Georgia Tech men's and women's basketball games on ACC Network/ESPN since 2018, a color analyst for Kennesaw State women's basketball games on ESPN3 in 2021-22 and as a radio color analyst for Georgia Tech women's basketball games on WREK 91.1 FM from 2016-19.

Other Atlanta roles include working as a sideline reporter and interim arena host for the Georgia Swarm on CW69 and Bleacher Report Live since December, 2016. She has been a sideline reporter for high school football games on Georgia Public Broadcasting since November, 2021, as well as an in-studio analyst for the 2022 GHSA Girl's Basketball Championship on Georgia Public Broadcasting.

A Miami native, Turner has worked as an engineer since graduating from Georgia Tech in 2010 with degrees in civil engineering and business management, where she played college basketball for the Yellow Jackets. She started work as a civil engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation in 2011 and moved back to Atlanta in 2016 to work for the Georgia Department of Transportation and start her broadcasting career. Turner joins analyst Brian Oliver as the second Georgia Tech graduate on the Hawks broadcast team.

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