The franchise lasted only 38 days in Buffalo when, on December 25, 1946, Leo Ferris, the team's general manager, announced that the team would be moving to Moline, Illinois, which at that time was part of an area then known as the "Tri-Cities": Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.
Upon relocation to Moline, the team was renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks.
In 1949, the Blackhawks became one of the NBA's 17 original teams after a merger of the twelve-year-old National Basketball League (NBL) and the three-year-old Basketball Association of America (BAA).
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Atlanta Hawks franchise.
Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2023–24 season.