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I can't imagine that Indiana would change their team at this point. They are not that far from winning a title.

After this historically bad playoff run, I am not that high on Perkins: http://deadspin.com/kendrick-perkins-had-a-historically-bad-playoff-run-507518143

15 Million is high for Jefferson (roughly 25% of the cap). I hope we are not waiting in line to pay him that.

This seems reasonable, but we are still giving up a smaller guard for a bigger one as well as trading PFs. So I don't know if this makes us balanced.

I think what helps the "super" teams is the way playoff games are spaced. Teams used to need depth because they only got a night off when they traveled. Now, in the first round, you might have three days between games. However, I don't think super teams are unbeatable--we can still compete.

Getting back to the original question, I think the offense runs through Teague and his ability to get into the paint. I think that he gets much more agressive.Also, I don't think we trade iso-Joe for iso-Josh. Overall, I see a very balanced attack with more pick-n-rolls. I think a more efficient Josh will likely be our 20 pt scorer.

]That deadline has already passed...I believe it was March 23rd officially.

Agreed. These were definitely the right cuts. Hawks management and coaching staff were waiting for those guys to step and make a statement. Only Ivan Johnson did and the others did not.

He hustled and scored in a variety of ways. I also did not see any errant passes on offense. There were a couple of miscues on defense, but it's hard to say whose fault it was. This guy is definitely worth signing.

I'll be there. It will be my first opening night.

That's insane. And I believe he is from Brunswick, GA.

The one advantage we have is that we are a small market team. Stern would be very happy to see Paul go to a small market.

I haven't seem this mentioned much, but we are at least 9 players deep. Teague, T-Mac, Collins and Zaza will be getting alot of minutes in addition to last years starters. In this kind of season, this will be big. Even if the Knicks got better with Chandler over Billups, they are not very deep (maybe 6 at this point). We are also relatively young which Boston is not. The Pacers are interesting, but they are going to need some time to learn to play together which we will not--pretty much everyone has been together for 2-3 years. I think it would be disappointing if we are not a top 4 seed.

Any source on this?

Hard to say--with Hamilton coming, they don't really need Crawford.