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Dempsey: Atlanta Hawks show there is another way to win in the NBA Team reaches Eastern Conference Finals sans a bonafide all-star Of all the known quantities headed to the NBA's final four, the Atlanta Hawks are the team in no clear category. Atlanta is the biggest remaining unknown. We think we know the Hawks. They are the team with no star. We dock them for that. They are the team with no go-to guy in the clutch. We dock them for that. They are the team that plays like a team, which we say we like, but then say those kinds of teams have no chance to win. And yet, here they are. It's time we get to know them. I mean, really get to know them, and embrace what they have done and what they may still have yet to do — four wins from being in the NBA Finals. They are the latest challengers to the "star system" way of doing things in the NBA. This is good for a league that has been forever slow to come around to the realization that there is more than one way of doing things. The San Antonio Spurs started us down this road, winning last year's NBA title with the kind of free-flowing, team basketball that had everyone from coast to coast exalting the beauty of it all and exclaiming that this was the way the game was meant to be played. Well, the Hawks are Spurs light. They are a better barometer for the litmus test of whether this crazy strategy actually has a future. There are no Hall of Famers on the squad — the Spurs have three, and a coach, who will find themselves in Springfield, Mass., someday. Wizards, Washington Wizards, Hawks, Atlanta Hawks, atlanta hawks atlanta hawks highlights 2015, atlanta hawks 2015, atlanta hawks vs brooklyn nets, atlanta hawks highlights, atlanta hawks playoffs, atlanta hawks uptown funk, atlanta hawks vs cleveland cavaliers, atlanta hawks playoffs 2015, atlanta hawks intro.