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Welcome to the Second Round

What a first round! While there were a number of snoozer series that lacked a single competitive moment (I'm looking in your general direction, Denver), there were plenty of exciting battles, some where I expected, others in less expected series. While...

2007-2008 Playoff Predictions

Each year I post my (insanely inaccurate) playoff predictions prior to the start of the postseason. I some rare circumstances my picks are spot on, but most of the time I take a gamble or two and end up blowing the whole postseason (like last year, I...

Where Will Latrell End Up?

What's the over under on how many days Latrell Sprewell will be out of action? Currently the troubled (perhaps a bit washed up) player has put out the feelers to a lot of teams, but it doesn't sound like anyone's interested. There's been rumors that he...

Joe Johnson's Not Bad, But He's Not THAT Good

More drama in the Hawks trade for Joe Johnson. Shortly after the trade was announced Steve Belkin, one of the owners of the Hawks, voted to nix the deal, arguing (correctly, IMO) that the Hawks' $70 million dollar, five-year deal was not in line with...
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Joe Johnson to the Hawks

ESPN.com is reporting that Phoenix will do a sign-and-trade with the Atlanta Hawks for Joe Johnson . The trade will give Johnson a $70 million, five-year contract, which is great for Joe, I guess, but it appears that his agent forgot to tell him that...
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Unbelievable

The Lakers lost to the Atlanta Hawks . These are the Hawks who traded away their star player (Abdur-Rahim) for Rasheed Wallace, and then promptly traded away Wallace for squat. These are the Hawks whose record outshines only two teams - the Bulls and...
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So Long 'Sheed

Portland has traded Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person to the Atlanta Hawks for Shareef Abdul-Rahim, Theo Ratliff, and Dan Dickau. Wallace always struct me as a player who had tons of upside - a great basketball build with incredible skill at both the...
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