Joe Johnson’s game-winning shot in double overtime. Seinfeld approved.
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Joe Johnson’s game-winning shot in double overtime. Seinfeld approved.
Paul Pierce has gone from Old Man Game to just Old Man.
It’s hard, especially being a Celtics fan, to see Cap age like this. Someone take him around back and let KG put him out of his misery.
(Source: nbaoffseason.com)
The Brooklyn Nets and Atlanta Hawks have agreed in principle to a trade that will send Joe Johnson to Brooklyn for a few spare parts and a lottery-protected draft pick. The Nets are also expected to re-sign Deron Williams soon.
What this means financially is that Dwight Howard will not be moving to Brooklyn just a week after Howard finally, publicly admitted that he wanted Orlando to trade him there.
So Dwight blew it and all because he was too scared?/confused?/hopeless? to ask for the one thing that every 21-year old kid with a trust fund in America tells his or her parents after graduation: “Thanks for the money. I want to move to Brooklyn.”
Watch Joe Johnson earn $5.23 of his $120,000,000 contract. Keith Bogans forgot to buckle up as Joe hit the breaks and sent him flying. He’s going to need some ankle therapy after that crossover. Also facepalm myself for messing up the series record, it’s actually tied 2-2. One good thing about that mistake was that I learned that this blog has a lot of angry Bulls fans.
The city of Atlanta recently said good bye to Bobby Cox, the long time manager of the Braves. In his 20 plus year gear with the Braves, Cox earned the nickname of “America’s Bridesmaid,” due to his inability to take the Braves to the next level. Of course, we could apply to the same tag to the Atlanta Hawks. Not that the Hawks haven’t gone to the big dance and choked on the biggest stage, but they just seem to fade away after the second round. Perhaps, the best way to describe the current Hawks squad is that the team is a lot like a hoarder. There is a desire to change and make progression, but once the squad is put the test of making a grand change, they just can’t throw that sweaty old headband.
Look at the 2010 playoffs, after struggling to defeat the upstart and Andrew Bogut-less Milwaukee Bucks, the Hawks just threw their hands up and rolled over for the Orlando Magic. The Hawks didn’t even make it interesting. They couldn’t get past that struggle with the Bucks and were content to wallow in their own mediocrity.
After re-signing Joe Johnson for an absurd amount of money and hiring a new coach (Larry Drew), the Hawks seemed poised to do what?
Well, players like Josh Smith, Joe Johnson, Jamal Crawford, and Al Horford will have great individual numbers and be really great for your fantasy team.
Perhaps new coach Larry Drew will provide more motivation than the Hawks’ last coach, Michael Woodson who infamously decided to shave off his eyebrows before playing the Houston Rockets last season. Granted, the move inspired the team in the regular season, but they still shat the bed in the playoffs. Drew is inheriting a consistent regular season team and maybe it’ll take an entire body waxing to push the Hawks to the Eastern Conference finals.
Here’s the deal, the Hawks will a good regular season team this year; probably the fifth or sixth seed in the Eastern Conference, but can they become a playoff team this year? Will they just shrug their shoulders and say, “ehhhh, we know we’re going to lose to the Celtics/Magic/Bulls in the first round…so, let’s just plan our vacation instead.”
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And for no good reason, here’s a “Thriller” remake/spoof featuring the Atlanta Hawks’ mascot:
If this report is true, Joe Johnson will have a chance to sign a six-year, $119 million debt with the Hawks. That’s one extra year and twenty-seven million extra dollars to stay where he is. He won’t have to move lockers, let alone homes. $24.1 million will be his age-34 salary, which even Elin Nordegren thinks is an excessive amount of cash.
This should come as a blow to any other teams trying to sign Johnson, especially the Knicks, who wanted Johnson to sign for $11 million per year. The New York sales pitch is that players can make up the salary difference with endorsements, but is Joe Johnson really going to make $5 million a year in endorsements? Let alone, an EXTRA $25 million in endorsements? No way. If this were election night coverage, CNN would be calling the state of Joe Johnson for Atlanta.
Hat tips: Ball Don’t Lie / Steeebo
Fair to say nothing went right for the Hawks today.
Speaking of ATL, here’s Al Horford, Joe Johnson, and Josh Smith on the cover of SLAM. What do you think…are the Hawks legit? Should they get rid of Harry the Hawk and just have T-Pain as their new mascot to draw more people to the games? Does Josh Smith have a Buddy Christ tattoo?
