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This isn't a good deal if we are only getting the 12th pick in return.

1 hour ago, benhillboy said:

NBA players don't realize that Atlanta is second in terms of quality of city life only to cities like Chicago, LA, Washington, and maybe on par with Boston and Philly.  But those cities' media scrutinization are all twice as tough as Atlanta's, if not more.  

I think ESPN's total lack of coverage of the city hurts it's perception of visibility for players.  No AJC writers who represent the city, no bloggers, nothing.  F$@kin Cleveland has not one but two beat writers who appear regularly on Sportscenter.  Cleveland.  Bomani Jones has strong ties to Atlanta but has no allegiance whatsoever to its  teams.

The players make so much money that they can't understand it. Those of us who know Atlanta understand it well because we see so many people from these big market cities wind up moving to...Atlanta. 

The city has grown a lot, even since our playoff streak started and still continues to grow. With us becoming the eastern Hollywood I think somebody will eventually give us "Atlanta--hell why not."

It's cool to see LeBron win win for his home state. One can only hope the next great player lives around Atlanta and feels the same way about our state that LeBron does Ohio.

47 minutes ago, Hawkmoor said:

Game was fixed. I was watching a movie, and apparently, im not the only one who could see it:

There is a TON of twitter comments about this game being fixed, a TON.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/steph-currys-wife-and-just-about-everyone-else-thought-the-nba-rigged-last-nights-game/

 

On paper, game 6 of the NBA Finals Thursday night was one for the ages. Led by the heroics of LeBron James‘ 41 points and a dazzling performance from the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Golden State Warriors were denied a Championship for the second straight game.

And that’s just the problem. The game was almost too good, as if it was… rigged.

That was the heat-of-the-moment accusation late last night fromAyesha Curry, the wife of Warriors stud Steph Curry, moments after watching her husband get ejected in the closing minutes of play after receiving a technical foul. The quickly-deleted Tweet read:

The fourth quarter of the Game 6 sputtered on in bizarre fashion, that’s to be sure. While the Cavs were mounting a strong effort en route to their 115-101 win, Curry — the most important piece of the Warriors incredible season — remarkably fouled out. As head coachSteve Kerr fired off after the loss, “He gets six fouls on him; three were absolutely ridiculous.”

 

I don't think the game was fixed. Cleveland did get the benefit of some calls but that's usually what happens when anyone outside of a few teams play them anyways. We have seen this for years but you only hear about it when GS loses. I really didn't think the officiating was that bad either. Cleveland just outplayed them.

Golden State is used to being the team Cleveland was last night. They always get the calls at home and probably get the same treatment on the road 95% of the time. This is the first time they got treated like a Hawks team and they are just freaking out.  Add in the fact their shots and offense isn't clicking as usual and you just see a frustrated team.

LeBeron was frustrated being down 3-1 and comes out and scores 82 points in two games. How will Golden State respond?

Yup, the guy who has swept us out of the playoffs the last two years and is averaging almost a triple double in the finals is done.

It's only one game but watching him not step up and miss shot after shot in game 5 showed me how I really feel about him. He's going to get overpaid somewhere and it better not be here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we can somewhat easily sign Horford and a max player with moving some money around. I don't think we can easily sign two max players if we renounce the rights to Horf?

I stopped shortly after Sap said we are 'hear'. It might have gotten better but I'm just hoping you have better things to do that you already finished..nonetheless,  thanks?

Just replying to your five..

#5--if we lose to Miami in the first round how does everyone feel? I hate Boston, I'm glad we beat them. If we are swept in the 2nd or 3rd round we still have the same issue--how do you beat LeBron and his current crew? I'm glad it played out the way it did. 

#2--I agree we didn't make great moves at the deadline but I get why we didn't do much. I do wish we had Mack to be our backup PG next year. I wonder what was on the table that we didn't do? 

#1--Splitter was awful. The trade looked good at the time and I do think his injury was a big reason he was so bad. Still, we wasted a lot of money on a guy who looked weaker than Muscala when he did play. I wish we could have used our cap space in a trade for a wing instead.

The picks Cleveland landed when LeBron went to Miami has really made me think about the draft being fixed. Especially when they landed the #1 pick when they were expected to pick around 7/8 (LeBrons FA year).

I bet there is some randomness to it, but if something needs to be done somebody can make it happen.

2 hours ago, JayBirdHawk said:

Never heard if this guy, some interesting points.

All I could  think about was why the hell did we lay an egg against a depleted Washington Wizards teams. We could have  been the 3rd seed playing the Raptors. Except  Bud in his wisdom says 'We don't  care where we end up" #%!!#€#$!@. Smh

Thanks for posting the article. I still disagree with the 3rd seed argument because I'm not sure we would have advanced past the Heat. We were 1-3 against them.

I get the whole ownership thing with what we have been through, but I still think some forget we just got new owners. The ASG were our owners less than a year ago..

It really comes down to the Cavs getting their way on the court..every single time. The Cavs don't own us, LeBron does. 

21 minutes ago, terrell said:

Milsap and Horford are str8 garbage.   All-Stars? lmao...Time to break this thing up.  And Kyle Korver just needs to retire..Hard to watch him hobble around out there...

Come on man. I don't think most of us on here think we have enough talent to actually win a title this year. Millsap and Horf are all-stars. Korver is a very good player too. 

It's up to our new owners to make us great. I think the Cavs have about 30 million more in payroll. That's a lot of talent..

Hell yeah! Still 24 to go...

Nice run! Let's close this half strong. 

Yeah, Al had two quick fouls. We have allowed 5 points on two sets of two missed free throws. I'm used to them getting 5 shots until they score but that is awful.

4 minutes ago, Lurker said:

Sefolosha starting is a completely horrible idea. I wanted to see Scott/Humphries at the 4 and Millsap move down to the 3.

Hopefully that is a lineup we see at some point during the game. We know Bud is more likely to start a guy who has played in all of our playoff games over Humphries. 

Jalen Rose sounding excited, "Domique is in the building."

Yeah, he pretty much always is.

Win tonight and a game 4 win is possible. Lose tonight and we probably get swept, again..

7 minutes ago, Spud2Nique said:

Awesome as always lw3!!!

14 free throws for us and only 8 for the Cavs? We need those NBA 2K officials!

I guess Xfinity thought that we had no shot of beating the Celtics in a playoff series. I went to record the game and look who they have playing on channel 841.

For those of you who follow the Hawks on Facebook, there are some good videos of the players and Bud talking about the series. It's probably somewhere else too. Really good stuff--I like our mindset.

I watched all season long. Sorry for those folks in our city that somehow found something better to watch.