Tom Cousins: The real-estate developer brought the NBA and NHL to Atlanta and built the Omni, which was Philips Arena’s predecessor. Cousins and Carl Sanders bought the St. Louis Hawks for $3 million and moved the team to Atlanta in 1968. Cousins brought an NHL expansion franchise, the Flames, here in 1972 and sold it eight years later to a Canadian businessman who moved it to Calgary.

Bobby Cox: The Braves’ manager in half of their 50 seasons here — 1978-81, 1990-2010 — Cox guided his Atlanta teams to 2,149 wins, five National League pennants and one World Series championship. As the team’s general manager in the late 1980s, he set the foundation for its 1990s success.

Mike Fratello: He posted a 324-250 record as Hawks coach from 1983-90, reaching the playoffs five times in seven seasons, and remains the winningest coach in the franchise’s Atlanta history.

Tom Glavine: He won 244 regular-season games and 12 postseason games for the Braves, including the one that delivered Atlanta its only ultimate championship of a major-league sport: eight innings of one-hit ball as the Braves beat the Indians 1-0 in Game 6 of the 1995 World Series.

Lou Hudson: He averaged more than 20 points per game in each of the Hawks’ first seven seasons in Atlanta, more than 25 per game in four of them. Hudson died last year.

Claude Humphrey: Although sacks became an official NFL statistic after his playing career ended, the Falcons calculated from film review that Humphrey, a six-time Pro Bowler, had 94.5 from 1968-78 to make him the franchise’s all-time leader in the category.

Ernie Johnson: A Braves pitcher when the team was based in Boston and Milwaukee, he became an Atlanta icon as a Braves broadcaster from the 1960s through the 1990s. Johnson, who died in 2013, often said he approached broadcasting as if he had been invited into the fans’ living rooms. The fans loved having him there.

Andruw Jones: The best defensive center fielder of his generation by far, Jones got to many balls that no one else would. His 10 Gold Gloves overshadowed his 368 home runs and 1,117 RBI in 11-plus seasons with the Braves from 1996-2007.

Chipper Jones: Unlike many other team greats, Jones was able to play his entire career with the Braves. From his rookie season in 1995 through his final season in 2012, he had a .303 batting average and 468 home runs.

David Justice: His sixth-inning home run in Game 6 of the 1995 World Series provided the only run of a victory that gave Atlanta its first — and to this day its only — championship of a major-league sport.