Seano

I don't know. Someone in another thread gave reasons that supposedly come from a source inside the Hawks that Dwight has too many baby mama's and a bad situation with his own family in Atlanta. I don't know if that is true or not but the reasons I gave are valid reasons why Atlanta should be a good destination for him.

Well good destination or not, if he doesn't want to play here, he doesn't want to play here, and he has given NO sign, not even the faintest glimmer that the Atlanta Hawks are even anywhere on his radar. That's all that matters, so my question is, given the clear and obvious fact he doesn't wish to be here, why bother with him?

He seems to have a great attitude. I'll be looking forward to seeing him play.

Atlanta has perks that are so obvious even you should understand them. We are his hometown team. We are the team he grew up a fan of. We have his best friend since childhood on the roster. None of those 27 teams you keep spewing about can offer that.

So with all of these perks, why is it he still doesn't want to play here? That's the one question no one's seemed able to answer.

I'm pretty sure his popularity would be dependent upon his behavior here. If he's acting the gigantic drama queen and undermining his coach and GM here as he did in Orlando, his popularity would take a hit here just as it did there.Of course if he were able to help lead us to a ring, that would overrule everything else.

One of the crummier iterations of any possible deal with the Nets, but still. With all those expirings, next year we're going to have TONS of flexibility with the cap. It's all about the cap, baby! And thank you Billy King!

Yep. Just saw on Legion Sports Twitter feed "Hawks-Nets trade all but done".

I think I would do that trade in a freaking heartbeat, though I don't know about the sign and trade stuff either.

True. When he was being booed for being a Kardashian who looked like a cross between a soap star and surfer, it was also fueled by some thought that he was an over-privileged bum. Not so. The guy would elbow his mother across the head for an offensive rebound.

Fifth leading rebounder in the NBA in each of the past two seasons. Was tenth in double doubles last season, and is also starting to emerge as a pretty decent shot blocker. I say heck to the yes!I'd actually prefer Humphries over Brook Lopez, for whatever that's worth.

Oh that's cool. Good news!

I'd gladly take a resigned Kris Humphries off their hands. He's a very useful player, and he's still just 27 years old.

For pure entertainment's sake, I'd love to see the Magic not trade Dwight and then bench him for the entire season. What a spoiled, entitled brat!

That would be awesome. He's a heck of a player, but my opinion is that he pretty much sucks as a person. He puts on this facade of being such a 'Christian', but then you see all the crap he put Otis Smith and Van Gundy through, and he's just completely two-faced about it. He's the type of person who will smile in your face as his arm sneaks around you to slide the knife into your back.

I'm not trying to be a jerk about it or anything, but wow. This Joker character about makes me long for the 'good' old days of superiorblogman. Takes obnoxiousness to a whole different level.

I think the Lakers are going to get Joe.

Really? For who?

Well the best thing about those players is they're all expiring, so we'd be in the clear heading into the 2013-14 season. Not to mention as expirings, we could use them as trade bait this year.

He doesn't have a source because they lost their 2012 first rounder for Wallace so they can't trade their 2013 firstJust pulling something (that is illegal) out of thin air

Well, he was wrong about the draft pick, but apparently his list of players is correct.http://espn.go.com/n...ade-sources-sayLooks like kind of a pu-pu platter, but hey...

Oops, sorry Diesel. I posted this in the wrong thread. Heh, need more coffee.

I'm putting my money on the Lakers to get Howard. They did have a deal in place that would have sent Bynum over, before Dwight decided to opt-in next season, and now they're talking again.That would be fine by me, BTW. It'll be nice to no longer have to hear about all the Dwight-related drama, and once that piece falls into place, the rest will probably fall like dominoes.

The stats might say that Joe is the fourth best player in this system but do you honestly think that Joe, a six time allstar, an ALL NBA player, is really that bad???I'll tell you why stats show this, it's because Joe is the number one player that defenses try to focus in on this team, hence he has to bear the burden on the offensive end most of the time. Do you really think defenses try to stop Josh from going off on them LOL! No, they'd rather him build brick houses with that jumper of his.I'll guarantee you that on the offensive end, with Joe out, defenses will figure out a way to expose the hawks and force Josh to take jumper after jumper, and we will all soon see how bad of an offensive team the Hawks will be without having Joe as the scapegoat. If you give Joe a number 1 option, his stats would be better and he would be more efficient. We already know that Joe is not a 1st option, but the fourth best player on this team he is not.

Whether he's first or fourth best, it doesn't really matter in my opinion. I think the only relevant point is that the $20M per he's set to be making over the four years left on his deal is going to become a real problem for us, unless we can get rid of that obligation somehow.

with the Gerald Wallace signing and Howard demanding to be traded to Brooklyn, I think the chances of this happening are dead. They will now throw all their trade chips for Howard andA) Some of these chips might be the expirings we wanted to enable them to take back Hedo andB) After having the salaries of Deron, Dwight and now Wallace, there's no way they commit to taking on Johnson's as well -- that would screw themSucks, I was really excited for our future for a second.

Maybe, but it ain't over yet. Remember, Deron resigning there is not a slam dunk yet, in fact there are an awful lot of people who believe he's ultimately going to choose to go home to Dallas. Don't give up hope yet!

In the 6 games he missed, they were 4-2.

Yep. 4-2 with a win over OKC, a road win at Indy, a win vs. Orlando and a three point loss at Miami, all games in which coincidentally Josh Smith shone and played like an All Star.This team can obviously survive without Joe Johnson.

If this is a joke, it is a sorry and cruel one. Please Brooklyn take Joe off our hands PLEASE!!!

Michael Cunningham is reporting it too, so hopefully this rumor has got some real legs.

Interesting. Deron is meeting with both the Mavs and Nets on Monday, so maybe Brooklyn is feeling some sense of urgency.

I have no idea where the Celtics are at financially, but a lot can and will change between now and the start of the season, for both our teams, as both teams have multiple roster spots that need to be filled.And the danger of rolling with an old fart like Garnett, a player with THAT many miles on him, is his game could drop off at virtually any time.

If he's a good teammate, is good in the locker room and is a coachable player, then by all means bring him back. If his fiery nature is causing any kind of problems in any of those areas, then see ya later Ivan.

Pretty much just being a strict follower of Big 10 basketball, I'm really not all that familiar with either one of these players, but have somewhat conflicting emotions on our draft based on what the talking heads are saying. Jenkins- it's great that he's regarded as being the best shooter in the draft. That's awesome, shooting being something we could always use. However, when I see his potential NBA impact being compared to that of JJ Reddick, and hear virtually every expert calling him 'one-dimensional' and many saying for that reason he was a reach at 23, that doesn't paint nearly as rosy a picture.And Scott, he seems like a fairly good second round pick but for the fact he's already 24 years old.I have no idea what to think. Just gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best. What else can ya do?