David Aldridge offseason winners

[Plainview1981]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/stor...avid&id=1844534

He has Golden State on this list? I bet he has the Hawks

on his losers list!

[Nicholasp27]

he put hawks 24th place

lol@that

[UncleOJ]

Even funnier than that is his assessment of the Raptors, in which he includes Pete Babcock as part of Toronto's "terrific braintrust". It's amazing the years and years of futility that come with having a "terrific braintrust" as your GM.

[AHF]

He actually had almost nothing negative to say about the Hawks despite their low ranking:

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The Hawks are about the future, with a new ownership group, Atlanta Spirit, taking over from Time Warner. It's a strong team, with Steve Belkin and Bruce Levenson at the top. Bernie Mullin will run the team as president, and his first decision was a good one -- leaving GM Billy Knight alone to continue the rebuilding effort. Knight brought Mike Woodson in from Detroit to be head coach, and Woodson is putting together a solid staff that includes Herb Brown and Larry Drew, who still deserves to get a chance to run his own team. But that's another story. Woodson will do well if ownership is patient. Given time, he and Knight will put a good roster together. They ached for Dwight Howard, but the ping-pong balls didn't bounce that way, so Knight went for solid if unspectacular in Childress. Harrington will get the opportunity to start and put up numbers that he didn't have in Indiana. The Hawks will struggle next season, but they should have a lot of cap room next summer, and will likely be a bigger player in free agency.

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[Packfill]

I don't have a problem with what he said about the Hawks (everyone said the same things about Utah last year) but to put the Warriors so high up is ridiculous.

[AHF]

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I don't have a problem with what he said about the Hawks (everyone said the same things about Utah last year) but to put the Warriors so high up is ridiculous.

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No arguments from me. Their offseason has probably been the worst of any team in the league. They lost some talent and added contracts that will be an albatross around their neck.

[Weez]

love the albatross quote. Can I get a little Coleridge on that ass!