Somebody, check Kurt Russell’s availability. The Milwaukee Bucks may need his help, because for the last few weeks of this season, they will be starring in Escape from Miami. Situated in the dreaded eighth-spot, two games behind the Celtics and Bulls, and 2.5 games behind the Atlanta Hawks with 16 left to play, they’ll need to rally just to avoid drawing the red-hot HEAT in the first round of the playoffs.
The Bucks got a crucial home win last night against the Portland Trail Blazers, 102-95
Yippee Ki Yay! The Atlanta Hawks look to build on a big Sunday night win in Brooklyn by hogtieing the Dallas Mavericks this evening at the Highlight Factory.
It’s getting close enough to the end of the season where one can shamelessly start looking at Magic Numbers. The Hawks’ Magic Number to guarantee the playoffs is 5 (combo of wins and/or Toronto losses). A win tonight brings the Magic Number for the Heat-avoiding 7-seed down to 10 (combo of wins and/or Milwaukee losses) while also offeri
Here comes the Suns! And I say, it’s alright.
With the rest of America still oddly focused on the hampered mobility of some dude from Los Angeles, the Atlanta Hawks are moving on. They will try to improve their playoff standing by exacting a measure of revenge (no need to wait for a year) against a Phoenix Suns team that tripped them up on March 1, right when the Hawks were in the midst of a nice confidence-building winning streak. It’s taken almost two weeks for the Hawks to fully recover a
Guess who’s back in the playoffs? The Los Angeles Lakers and the Atlanta Hawks appear headed in opposite directions as they meet again this season, this time at the Highlight Factory.
Left for dead at 17-25 with no chance of Pau Gasol coming back anytime soon, The Lakers have ridden the slowly-aging back of Kobe Bryant to win 17 of their next 23 games, including four straight and nine of their last 11. Dwight Howard has also come up with big defensive plays in crunch time to secure a couple
Hell Week continues for the Atlanta Hawks in South Beach! The Miami HEAT are steamrolling the NBA, hoping to make quick work of the Hawks for their 19th consecutive win and seventh straight in this series. To avoid going 1-8 over the course of nine games, the Hawks need to pull off a big win, either tonight against the Heatles, or back home against the Lake Show tomorrow.
The Highlight Factory was the site of Miami’s highlight reel on February 20, when the HEAT throttled the Hawks 40-17 in t
It’s always about confidence and composure anytime the Atlanta Hawks face off against the league’s marquee teams, especially with a national audience watching. Their poise will get tested once again as they seek their first win in Boston Garden since January 2010, and their first dismantling of any Celtics team featuring Kevin Garnett on the parquet floor of the Gahden since November 2009.
The last time the Celtics and Hawks met, on January 25 at the Highlight Factory, Atlanta melted away a
When looking at the lineups at the start of the season, one could not help but glance at the Atlantic Division and make the sobering recognition that, with the cagey Celtics, wisened Knicks, and retooled Nets, that somebody will be settling for fourth place.
It turns out that role fell to the Philadelphia 76ers, tonight’s opponent for the Atlanta Hawks coming off of a decidedly half-baked road trip. The Sixers are kicking off a three-game road swing through the Southeast, losers of their las
Things to Do in Denver when You’re on a Losing Streak? The Atlanta Hawks could use a helpful guide following two road games that got away from them. One early, against an underwhelming Phoenix team, and one late, against a desperate Lakers squad, after a game-winning pass for a layup under the basket was bobbled then vanished into thin air.
Speaking of thin air, they’ve arrived at the Mile High City to face a Nuggets team that boasts the largest winning streak in the West (four in a row) and
After a short delay, tonight at Energy Solutions Arena, it’s finally time for Marvin Bowl I! The Hawks will try to keep the best road show not currently on PBS going against a Utah Jazz team striving to stay above board in the Western Conference standings.
Like Stealers Wheel, both franchises seem stuck in the middle with their core players, and like Huey Lewis, they appear quite happy to be in that situation. Perhaps the second-most clandestine outfit in all of Salt Lake City, the Jazz front
We’ll see if the Atlanta Hawks have gotten their road mojo back tonight with a return to the Palace at Auburn Hills. This second game of a six-game road trip against the Detroit Pistons is as good a time as any to show it.
Last season’s edition of the Hawks finished at 17-16 on the road, their first season above .500 in away games since the lockout season of 1998-99. They were well on their way to another winning road record (9-5) this season, until coming up short in Detroit on January 4, st
The HEAT is on!
It’s on the streets. And it’s on in the climate-controlled office of the Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry, as the trading deadline looms large. It’s the one time every year the word “loom” is uttered without “Fruit of the” as a precedent.
Is the sun setting on Josh Smith’s tenure with his hometown team? If so, tonight could be the last time Hawks fans can bid adieu, or at least “TTFN,” to the man who grew, at least physically, before our eyes, bringing euphoria an
Even with the NBA’s second-worst record, you have to cut former Atlanta Hawk player and Orlando Magic head coach Jacque Vaughn some slack. Just run down the roster.
Orlando’s highest salaried player, Hedo Turkoglu, has missed 40 games, including his last three with a sore back after returning from a bout with the flu, and now will miss 20 more for taking some steroid I can’t spell.
Their second highest-paid player and longest-tenured Magician, Jameer Nelson, has missed 11 games and just ca
Excuse me, Atlanta Hawks, but may the Dallas Mavericks borrow your ladder? “We put ourselves in a hole, Vince Carter told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at shootaround this morning, “and we’re trying to climb back out.”
The Mavericks (22-28) are hoping they’re finally ready to make a run back into the Western Conference playoff picture. After a hellacious 2-13 swoon in late December-early January (including five overtime losses) while Dirk Nowitzki played himself back into starter-quality shape
So, what’s buzzing? Not much in The Big Easy, at least not for much longer.
New Orleans makes its final visit to the Highlight Factory tonight under the “Hornets” moniker, going for the more locally relevant “Pelicans” team name next season.
I’m truly hoping a certain fellow division opponent picks that Hornets name up soon. But for now, this could be the last time you’ll get to see a Hawks-Hornets matchup in Atlanta, barring an NBA Finals or something (snort). “Hawks versus Hornets” has b
Welcome back to Philips Arena, Ed Davis! Here’s hoping you’ll get to stay for the game this time around!
The Memphis Grizzlies’ new majority owner Robert Pera has gone all in, hoping that newly hired Basketball Operations VP John Hollinger is smarter than the average bear. The distinguished stat geek spurred Pera’s front office into pulling the lever on two trades so far. One freed up cap space with the unloading of Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington, and Josh Selby to Cleveland along with a
Let’s see if our oft-dysfunctional Atlanta Hawks can pick up the pace tonight at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. (We get our first taste of the ornithologically-correct 1990's jerseys tonight!)
If the Hawks thought an undermanned Chicago Bulls bunch gave them a world of trouble, getting
outworked both early and late in a 93-76 loss on Saturday Night at Philips Arena, how will they fare against an Indiana Pacers squad that beat those same Bulls (with Carlos Boozer back) 111-101 just last night? Afte
Will our Homecourt Houdinis will be at it again, as the shorthanded but overachieving Chicago Bulls pay a visit to the Atlanta Hawks at the Highlight Factory?
Our Deficit Hawks (26-19) have dug themselves out of double-digit graves in four of their last five home victories, erasing leads of 13 points versus Toronto on Wednesday, 27 against Boston, 18 versus Minnesota, 15 against Utah.
But how much burrowing will be tolerable against a Chicago team that deep-dished the Hawks to the tune of
(EDIT: Will Jose Calderon and Ed Davis play tonight? We're about to find out.)
“Who will buy?”
The trading deadline within sight, the Toronto Raptors’ GM Bryan Colangelo has been getting his “Oliver!” on lately. North of the border, the team that’s 16-29 and 1-7 in a brutal Atlantic Division is looking to shake things up. And if other teams have offers, much like Jordan Farmar, the Raptors are all ears.
You’d have to head to the DeKalb Farmer’s Market to find more international options
It’s Time for Woody Bowl IV!
On the heels of an epic rollercoaster win, Larry Drew and the Atlanta Hawks will face off this evening with Drew’s longtime teammate and the man he assisted on the floor and the sideline for many years.
Former Hawks coach Mike Woodson’s New York Knickerbockers took two of three contests against Atlanta last season, and strolls into Madison Square Garden with his charges (26-15) sitting in second place in the Eastern Conference, but treading water lately.
Dru
Is it possible for a team to run an opponent out of the building? Okay, well, how about two buildings?
The Atlanta Hawks have a chance tonight to run the Boston Celtics out of Philips Arena and, if Coach Doc Rivers is to be believed, out of TD Garden as well.
"I gotta either find the right combination or the right guys, or we're going to get some guys out of here," a clearly nonplussed Doc Rivers declared to the media after his team suffered their third straight loss on Sunday, this time t
These are trying times on Trade Street, as the Charlotte Bobcats (10-31) are coming to understand their lot in life. They’ve won just three of their past 29 NBA contests and are fighting off the awakening Washington Wizards and Cleveland Cavaliers for dead last in the NBA.
Complacency may be setting in for a team that, thanks to its fast start, has already surpassed the worst record in NBA history from the previous season. Now, though, they have a new futility record to fend off.
Since sta
Shall our Atlanta Hawks overcome... or will they once again get rolled like a mighty stream?
The Hawks enter today’s MLK Day game against the Minnesota Timberwolves coming off the league’s worst 10-game stretch (2-8). In successive games, they have dealt with injuries to two guards, Lou Williams (season-ending ligament tear in knee) and now Devin Harris (day-to-day with an ankle sprain). They’re further depleted with Anthony Morrow still out with hip and back issues. After just four appearan
So nice… but can they do it twice?
The Atlanta Hawks put together a solid performance for the home crowd at Philips Arena on Wednesday, outpacing the Brooklyn Nets 109-95 to momentarily stop a slide in the conference standings. Now, the scene shifts to Brooklyn for the Hawks’ debut at Barclays Arena.
Against a team with sketchy perimeter defensive options, Jeff Teague stepped up with 28 points and 11 assists, his career scoring high and his fifth double-double of the season. Devin Harris
He’s baaaaaaaack!
The week-long stretch of Hawkward Reunions continues tonight with J-J-J-J-J-J-Joe Johnson coming back to The Highlight Factory (oh, yeah, you too, Jerry Stackhouse) with the Brooklyn Nets. The six-time All-Star’s return to the Philips Arena floor will likely be met with applause from Atlanta Hawks fans, at least those that remember the not-so-good ole days before he got here. But will his grand return be a triumphant one? This will be a double-dip for the Hawks and Nets, as
The Chicago Bulls hope to follow up two straight disappointing finishes at the United Center with a victory tonight against the Atlanta Hawks. Before a national TV audience on NBA-TV, Chicago is also aiming to overtake the low-hovering Hawks for the 5th seed in the Eastern Conference.
With apologies to the Pacers, the Bulls were perhaps the last impressive victory for the Hawks, winners of just two of their last eight games. The 92-75 win in Atlanta on December 22 kicked off a 4-0 stretch fo
