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They fall for it every time.....the Hawks never trade for "superstars"! This is a franchise very well known around the league for trading picks and exchanging cash.

Trade has not been approved by the league nor have players physicals been passed.

30 year old Horford this year.....15ppg & 7rpg 26 year old Ibaka this year.....13ppg & 7rpg The 30 year old wants a max.....hhhmmm....which one do I want???? Also, Ibaka did that being a 3rd scorer at BEST for OKC.

If it involves trading one of the 1st's I would and let Horford walk.

You are right about that....that would further let us know they STILL have no idea how to successfully run a franchise!

Here are two rumors(if you wanna call them that).....#1 - KD as has been discussed to GS(a rumor in a circle or two of people today is that Curry, Green & Durant exchanged some texts this morning about the upcoming season and them playing together.....also Green is pissed with harrison barnes and his play so they feel he is expendable. Also the guy that this came from said it came from KD's trainer that he knows #2 - Lebron to L.A.(another rumor is that family is getting the kids enrolled in private school now) Nothing concerning the Hawks....as of yet....let the offseason officially begin!

Scratch those guys off the list....Fizdale is putting together a damn good staff in Memphis: 6/9/16 Marc Stein - Interesting staff assembled by Fizdale in Memphis with two ex-head coaches beside him in Keith Smart and J.B. Bickerstaff as well as Nick Van Exel

The truth you spoke is the truth!! Kawhi would be the perfect fit but unfortunately for us, he is not leaving San Antonio for a while.

ESPN sources say there is strong confidence within the Cavs' organization that they are in prime position to win the Joe Johnson Sweepstakes - Marc Stein

sorry...the correct site....www.goatdee.net

www.goatedee.net Find the game in the list....click on it....and just close the advertisement window(if it makes you) when the countdown ends and enjoy...pat me on the back later!

http://espn.go.com/blog/nba/post/_/id/8242/report-hawks-add-two-trainers-from-warriors-staff

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/the-hawks-can-fly-but-when-will-they-soar/ Pretty good read....seems like optimism is high. Here are a few excerpts from the article: The Spurs in 2013 and 2014 might not have had a top-10 player, but Tim Duncan and Tony Parker in those seasons were closer to that discussion than the current versions of Horford and Jeff Teague. Kawhi Leonard is better than any Atlanta wing, and the gap in bench talent is enormous — even assuming a full return to health for Thabo Sefolosha. The Hawks won’t ever be as good as the 2014 Spurs, but they should approach this offseason with a confidence that what they are building could lead to something greater than a conference finals loss. You can frame this season as a failure if you want — as a reaffirmation that the half-dozen best individual talents can beat a cute team that doesn’t have one. The Hawks won’t do that, and they shouldn’t. They are on to something, and if they upgrade in the right ways, they could absolutely push for the Finals next season. How many foundational superstars are there, really? How many players could do what LeBron has done in carrying a mediocre supporting cast to the Finals — even in the East? We know by now that Carmelo Anthony can’t. Kevin Love can’t. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul can’t. The Heat, with two All-Stars, fell into the abyss without James. There might be three players on earth who can do what James just did: LeBron, Kevin Durant, and, in a year or two, Anthony Davis. And even Durant hasn’t gotten through two rounds without his costar. The Hawks won 60 games, they could have won 65, and they obliterated the Western Conference when they were rolling in the winter. Sure, it’s only the regular season, but you don’t go on runs like that if you don’t havesomething that really works — something that confounds opponents. Grudgingly, the Hawks admit that the playoffs are a different animal, and that dialed-in defenses gummed up a system that had run so freely in January. They schemed for Korver, who couldn’t find nearly as many open shots. “It’s just harder in the playoffs,” Korver says. “Teams take stuff away. But that’s part of our growth — that understanding that if they take something away, other opportunities open up.” “You have to get beat down a couple of times before you get to the top,” Korver says. “This was one of those moments for us.” The Cavaliers were the first team to really dare Atlanta to beat them with jump shots — a brilliant move from David Blatt, who rarely gets any credit for anything. They ducked under screens on Teague pick-and-rolls, walling off his penetration and allowing their own big men to stick with Horford and Paul Millsap instead of sliding over to help. Horford and Millsap tore apart defenses on free rolls to the rim when teams trapped Teague, but that option suddenly evaporated against Cleveland. Bad news: Upgrading the roster is going to be hard. Everyone lauded the Hawks for landing Millsap and DeMarre Carroll on cheap two-year contracts, but the short length of those deals is coming back to haunt them now. (Atlanta offered both longer contracts at the time, per sources familiar with the matter.) Teams can typically go over the salary cap to re-sign their own players, a rule that provides more flexibility in chasing other free agents, but teams have a reduced version of that right for guys on one- and two-year deals. To wit: Millsap’s maximum salary will be about $18.9 million, meaning that if Millsap wants his max — or thinks he can get it from another team — the Hawks will have to dip into their cap room to pay him. If Atlanta goes over the cap, it can sign Millsap to a deal starting at only $16.6 million per season. And if they use $19 million in cap space on Millsap, they would not have enough left over to re-sign Carroll.2 Even trading one low-cost player to clear space might not be enough. If Millsap is cool taking that $16.6 million, the Hawks can keep his cheaper cap hold on the books and work their way to something like $12 million in space to use on Carroll — or a replacement — before re-signing Millsap Dipping under the cap will also leave them with the cheapo $2.8 million room exception, worth about half the midlevel exception that teams over the cap get to use. The Hawks could still land a useful bench guy on a one-year deal with that money, and Gary Neal is one name to watch. If some team really wanted to screw the Hawks, it could offer Millsap a two-year, $40 million deal, which would allow Millsap to get back into free agency when the cap skyrockets again in 2017, when he’ll be 32. Power forward is loaded around the league, but it’s not hard to find a team that might splurge on Millsap. He’d be a nice consolation prize for Portland3or San Antonio if LaMarcus Aldridge lands elsewhere, and the Lakers and Knicks loom with gobs of money. The Raptors and Pistons stand as intriguing options in the East. Toronto would have to renounce both Amir Johnson and Lou Williams to chase Millsap, and it’s unclear if it wants to go all in next season. Millsap is a little old for Detroit’s timeline, but he’d be perfect spotting up around Reggie Jackson–Andre Drummond pick-and-rolls, and rival executives get the sense that Stan Van Gundy wants to start winning now. The Hawks have been intrigued before with Greg Monroe, and if Millsap wants all the cash he can get, you can bet Atlanta would look at a Millsap-Monroe double sign-and-trade. Monroe can’t defend or space the floor like Millsap, but he’s a bruiser who can get buckets in the post, and Budenholzer would love his passing. Budenholzer doesn’t want to hear about changes. He wants to bring back the same group, “or darn close to it.” “It’s a helluva group,” he says. “The fiber, the minds we have — it all fits well.” It’s tempting to suggest that the Hawks should look for a cheaper alternative for Carroll or Millsap, or even consider using Millsap’s salary slot to chase a center — an Omer Asik type who would allow Horford to shift back to power forward. Brandon Bass or David West could work as cheaper placeholders if Atlanta gets cold feet signing Millsap to a four-year, $80 million max deal that would carry him toward age 35. But those guys are demonstrably worse players, and there just aren’t many guys 6-foot-10 and taller with the passing vision and overall feel to play in Budenholzer’s system. On the Carroll front, 3-and-D wings have gotten so expensive that finding a cheaper facsimile might be impossible without risking a massive downgrade. That risk isn’t worth it — not with a team this good in a conference this bad. The Hawks probably won’t win 60 games next season, but with the right internal leaps and fringe roster tweaks, they could emerge as a more well-rounded playoff team. Dennis Schröder will get better. Mike Muscala is on the verge of cracking the rotation ahead of Mike Scott and Pero Antić. They might get better injury luck in April and May. They’ll have both the no. 15 pick and a tiny slice of cap flexibility to snag another rotation cog. Even if they fall short again — and that’s the most likely outcome for literally every team — the Hawks could enter the summer of 2016 with Horford’s Bird rights and max-level cap space to lure another big player. Think about how good that team could be. These Hawks blew apart the perception that Atlanta is a drab market with a drab team — a place no top free agent would ever consider. Players around the league took notice of what happened in Atlanta this season. Losing to LeBron doesn’t invalidate what they accomplished or sentence them to permanent also-ran status. The road is harder for the Hawks than it is for any team with a top-10 superstar, but it’s a road they got far along this season, and one they’re excited to continue walking. “I’ve been on teams where it’s all about one guy,” Korver says. “This is way more fun. I believe in this vision, and I think we’re eventually gonna get it done.”

Money post!

Something is not adding up....we don't need distractions like this popping up now.....

Where is the leader at to put this team on their shoulders and leads us to a ECF?????

True sentence as it relates to this team!

Peoria you are spot on with this one.

Kristaps Porzingis....very likely.

When we did NOTHING at the trade deadline, I knew it was bad news. Teams now have a great sample size of game tape to watch of us lately and game plan for. The first round will NOT be a gimme....just watch.

Not sure why my post shows 4 times...I guess time got me like the Hawks.

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