CNN - Summer Winners & Losers - Hawks Notes

[AHF]

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Winner: Steve Belkin

His unwillingness to trade Boris Diaw last summer was proven correct during the 2005-06 season. Then after being forced out by his fellow owners in Atlanta, he wins a court battle that might lead to those owners being forced to sell him the team after all.

Loser: Billy Knight

Maybe the Hawks GM has been handcuffed somewhat by the organization's front office confusion, but he sure has moved slowly on the Al Harrington trade. Meanwhile, his refusal to shake Belkin's hand last year won't help him if the Boston businessman takes over.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...s.losers/1.html

[WraithSentinel]

Why can't the media be ban from ever speaking of the Hawks.

[drzachary]

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Executive

Winner: Steve Belkin

His unwillingness to trade Boris Diaw last summer was proven correct during the 2005-06 season. Then after being forced out by his fellow owners in Atlanta, he wins a court battle that might lead to those owners being forced to sell him the team after all.

Loser: Billy Knight

Maybe the Hawks GM has been handcuffed somewhat by the organization's front office confusion, but he sure has moved slowly on the Al Harrington trade. Meanwhile, his refusal to shake Belkin's hand last year won't help him if the Boston businessman takes over.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...s.losers/1.html

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Yet another absolutely ignorant take on the Diaw thing, from someone who clearly never saw him play here.

CNNSI is a JOKE.

[Plainview1981]

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Executive

Winner: Steve Belkin

His unwillingness to trade Boris Diaw last summer was proven correct during the 2005-06 season. Then after being forced out by his fellow owners in Atlanta, he wins a court battle that might lead to those owners being forced to sell him the team after all.

Loser: Billy Knight

Maybe the Hawks GM has been handcuffed somewhat by the organization's front office confusion, but he sure has moved slowly on the Al Harrington trade. Meanwhile, his refusal to shake Belkin's hand last year won't help him if the Boston businessman takes over.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...s.losers/1.html

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Yet another absolutely ignorant take on the Diaw thing, from someone who clearly never saw him play here.

CNNSI is a JOKE.

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Dudes love to suck rich dudes d*ck. Why does this surprise you? All these guys think Belkin is something great.

[Popeye]

The sad thing is that if we didn't trade Diaw we would be a 15 win team.

So either way Billy would loose.

That's so stupid.

[Packfill]

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The sad thing is that if we didn't trade Diaw we would be a 15 win team.

So either way Billy would loose.

That's so stupid.

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Billy Knight may be the biggest loser in all of this. If Belkin wins ownership then it is a given BK gets the boot. Problem is, if BK doesn't put a winner on the floor this season then his chance of landing a new GM job is pretty bad because his 6+ years of GMing two different franchises will result in zero winning seasons.

I hope he has some money in the bank.

As for the original article, anything that includes Belin and winner in the same sentence is bad news for the Hawks.

[Lascar78]

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his chance of landing a new GM job is pretty bad because his 6+ years of GMing two different franchises will result in zero winning seasons.

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I don't think this is true at all. I don't think that this is any more true than saying that Stotts would never get a job because his only coaching stint was with us with a horrible record. Front offices look at more than just record.

They know BK's two real shots have both been rebuilds, and that rebuilds almost lead to bad records (initially) by definition. He has shown that he can clear a roster, he can draft pretty well, he is very shrewd financially and will not saddle you with bad contracts. He has not really shown that he can take the final steps of moving beyond the rebuild to putting a true winner together, but people won't just look at the record and assume that he's horrible.

People know what his pros and cons are.

[NJHAWK]

Actually Belkin was more than willing to trade Diaw and the Lakers pick. He just didnt want to give up next years lottery pick. Of corse that could be because he never wanted to pay Joe 70mil.

[CBAreject]

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Dudes love to suck rich dudes d*ck

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That's going in my signature.