Duff_Man

So take a player that can't stay off the weed and nightlife and send him from Wisconsin to Atlanta?

That's what I like to call a "Reverse Favre".

Of course there is no one they have honored as much.  No one had nearly as good a career or has devoted their post-playing career to promoting the team.  Who else could they possibly have picked to honor more?  Joe Johnson?  Dikembe 'devoting himself to Houston' Mutombo?  Mookie 'in jail' Blalock?  Nobody compares.  

The only other name I can think of is Kevin Willis. Maybe Pettit or Hudson.

One thing I don't understand is how Ferry could shut down a statue. If the owner of the team wants it and foots the bill, the GM who works for the owner should have nothing to do with it. Was Gearon wanting to use basketball operations money for the statue?

I was curious about this as well. Like what in the world does a GM have to do with putting statues up?

To save you from clicking on an ESPN link:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/boxscore/NBA_20150215_WES@EAS

Millsap is playing worse than Melo right now. Hot garbage

Just can't enjoy anything, huh?

Anthony decided to stink up the joint so he could justify taking the rest of the season off.

Chris Tucker is at a lot of games.

He got suspended for not being able to ( or winning to ) filter the content that he was reading.   He didn't have to read that verbatim, to get a point across that labeled Deng as being "deceptive".   He trusted his former sources in Cleveland and ran with exactly what they wrote.  Had Deng been Jewish and white, and Ferry been Black, that same kind of backlash would've occurred.  His inability to filter what he was reading, is what got him in trouble.

 

Gearon is absolutely a snake for taping that conversation.   Gearon makes an assumption in the e-mail that he wrote to Levenson, telling him to fire Ferry or make him resign.  Gearon's assumption was that the comments "were not from a private conversation — they were in a business environment on a business matter in front of a dozen or more people," . . . "If Ferry would make such a slur in a semi-public forum, we can only imagine what he has said in smaller groups or to individuals."

 

Whether correct or not, that was his assumption.  And if he shared this assumption, others within the organization may have as well.  The situation isn't nearly as cut and dried as some of you make it out to be.  If this was just a simple mistake in "reading" something inappropriate, I believe that he would've only been fined.

 

But the fact that the exiled one stayed silent and didn't even try to defend himself initially, leads me to believe that he possibly could've made things a lot worse for himself and for the Hawks, if he came out and said something in defense of himself.  His "personality" may have shown through, and been the thing that buried him.

 

If new ownership wants him back, he'll be back.  Until then, we are in good hands with Bud making the key personnel decisions for the franchise.  We'll see what kind of contract offer Millsap will get in the summer, if Bud is still the GM, and if he can convince Millsap to come back.

I will say this: They did a fantastic job of just keeping mouths shut. It was the best move they could have made. 

Nene Leakes.

I think some people are generally upset that nobody outside of Atlanta cared about the Ferry "controversy".

It is just not that big of a deal. He is suspended for reading.

GIMMICK INFRINGEMENT!

It's not really a crapshoot. OKC seems to hit damn near most of their 1st round picks. 

Every draft pick in every sport is a crapshoot. If you don't realize this then I don't know what to tell you.

And trying to sell a guy as some sort of NBA failure or washout after a few months is also quite short-sighted for such a message board expert.

I guess Ray turned into a world class rebounder during his downtime.  

I notice you did not mention a free agent that is.

I think of Brand as a back up catcher in baseball. He normally gets in once week or every 6th game. I wish we would use him more especially against a team like Memphis whose bigs were going to work against us. A defensive line-up of Brand vs Randolph and Pero vs Gasol could have slowed them down without having to double as much.

Somebody mentioned how effective Tony allen was well everytime his man double teamed the post he was left free to make a play on the offensive glass or loose balls. Just something to consider. Most teams with a pair of dominate bigs dont have a dirty work wing player because honestly you dont typically need one and they instead opt for an offensive minded floor spacing type shooter. We wont see another team like them but it would still be nice to get Brand more burn down the stretch esp if Pero is giving us nothing on offense and next to nothing on the glass.

Also keep in mind that our sneaky good rebounding "dirty work" guy is out a few more weeks with a strained calf. The rebounding is going to take a dip with Bazemore in place of Thabo. 

Great win and all, but who/what the hell was that guy in the game thread pic with Pekovic? Reminded me of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Interesting that Pero got no time; glad to see Brand knock off the rust.

Pero gets rest in most back to back situations.

I'm still in favor of us benching Pero so he can get his head together, while allowing Payne/Muscala to get some burn tonight against the Wolves.

Well he always sits the second game in back to backs.

In the history of Hawksquawk, I've never seen an overall bad player defended so much on here.  And it's not just on here . . . people LOVE Pero all across Hawknation.  

 

Josh Smith.

I was told there would be no math.

3-0 against Detroit with two of the wins being double digits. What a real problem they are.

It is plain to see that Jenkins is not in the long-term plans. If they have to cut him to bring in Allen, so be it.

We beat Cleveland, Houston and Dallas without Teague, and we beat Portland without Demarre, but I guess that stuff doesn't matter when you want to just bash a team that you supposedly root for.

Atlanta sports fandom: Excuses only count for other teams.

Refs will do their best to keep the hawks out of the finals, hawks are not best for NBA business. NBA is wanting Cavs vs whoever.

If this was even close to true then San Antonio would never make the Finals.

The drama after a rare loss does not disappoint. Kudos, insecure Hawks trolls.

All Star break is next week. They'll get rest. They needed the GS game to show that they are a problem.

Bud did a MASTERFUL job adjusting his subs. Last night was a thing of beauty all around. Bud shows trust in every player and it shows in their confidence.