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Nightcap

Hawks AF - Hawks CEO Steve Koonin on touring the aquarium with Beyoncé, team's future, & ATL's best

Nightcap

iHeartPodcasts and Shay Shay Media

Sports, Football, Basketball

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Atlanta Hawks CEO Steve Koonin joins DC at State Farm Arena to talk the team's young core of players, that time he guided Beyoncé on a private tour of the Georgia Aquarium, his favorite places in the city, and how he strives to make an impact on the community in his role as CEO.

0:00 Intro
2:20 Zacch, Dyson, and Jalen
3:42 An epic Beyoncé story
5:50 Celebrities coming to Hawks games
7:05 ATL traffic
8:19 Fav place to eat in ATL
9:50 Chocolate Chip Cookies
10:20 Serving the ATL community
12:05 We goin' to the Blue Flame

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0:00.0

You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.8

I know the people at home like, man, is he the president of your United States?

0:09.8

I wish.

0:11.7

I wish.

0:13.8

And matter of fact, I think he's going to run in the next three years.

0:29.7

Today's guest is an OG, a OG, a OG from Atlanta, born and raised, UGA graduate.

0:31.3

He worked for Coke.

0:33.5

He worked for Turner.

0:35.9

He's the chairman of the aquarium.

0:40.3

He's the CEO of our very own Atlanta Hawks. Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for Steve Cooney!

0:45.3

Come on, y'all.

0:48.3

That was an amazing introduction.

0:50.3

Just a reminder, it's an empty building behind us.

0:53.3

That's what I'll try to tell you, but we got a little crowd of here Steve okay as the CEO man like what is the number

1:00.9

one job for you when you enter this arena this this establishment because I don't saw you a

1:06.4

couple of times Steve you be chilling Steve oh yeah You be acting like you ain't who you is.

1:12.5

You know, I just see everybody move out the way. You just sit out. But what's your number

1:16.6

one go to when you come in here? Like, what's on your mind? I want people to have the best

1:21.8

experience that night and it starts at the Hawks game. I want to excite Atlanta, entertain Atlanta, and we want people to come here, and it demonstrates Atlanta, which is all of us who are different, come together and celebrate one thing.

1:39.0

And that's a Hawks victory.

1:41.0

Now, I want to know, because everybody has, proud of them, been through this,

1:48.2

what's a player that we got rid of that you wish we wouldn't have? I'm going to try to go back so

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