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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.

Is Dr Z still a season tix holder ? He would know when the deadline is for season tix holders to retain rights to their seats for the playoffs. That will answer the conspiracey theory.

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.

Warriors to sign C Kwame Brown to 1-year, $7 million deal, source tells Y! Sports.

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.

We make trades: Bibby, Kurt, and Joe. We just don't make the superstar deals. I think the last two GMs of the Hawks have locked into our current core. So in the absence of an obvious deal, they have preferred to keep our current core intact.

With the league vetoing trades to large markets, Paul might have to end-up with a small market team. I am pretty sure we would have to include Horford in any deal though.

This is way to slanted torwards Atlanta. I'd do this deal even if Dwight would not agree to sight with us.

There is alot of anti-Nate posts here. But I remember Nate dropping 40+ on Bibby one night in Phillips. I also remember him winning a playoff game for Boston one year. As a third point guard and a third shooting guard, I think he will be fine.

For us to drop down, all the teams above us have to stay put and teams below us have to move up. With all the back-to-backs, I don't see Orlando, Boston and New York doing great with their current roster. Howard can't go 40 mins a night as Orlando's only big man. Boston is aging. And outside of Carmelo, Stoudemire and Billups, New York has: Turiaf, Balkman, Toney Douglas, and Landry Fields.

This is definitely not the year we fall off.

Looking at these trades:

Al Horford and MW for Granger and Hibbert.

This has an advantage for Atlanta--Granger is a special player. I actually like him better than Carmelo.

Al Horford and MW for Hibbert, Paul George, Hansbrough, and Posey (expiring)

This is an advantage for Indiana. Horford is the best player in the bunch.

ZaZa and JS for Hibbert, Paul George, Hansbrough, and Posey (expiring)

This is a slight advantage for Indiana. JS and Zaza both have pretty good contracts. I also don't know if Hibbert can replace Josh's blocks, low-post scoring and excitement. I've had not watched him enough.

For the right trade, I'd even take a one year rental on CP3.

I don't mind this trade. I think Harden would be a good fit and also give us some room to make other moves.

We are probably looking at Damien Wilkins, Jason Collins and/or Mario West. Our big advantage is that the team has been together for a number of years so we might as well keep that trend.

In the Supreme Court case on NFL licensing, the Court said that some level of collective action that might otherwise be illegal would likely be legal in the case of sports leagues because of the need for those types of elements to make the league successful. There is no guidance at all as to what those might be, though, and a salary cap is probably not one of the types of collective action that a court would approve without a collective bargaining agreement with the player's union (IMO). For that reason, I would assume that if the NBA does open its doors for business after an anti-trust lawsuit is filed that there would be no salary cap.

Adding on to this, I think the bigger issue in a post CBA world would be the legal issues amongst the owners. Many owners, in markets that most of the money, would not want a salary cap. The league would have to have some enforcement mechanism for the cap and I don't see big markets owners conceding to such. As previously stated, they do make most of the money for the NBA.