"its very clear that josh smith and the atlanta hawks part ways today."

[ag82]

Quote from Steve kyler today. Here we go. 7 more hours.

[Nicholasp27]

:popcorn:

[yungsta]

please dont do anything stupid ferry. Remember Flexibility! Flexibility! Flexibility!

[DrReality]

Quote in Ajc contradicts that. Was thinking while reading that article that a little bit of humility would go a long way w Josh

[Bahamut]

[nitte]

I can't understand why we trade Josh Smith unless we get a really good value in return (unlikely). I thought the whole plan was to try pairing Josh with Dwight in here. That is why we traded Joe for scrubs, Marvin for an expiring, etc. Why did we abandon that plan all of a sudden? Did we hear anything from Dwight which strictly says that he is not coming to here? Did Josh say to Ferry that he is not resigning?

If we were to trade him, Ferry should have done it in the offseason. We kept him for months for this meaningless season and now we are gonna get trash of other teams. We hope Gortat or Ilyasova will make us a playoff team next year. The thing is: WE WERE ALREADY A PLAYOFF TEAM. Seriously why did we trade Joe?

I say keep him this season, let`s make one more run in the playoffs. See what happens with the circus in LA and try to bring Dwight to Atlanta. If it happens, cool. If not let Josh&Teague walk (or S&T). Even trade Horford for good draft picks. Tank for a couple of more years. Start from the beginning and hope not to make the same draft mistakes again.

[Hart]

I can't understand why we trade Josh Smith unless we get a really good value in return (unlikely). I thought the whole plan was to try pairing Josh with Dwight in here. That is why we traded Joe for scrubs, Marvin for an expiring, etc. Why did we abandon that plan all of a sudden? Did we hear anything from Dwight which strictly says that he is not coming to here? Did Josh say to Ferry that he is not resigning?

If we were to trade him, Ferry should have done it in the offseason. We kept him for months for this meaningless season and now we are gonna get trash of other teams. We hope Gortat or Ilyasova will make us a playoff team next year. The thing is: WE WERE ALREADY A PLAYOFF TEAM. Seriously why did we trade Joe?

I say keep him this season, let`s make one more run in the playoffs. See what happens with the circus in LA and try to bring Dwight to Atlanta. If it happens, cool. If not let Josh&Teague walk (or S&T). Even trade Horford for good draft picks. Tank for a couple of more years. Start from the beginning and hope not to make the same draft mistakes again.

You poor guy. We traded Joe because he was getting batman money but playing like Robin. Joe Johnson and his ISO play was NEVER going to get us anywhere close to the finals. That's why he is gone.

We are looking into trading Josh because Josh has expressed his desire to be re-signed to a max contract. Again, he is not a max player. He can think that all he wants, but at the end of the day, this is a business and a business decision needs to be made. Let someone else pony up a max deal for him so he can quit on them even more.

We are clearing cap space becuase outside of the Lebron, Bosh, Wade free agent class, this one is going to STOCKED with talent. We could easily gain a big three in the off-season with all the cap space clearing. IF Howard were to come here in the off-season, and we could lure Chris Paul, we would have Howard, Horford, and Paul. That would be an extremely talented big 3.

All of these moves were set up for this up coming off-season. Just wait and see.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

You poor guy. We traded Joe because he was getting batman money but playing like Robin. Joe Johnson and his ISO play was NEVER going to get us anywhere close to the finals. That's why he is gone.

We are looking into trading Josh because Josh has expressed his desire to be re-signed to a max contract. Again, he is not a max player. He can think that all he wants, but at the end of the day, this is a business and a business decision needs to be made. Let someone else pony up a max deal for him so he can quit on them even more.

We are clearing cap space becuase outside of the Lebron, Bosh, Wade free agent class, this one is going to STOCKED with talent. We could easily gain a big three in the off-season with all the cap space clearing. IF Howard were to come here in the off-season, and we could lure Chris Paul, we would have Howard, Horford, and Paul. That would be an extremely talented big 3.

All of these moves were set up for this up coming off-season. Just wait and see.

LOL . . and what are the percent chances of us landing either Howard or Paul, let alone both of them?

Neither of those guys are leaving their teams to come here.

What the Hawks are going to end up doing, is signing a bunch of marginal players for 1 or 2 year contracts, or they'll get desperate and pay Smith the MAX or close to it.

We're being sold a "pipe dream" of "Cap Space" coming here and saving our franchise. At best, we'll add Al Jefferson to the team ( a guy we'll have to overpay to get ).

Horford - Jefferson - Teague will be our "Big 3".

[nitte]

You poor guy. We traded Joe because he was getting batman money but playing like Robin. Joe Johnson and his ISO play was NEVER going to get us anywhere close to the finals. That's why he is gone.

We are looking into trading Josh because Josh has expressed his desire to be re-signed to a max contract. Again, he is not a max player. He can think that all he wants, but at the end of the day, this is a business and a business decision needs to be made. Let someone else pony up a max deal for him so he can quit on them even more.

We are clearing cap space becuase outside of the Lebron, Bosh, Wade free agent class, this one is going to STOCKED with talent. We could easily gain a big three in the off-season with all the cap space clearing. IF Howard were to come here in the off-season, and we could lure Chris Paul, we would have Howard, Horford, and Paul. That would be an extremely talented big 3.

All of these moves were set up for this up coming off-season. Just wait and see.

Poor guy, really?

If you believe CP3 is leaving LA, I won`t call you a poor guy but I can say that you are being too naive. Anyway...

Josh may ask for the max deal all day long. It doesn't mean that he is going to get it. You talk about financial flexibility but Josh is already an expiring. Funny thing is some candidates like Gortat, Ilyasova, Udoh are not expiring at all!

Edited February 21, 2013 by nitte