with a 2010 second-round draft pick and a conditional 2010 second-round draft pick in exchange for guards Chucky Atkins and Damien Wilkins. On September 2, 2010, it was announced that the Atlanta Hawks had signed Thomas. His tenure with the Hawks (2010 - 2011) would be his final season in the NBA. That season, he played 13 games for Atlanta while averaging 2.5 points and 1.8 rebounds. His final NBA game was played on April 16, 2011 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference First Round against the Orlando Magic. Thomas played for 6 and half minutes and the only stat he recorded was 1 rebound in a 103 - 93 victory over Orlando. He would sit out for the remainder of the playoffs and the Atlanta Hawks were eventually eliminated in the Semi-Finals in 6 games by the Chicago Bulls. Other work In 2005, Thomas released a book of poetry titled More Than an Athlete: Poems by Etan Thomas which included works critical of former Wizards head coach Doug Collins. In 2012, Thomas co-authored the autobiography Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge, which he discusses his fatherless childhood and the importance of fatherhood. Since 2020, Thomas has been a writer and podcaster for Basketballnews.com. In 2022 he published: Police Brutality and White Supremacy: The Fight Against American Traditions. Personal life A Baptist, Thomas is a member of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden and is involved in facilitating youth forums. Political activism and social causes Thomas says that he became an oralist when, after he was detained and humiliated by police officers in high school, his speech teacher had him sort and verbalize his feelings into a speech. The Tulsa World Newspaper published a story on his experience. His mother spoke with him about activists who used their positions as athletes to amplify their reach, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell, and Jim Brown. In his book, More Than an Athlete, Thomas discusses how the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) runs as a business, and not to the service of the student athletes. After his wife was injured in college, the NCAA fought to take away her scholarship, and therefore, her ability to pay for and attend college. He points out the hypocrisy in an organization who makes billions a year and claims that there is not enough funding available for their main sources of profit, the