Did You Know?

[HawkTodd]

This is off of ESPN's SportsCenter Did You Know segment.

Did you know the longest active streak of any team drafting w/o drafting an all-star player is the Atlanta Hawks. It was somehing like 18 years ago with Kevin Willis.

I had never really though about that, but that makes our drafts look really bad. Hopefully we can change that this year.

[Dejay]

Kevin Willis is the last All-Star drafted by the Hawks back in 1984. Since then, we've had to deal with the overpaid (Alan Henderson, Chris Crawford), the overweight (Doug Edwards, Priest Lauderdale), the overrated (Rumeal Robinson, Stacey Augmon, Cal Bowdler), the injured (Dion Glover, Dermarr Johnson), and the just plain awful (Adam Keefe, Roy Marble, Ed Gray, Dallas Comegys). Here's another carrot for you to digest; since drafting Kevin Willis 19 years ago, Jason Terry is the ONLY Hawks' draft pick since to have a double-digit point average for his career!! You could buy the 'well, we pick so low in the draft every year' excuse if you have multiple banners hanging up in your arena during that time period (and no, the 1993-94 Central Division banner doesn't count), but if you don't, it is INEXCUSABLE to go that long between All-Stars. That's like saying 'well, we are totally incapable of finding a guy that can play and can develop so we have to make trades (involving future picks that we'll waste anyway) with other teams that are better at doing just that to bring one here. Pathetic.

[Lrenfro]

I am not sure but I think he was in charge of all of them.

[Dejay]

and started off in quick fashion by drafting Rumeal Robinson with the 10th pick. He was so anamored with his 'skills' (one sports magazine quoted him as calling Rumeal the next Isiah Thomas; from that alone, you knew the Hawks were in trouble), that he jettisoned off Kenny Smith for Tim McCormick and John Lucas (who took about .009 seconds to announce his retirement afterwards).