Well,

After the quick bolt that we call Josh Childress (Chillz for short) to Europe. It's safe to say that he won't be a Hawk again. It's just too enticing for the ownership to trade childress' rights to someone else. Moreover, I don't see what's stopping him from becoming a mega star in Europe. That being the case, instead of arguing about how petty and cheap our owners were or how greedy Chillz was, I guess it's safe to say that none of that matters for the moment. That's not to say ASG won't be cheap again... Because they will. But that's to say the Childress story is over.

In my mind. Childress was the hardest working player on our team. When you watched him work the baseline, work without the ball, bring the ball up and do whatever it was that needed doing, you could see the versatility that BK wished for. BK wasn't always on point with his picks, however, I think he got the Childress selection right. I think that Childress was just the guy we needed to play besides Smoove. There you had a mix of a mature mellow guy and a immature guy right out of HS who did so badly on face to face interviews with teams that he dropped from 3 overall to 16. I just thought that we would always have that Ying and Yang of Chillz and Smoove. Like Ice and Fire. Like Day and Night. Their games were very different, but at the same time, they complimented each other. Mainly because Chillz could get rebounds and make himself useful by scoring underneath... whereas Smoove seems to have a problem working hard for those baskets.

The one thing about Childress that stands out is the way he approached life. I mean he loved shoes. He didn't seem serious most of the time, yet to me, he seemed to be a leader. A leader by example. He didn't bark at guys, but he just went out there and said "my team needs X, Y, or Z.. and I will give them X, Y, or Z." People forget him carrying Standford to a 21-2 record. People forget that in the uptempo game he's probably the most dangerous player in Atlanta. People would rather focus on his stroke... and not the fact that he hit the shot most of the time... In his second year he was basically 50% from three!!

Anyway... Best of Luck... See ya in the future!!!