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Haven't posted here in a while, but I'm finding this Horford situation kind of odd. For as long as I've been a Hawks fan, I can't really remember our team getting any respect because we had Al Horford. I don't remember feeling like teams ever feared him. I definitely never considered him a superstar or anywhere near it, nor do I remember anyone else considering him a superstar. Now that he leaves us, he is a superstar. Where did that come from? Where are we setting the bar for the word superstar these days? In this NBA, if you want to win a championship, Al has to be your 3rd best player. He's not a game changer, nobody is game planning for Al Horford. I'm glad we are turning the page on "our most successful decade" or whatever people are calling it. That was incredibly frustrating and sad for a team's most successful decade. Squeaking into the playoffs and getting bounced easily in round 1 or 2. I'm not a fan of Dwight, but either he turns into the Dwight of old and we are a really good team or he sucks, Millsap leaves, and we rebuild. We weren't winning anything by building around Al, so might as well try something new.

What do you mean by clown? He seemed like a pretty normal guy to me.

He may forgive him publicly, but probably still bashes him behind closed doors.

Exactly.

Wow. How many banners did nique get us?

The arena is more or less ready to be built. I believe hansen already has almost all of the land needed to build it. They just aren't going to build an arena without a team first. The stadium is not really going to be publicly funded either. I don't remember all the details, I knew them at one point. It's more of a loan and should require nothing from taxpayers. If anything, people are more worried about traffic that a new arena downtown would bring. We also still have Key Arena (the storm still play there), which would get some updates and would be used until the new arena is built. We lost Ballmer, but we still have the Nordstroms However, I'd hate for the Hawks to relocate. I'd rather get an expansion team or take the bucks or something.

I'm a lifer.

Woah I totally missed that ferry got fired.

What were you right about?

I think the worst part of this now is that if I have to give up on the hawks because of this mess, it will basically be because of gearon.

What would be the point of that?

Someone mentioned in one of these threads, maybe this one, how no other teams or owners are really speaking out about this. I think a lot of people around the league are realizing that this could just as easily have happened to them. Lawyers for sterling have said that this is just the beginning. I bet we aren't the last team to go through something like this this off season.

Im a huge nique fan, but I can see hesitation on building a statue for him. Not to be a smart ass but how many guys have statues that have never even made a conference finals? In a way, it's like a celebration of our historical mediocrity.

"No longer a guessing game" is the title, followed by guesses. "I think".. Not facts.

I disagree with that. I've heard Charles Barkley say why he hates white people on national TV. I've heard shaq make racist remarks far worse than anything ferry said. Both of those guys are prominently featured on NBA shows. If you don't know what I'm referring to, it's Shaq's message to yao ming, something like "Ching Ching ya ya ying".