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  6. Brandon Jennings to Detroit

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    Not sure if this belongs here but since we were in talks with the Bucks and Pistons have Jbrick, I figured people would be interested.

    http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9522945/detroit-pistons-acquire-brandon-jennings-sign-trade-milwaukee-bucks-according-sources

    Sources close to the situation told ESPN.com on Tuesday that the Detroit Pistons have agreed to a sign-and-trade deal that will net Jennings, a restricted free agent, a new three-year contract worth in excess of $25 million.

    The Bucks will receive guard Brandon Knight, forward Khris Middleton and center Viacheslav Kravtsov, two sources told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.

  8. Hawks Pre-Season Power Ranking in East

    in Homecourt

    Posted · Edited by RonMexico

    6. Atlanta Hawks (2012-13 finish: 6th)

    The general public probably responded to the Hawks' offseason with a resounding "meh," but there's a good chance that the post-Josh Smithera will pick up where it left off. Paul Millsap remains one of the more underappreciated players in the league (seriously, how did he sign for just $19 million?) and the rest of the core remains intact, including supersub Lou Williams, who missed the end of last season with a torn ACL.

    The additions of summer league standout Dennis Schröder and Elton Brand should bolster their bid to crash the top-four party, but they'll happily take the sixth seed without Smith.

    Do you guys think this is accurate? I love that they keep talking about Schröder and Millsap in a very positive light.

    Also to clarify. we finished 6th in 2012/13 and they're predicting us in the 6th spot again.

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    Hawks Going Full Speed Into Transition Game

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    Posted · Edited by RonMexico

    http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/page/dime-130719/daily-dime

    For the Atlanta Hawks -- for years defined by their inability to transcend mid-seed purgatory -- a little uncertainty has to feel like a bit of a reprieve. Moving forward after the departure of Josh Smith, the Hawks are a team loaded with value contracts and intriguing young players. It's a construction that affords the flexibility so many teams crave, but almost no certainty about the team's future.

    And yet, despite letting Josh Smith walk and stocking the cupboard with tantalizing prospects, the Hawks are a far cry from tanking. They replaced Smith with Paul Millsapon a deal that makes cap nerds salivate; he makes just $9.5 million for the next two years, a pittance for a player of his quality and an almost entirely painless contract length.In Vegas, the Hawks possess two of the most intriguing rookies and a player in John Jenkins who figures to have a spot in the team's plans as a knockdown shooter. Rookie point guardDennis Schröder was drafted the spot after Brazilian center Lucas Nogueira in the first round, and the two rooks together don't have 40 years between them. Schröder has been the darling of Summer League with his preternaturally mature game, and though Nogueira is likely a few seasons away from regular rotation duties, the Hawks nonetheless boast a cache of promising youth many teams would envy.

    They matched Jeff Teague's offer sheet from Milwaukee to retain the point guard for four years at $32 million -- a deal that, like Millsap's, seems so reasonable as to be a shock amongst the contracts that free-agency arms races often produce. In short, the Hawks have spent the summer locking in a 25-year-old starting point guard and one of the league's most efficient scoring power forwards for less than Zach Randolph is owed.

    What's more, they continue to employ Al Horford at one of the league's best values, have signed Kyle Korver for $6 million a season and will pay Lou Williams a shade less to provide a little bench combustibility. If it's possible, this team is excessively frugal, awash in solvency. For a squad locked into the enormity of Joe Johnson's deal and Josh Smith's caprice just one year ago, the Hawks enjoy a confluence of talent and frugality few teams can match.

    A major factor in this course shift is GM Danny Ferry, who was hired a little over a year ago. Ferry seemed to announce his intentions with the Johnson trade, and in swapping Millsap's contract for Josh Smith, to have nearly realized his vision. Or at least, his vision of the cap sheet. How the team will compete, exactly, is an open question, which means that the Hawks' enviable ledger must be more transitional phase than final goal. Hence, the crossroads.

    Horford, Millsap, and Teague form a nice core, but they are nobody's idea of a murderers' row; with the depth Atlanta has amassed, the Hawks have every reason to be confident of a playoff berth, but without more firepower it seems that even their previously inevitable 4-seed might be asking a bit much.

    Similarly, Schröder and Nogueira have the makings of a long, athletic and fluid pair of franchise players, but both are years away from warranting that sort of commitment. In trying to stay young while competing in the postseason, it's impossible to have the best of both worlds, but the Hawks have pulled off something close. It remains to be seen which of the worlds has more gravitational pull.

    One of the lessons of this offseason is that amassing talent can pay off big even if the talent doesn't necessarily mesh perfectly, as the Rockets demonstrated by turning their stockpile of desirable young players into the superstar they'd been pursuing. The Hawks' questions of fit are not so much an on-court issue as an organizational one --- you can think of their assets as conflicting positions in the game of roster building.

    Will the Hawks try to split organizational touches, between their young but developing players and their veteran stalwarts? Is that even the game? Perhaps Atlanta's future looks like that of a few other teams starting over with smart management: fringe competition, a revolving door to the locker room, and a constant effort to land one of the league's crown jewels. But for a team that had been locked into a level two steps above mediocrity, the devil they don't know is likely the one they prefer.

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  21. No more interest in Nikola Pekovic?

    in Homecourt

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    There's more to playing SF than hitting 3's. But Millsap has been a good 3pt shooter, he just doesn't take many. When I say that he'd get minutes at SF I'm talking maybe 10-12 minutes there a game at the most.

    yeah... except that Millsap has actually played SF in the NBA and done well at it, in limited minutes.

    Except he has, and has done it well.

    Some of you guys like to type stuff without actually doing any research and it's really unfair to the casual fans here.

    I see that he's played a few games at Small forward and his stats dropped? I'd love to see where he played small forward well (not being a d*ck, I would genuinely be happy if he could play it)

    But things haven’t completely gone Millsap’s way over stretches. His role has switched from power forward, his preferred spot, to small forward and back. His scoring has dropped from a 17.3 average two years ago to 14.3. His shooting percentage, which over his career sits at 52 percent, is at 46. In the past 10 games, it’s at 40 percent.

    http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/jazz/55416309-87/millsap-favors-game-team.html.csp

  25. Where the hell is Ivan?

    in Homecourt

    Posted · Edited by RonMexico

    Why didn't we resign Ivan immediately?

    I've always felt like he could be our starting small forward / back up PF. He can attack the rim, shoot mid-range, and hustles. There were numerous times where he looked like the best player on the team.

    I don't keep up with everything so there might be a very good reason? I know he's had issues outside of the court.

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