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Emory Healthcare and the Atlanta Hawks plan to build a training and sports medicine center on Executive Park Drive in Brookhaven, which also will serve as the team’s o cial headquarters and practice site.

e team expects to break ground this summer on the 90,000-square-foot, privately funded facility.

It will be the rst training facility in the NBA to be co-located with a sports medicine center, allowing for

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expert and immediate treatment and access to equipment such as the 3 Tesla MRI scanner, which provides diagnoses for so tissue and bone bruise injuries.

Emory will become the o cial sports medicine provider of the team, o ering preventive and rehabilitative treatment and sports perfor- mance training. Physicians from Emory’s current Sports Medicine Center will relocate to Brookhaven, where they will see and treat patients.

“Emory Healthcare has built outstanding orthopaedics services over the past decade, and we are excited to continue to grow this area,” says Jon Lewin, president,