Mutombolievable

Other players are upset that Trae got that super max for making all-nba. 

Mazel tov!

Devin Harris Signs $1.3M Deal With Mavericks Weeks After Agreeing To $3M AnnuallyMinimum deal. He was worth that much to stay with the Hawks.

Wow, I really wish we could have brought him back. He was great for us last year. He's worth more than 1.3mil a year too.

our prayers have been answered. the legend wants to play another season!

Can we sign NBA center Danillo Gallinari? He is only 1 inch shorter than Pero Antić and is the same height as Ayón. Maybe Toni Kukoc would be cheaper?

Wow, never knew he was that tall.

The only player in the MLB who should be making Pujols' kind of money is Miguel Cabrera.

There's no doubt in my mind that he's the best player in baseball. But, if the Tigers sign a guy that's half the price and let Miggy walk, how many less games do you think they win? Is it that big a difference? With that extra money could they go out and get another piece that actually makes their team even better?

In the NBA I understand why some guys make 20mil a year and others make 1. The individual player is now almost bigger than the team in the NBA. I don't really see that as much in baseball.

Does Albert Pujols prove that no position player in the MLB is worth the kind of money he makes? Look at the Cardinals, they lose Pujols in FA to the Angels yet who has the best record in the NL? Pujols is widely known as a top 5 hitter in the league yet the Cards are still killing it without him. Is any position player, not pitcher, really able to change the game so much that they deserve to make a billion dollars?

Colin...come back. There is hope!

this is the first time ive ever watched an "unconverted assists highlight video." will also be the last time I watch an "unconverted assists highlight video"

There's no doubt that he has great court vision and is able to start and stop on a dime. If he can improve his jumper he could really turn out to be a good player in the league.

Golden State says high.Golden State says hi.

Good point. So that's obviously inaccurate.

I think the NBA has some rule now where the uni's have to be general names or cities. That's why we don't have pac-man or the old hawk flying jerseys, Toronto doesn't have the raptor, Minnesota with the wolf head and so on. I'm fairly certain I heard it's a rule from master stern.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9501245/nba-offseason-moves-assessing-winners-tankers-everything-between

I like the Teague vs. Calderon contract comparison. I also like how we have yet another person that doesn't understand how we got Millsap so cheap.

Atlanta Hawks

On the surface, the Hawks and Mavericks appear to have had similar offseasons. Both inked several secondary players to contracts of varying lengths after striking out with the big-name free agents, all while maintaining major flexibility for next summer and beyond. The difference: Atlanta signed good players (mostly) on the right side of the aging curve at great prices. Jeff Teague will make only about $1 million more per season on average than Jose Calderon over their respective four-year deals; Calderon is almost 32 and it's been years since he was able to guard anyone or get into the lane. Teague just turned 25 and still has some upside. Kyle Korver might be "too old" for a four-year deal at 32, but the value of his contract declines each season, and he brings the one skill — shooting — that ages better than any other. And I have no idea how Danny Ferry brainwashed Paul Millsap into accepting a two-year, $19 million deal.

These are all tradable pieces (as is Lou Williams's deal), and the Hawks remain one midsize salary dump from entering the next offseason with max-level cap room — again. They should remain competitive in the meantime, though they'll miss Josh Smith's ability to create shots on offense and protect the rim on defense.²

Dennis Schröder, the point guard Atlanta drafted at no. 17, also looks like a quality rotation piece, but almost any summer league extrapolations belong in footnote form

For those of you who are summer league fans like myself, this is a good read. They even give our two first rounders big time props. Enjoy!

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/69166/six-degrees-of-summer-league

Look back at this all–summer league rookie team from 2009. Austin Daye! Jonny Flynn! Behold the future! And then at the bottom of the rookie list there's Steph Curry, who hit fewer than one-third of his shots and had people "at least a little bit concerned" about his NBA future.

So yeah, at least as far as the big-name rookies, let's agree to wait and see.**

[*I'm a Wizards fan, and you're damn right I'm pretending Otto Porter's terrible summer league never happened. If I never look at a box score from the first five days of Vegas, the Wizards are still destined to dominate by 2016.]

[**One exception is the summer Hawks. Dennis Schröder and Lucas Nogueira are perfect already. We should all become Hawks fans while there's still time.]

I think you lost Mutombo there but I like where your head is at!

Naw man I got it. I just wanted to then give my actually Hawks opinion. You don't you throw it to who!?

I think the correct answer is "Naturally". (probably have taken a little too far)

Ha. I think it'll be Korver.

When we pass the ball for a corner 3 who gets it?

The guy that's in the corner. Am I right about this Dolf?

I'll make another thread about this in like 9 months just as a reminder to get ur plane tix, etc. just wanted to know if people would be interested. I think it might be fun.:-)

Seriously, 1st annual Squawkacon in Vegas. I'm on board.

Whoa! You just bumped this from 03?! Good stuff.

Sounds like a plan to me

The team as is, barring injury: 44-38 and a 7th seed.

If we pick another wing player that can score (Turkoglu) and a backup center (Mozgov or Dalembert), I would predict 52-30 and a 3rd seed.

C - Horford/(Mozgov, Dalembert)/Muscala/Bebe

PF - Millsap/Horford/Scott/Muscala

SF - Turkolou/Carroll/Korver

SG - Korver/Jenkins/Lou

PG - Teague/Lou/Schröder

Ferry could very well pull the same move he pulled last season with Korver and trade cash for a player. Just find a team looking to dump salary and find their best advance stat guy on a budget and that's who Ferry would jump on. Maybe Washington with Trevor Ariza.

You forgot Brand in your rotation. Ariza could be a good pickup for us. I'd rather trade cash for Singleton though!

What's going on with him? Who's to say he won't be coming back and starting at the 3 for us? He's a guy who plays hard on the defensive side of the ball, can knock down the 3, and has a lot of ridiculous tattoos. We still have his rights don't we? Anyone heard anything about what's going on with him?

Perhaps Mike Scott is making the transition to fulltime sf?

I think you might be on to something here. I know Hawksforlife agrees with you

That tweet wont load for me. Any details about the deal? yrs/$$?

It's confirmed. I am indeed living in the twilight zone.

I watched the Miami Dolphins (Dave Pornstache in particular) literally "run Ricky run" Ricky Williams out of the NFL over a 3 year period of time where he set the all-time and still record for most carries in a 3 year period by a single running back. He was begging for some relief and wanted someone to share carries or for the offense to throw the ball more but they kept on forcing him to tote the rock and it eventually forced him out of football and into all the craziness that followed while he tried to heal his body.

I'm not saying that this is the same situation with Al, but having to defend some of these bigger 5's has to really take a toll on him mentally as well as physically and he's been saying that for years now. I am simply dumfounded that after all of these years we haven't found a C to pair with him yet and I hope that he doesn't end up holding it against us or that his body doesn't starting breaking down because of it.

Side note - my lord ricky Williams was an absolute freak of nature! Running him into a pile of 300lb dudes is a bit different than Al playing center, no?