We are bound to lose eventually.

[benhillboy]

I see no evidence that this team knows how to lose

Say it again. Many teams have losing habits, the Hawks have nary a one. If your players aren't on a string for at least 40 minutes, chances of beating "The Group" are slim to none.

Kyle has been held down almost completely in two games, Washingon and OKC (he's still the best decoy in the league but I digress). That Robeson kid held him to only a dunk and a three from Hudson's Grille. That's the main objective for coaches isn't it? Double digit wins in both.

Edited January 25, 2015 by benhillboy

[HawkItus]

Classic thread lol

[Guest]

This thread just wont die, lol.

[Nicholasp27]

In before this thread really takes off as we extend into the 20s

[Wretch]

Yeah...in so I can say I wuz here. lol

 

Epicness....

[AUhawksfan]

I was here too!  I want a part of history lol

[lethalweapon3]

January 11, 2037

 

(AP) SEATTLE – It had to happen sometime.

 

For over two decades, the entire NBA has played the Washington Generals role to the international league’s flagship franchise. Finally, Vegatito Horford proved even the Atlanta Hawks -- yes, the Atlanta Hawks -- can finish an evening on the losing side of the ledger.

 

The rookie superstar, whose father, Al Horford, was on the floor back when Atlanta last lost a game back in December 2014, scored a career-high 78 points and sunk a turnaround corner jumper over Marvin Bagley III to lift the Seattle Knicks to a 208-207 triple-overtime victory, ending Atlanta’s unprecedented 1,705-game winning streak.

 

Horford stepped out of bounds along the baseline before backing in for his game-winning jumpshot over the six-time MVP’s outstretched arms at the buzzer. But referee Joey Crawford, Jr. was looking the other way, distracted by Seattle head coach Jamal Crawford’s insistence that guard Knox Korver’s go-ahead four-pointer with just 15,273.8 milliseconds to go was actually a three. Hawks coaches insisted on a review from NBA’s Alpharetta headquarters, but officials determined the play was not reviewable.

 

“KG (assistant coach Kevin Garnett) kept shouting to the team all day that anything is possible, anything is possible,” noted Seattle’s coach Crawford, whose Knicks (18-16) took a one-game lead over Tokyo in the hyper-competitive Pacific Conference. “(Assistant coach) Marvin (Williams) and I may be the only guys around that even know what the heck he’s talking about.”

 

The shot sent the long-suffering Knicks fans into a frenzy, spilling onto the Starbucks Garden floor like supporters of a college team as streamers fell from the rafters, a surreal sight for the midseason game. “I may even make a movie about tonight,” diehard Knicks fan Spike Lee shouted as fans gleefully hoisted him atop one of the rims. “For one night, at least, We Got Game!”

 

Two of Al Horford’s teammates from the last time the Hawks lost can relate to their players what it feels like.

 

“I’m as surprised as you all are,” head coach Kyle Korver told the throng of local reporters who rushed into Starbucks Garden after the unexpected loss finally transpired for Atlanta (31-1). “We played with pace and space. We just couldn’t do enough to stop the Veg, credit to him. His father sure taught him well. I was there back when Veg was born. He and Knox have come a long way from the Fisher-Price hoop in my backyard. Veg is going to be a great one, and I look forward to watching him in the Rising Stars Classic when our World team takes on Mars.”

 

“Hopefully, I’ll get a vote of confidence from my boss when we get back to ATL,” joked Korver, a five-time NBA champion as a player, the all-time NBA three-point shooter, and the man at the helm of Atlanta’s amazing 21-year championship run.

 

Bagley III was inconsolable after the first loss of his 16-year career, bursting into tears as he hugged Hawks assistant coaches Elton Brand and Becky Hammon in the locker room. “It’s tough,” said Brand, “guys like MB3 and Jahlil (Okafor), they certainly had reason to believe that they’d go into Springfield undefeated.” Bagley’s 65 points and 31 assists, his 11^th career 60-30 game, and Okafor’s 45 rebounds and 25 blocks, were not enough on this night, for once.

 

“But Coach Bud put all of this together,” referring to the legendary Hall of Fame coach and current U.S. Secretary of State who set the stage for Atlanta’s run to glory. “Bud would always tell us it’s always about the next game, and we’ll refocus and set our sights on the Vancouver Lakers next.” Brand recently turned down a mega-billion dollar offer from the fledging Johannesburg Jumpfakers to remain with Atlanta. “I know, it’s been a few decades already, but we’re still building something here.”

 

“We’re finally figuring out you have to pass up good shots for better shots,” Vegatito Horford said after the game. “I was telling Natena (Robinson, the Knicks’ up-and-coming point guard, who had a season-high 22 assists) how my pops and Godfather Kyle and Godfather Jeff (Teague) and the Pope (Pope Paul Millsap I) would go on and on about that when I was growing up, and I had no idea what they meant. She didn’t know, either. But I think now we’re all finally getting the gist of it.”

 

Back in the City of Champions, the responses to the Hawks’ loss were a tad harsh. “We were bound to lose eventually,” longtime Hawks season-ticketholder Rich S. Lee told the Atlanta e-Journal-Constitution. “I just knew it was going to happen today.”

 

“We have absolutely no eight-footers on the roster, and that’s why matchups with the Seattles and Pyongyangs of the world are always going to be difficult,” Hotlanta decried from his top-rated satellite sports program, “Hots’ Takes.” “We’ll never win 100 games in a row again, never mind 1,700.”

 

“When was the last time the Hawks had more than 80 rebounds in a game?” added Supes from his satellite program, “Diesel and Supes.” “I have insisted they need more size for decades, but (Atlanta general manager) DeMarre Carroll wants to pretend we’re still back in 2015 with automobiles and stuff. Even my producer (former NBA player O.J. Mayo) agrees. You can’t be competitive in the 30’s relying on diminutive frontlines like Okafor and MB3 and (Walter) Tavares. It’s ridiculous!”

 

Meanwhile, video messages came pouring in for both teams. “Adam Silver had this speech typed up on a laptop about a decade ago, and now I get to finally read it. I almost couldn’t find it,” noted NBA Commissioner DeMarcus Cousins. “You all remember laptops, right?”

 

“Tal padre, tal hijo. Felicitaciones!”, Al Horford beamed with pride on his son’s accomplishment from his brand-new Amelia casino resort in Boca Chica near Santo Domingo, before turning his attention to the Atlanta team who honored him with a statue in Multi-Olympic Park alongside Dominique Wilkins last year. “Back when we lost to the Bucks in 2014, I told my teammates the same thing I’m telling you: every loss just means it’s time to start the next winning streak!”

 

President Marshawn Lynch, a former Seattle star from back when American Football was a legal sport, and Vice President Ivan Johnson, himself a former Hawk, took time out immediately after the State of the Union Address to contact the Hawks and Knicks. “Look for a teleported delivery of Skittles for you, Coach Jamal,” the recently re-inaugurated Lynch declared as Crawford projected the message onto the wall from his iGoggles. “Who knows? I told Ivan that maybe by my eighth year, I’ll even get to invite you SeaKnicks to the White Hoverhouse. I’m all about that action... and I’m the boss!”

 

“Football used to have just 16 games and the playoffs, and I don’t remember any team ever making it all the way through undefeated,” said President Lynch, perhaps neglecting the then-Miami Dolphins of 1972 long before they were relocated to Galveston in the NFL’s terminal 2026 season. “82-plus games and sweeping the playoffs every year is just... it leaves me at a loss for words, and that never happens! Ivan, you couldn’t even stay in a league for that long, could you?” Lynch asked of his second-in-command, drawing a dual-middle-fingered response.

 

The Hawks head north from Seattle to face the Lakers before returning to Waffle House Arena to play the Abu Dhabi Dalmations during Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King-Danny Ferry Day game.

 

~lw3

[macdaddy]

So how many here aren't changing their avatar until we lose?

 

[IheartVolt]

January 11, 2037

(AP) SEATTLE – It had to happen sometime.

For over two decades, the entire NBA has played the Washington Generals role to the international league’s flagship franchise. Finally, Vegatito Horford proved even the Atlanta Hawks -- yes, the Atlanta Hawks -- can finish an evening on the losing side of the ledger.

The rookie superstar, whose father, Al Horford, was on the floor back when Atlanta last lost a game back in December 2014, scored a career-high 78 points and sunk a turnaround corner jumper over Marvin Bagley III to lift the Seattle Knicks to a 208-207 triple-overtime victory, ending Atlanta’s unprecedented 1,705-game winning streak.

Horford stepped out of bounds along the baseline before backing in for his game-winning jumpshot over the six-time MVP’s outstretched arms at the buzzer. But referee Joey Crawford, Jr. was looking the other way, distracted by Seattle head coach Jamal Crawford’s insistence that guard Knox Korver’s go-ahead four-pointer with just 15,273.8 milliseconds to go was actually a three. Hawks coaches insisted on a review from NBA’s Alpharetta headquarters, but officials determined the play was not reviewable.

“KG (assistant coach Kevin Garnett) kept shouting to the team all day that anything is possible, anything is possible,” noted Seattle’s coach Crawford, whose Knicks (18-16) took a one-game lead over Tokyo in the hyper-competitive Pacific Conference. “(Assistant coach) Marvin (Williams) and I may be the only guys around that even know what the heck he’s talking about.”

The shot sent the long-suffering Knicks fans into a frenzy, spilling onto the Starbucks Garden floor like supporters of a college team as streamers fell from the rafters, a surreal sight for the midseason game. “I may even make a movie about tonight,” diehard Knicks fan Spike Lee shouted as fans gleefully hoisted him atop one of the rims. “For one night, at least, We Got Game!”

Two of Al Horford’s teammates from the last time the Hawks lost can relate to their players what it feels like.

“I’m as surprised as you all are,” head coach Kyle Korver told the throng of local reporters who rushed into Starbucks Garden after the unexpected loss finally transpired for Atlanta (31-1). “We played with pace and space. We just couldn’t do enough to stop the Veg, credit to him. His father sure taught him well. I was there back when Veg was born. He and Knox have come a long way from the Fisher-Price hoop in my backyard. Veg is going to be a great one, and I look forward to watching him in the Rising Stars Classic when our World team takes on Mars.”

“Hopefully, I’ll get a vote of confidence from my boss when we get back to ATL,” joked Korver, a five-time NBA champion as a player, the all-time NBA three-point shooter, and the man at the helm of Atlanta’s amazing 21-year championship run.

Bagley III was inconsolable after the first loss of his 16-year career, bursting into tears as he hugged Hawks assistant coaches Elton Brand and Becky Hammon in the locker room. “It’s tough,” said Brand, “guys like MB3 and Jahlil (Okafor), they certainly had reason to believe that they’d go into Springfield undefeated.” Bagley’s 65 points and 31 assists, his 11^th career 60-30 game, and Okafor’s 45 rebounds and 25 blocks, were not enough on this night, for once.

“But Coach Bud put all of this together,” referring to the legendary Hall of Fame coach and current U.S. Secretary of State who set the stage for Atlanta’s run to glory. “Bud would always tell us it’s always about the next game, and we’ll refocus and set our sights on the Vancouver Lakers next.” Brand recently turned down a mega-billion dollar offer from the fledging Johannesburg Jumpfakers to remain with Atlanta. “I know, it’s been a few decades already, but we’re still building something here.”

“We’re finally figuring out you have to pass up good shots for better shots,” Vegatito Horford said after the game. “I was telling Natena (Robinson, the Knicks’ up-and-coming point guard, who had a season-high 22 assists) how my pops and Godfather Kyle and Godfather Jeff (Teague) and the Pope (Pope Paul Millsap I) would go on and on about that when I was growing up, and I had no idea what they meant. She didn’t know, either. But I think now we’re all finally getting the gist of it.”

Back in the City of Champions, the responses to the Hawks’ loss were a tad harsh. “We were bound to lose eventually,” longtime Hawks season-ticketholder Rich S. Lee told the Atlanta e-Journal-Constitution. “I just knew it was going to happen today.”

“We have absolutely no eight-footers on the roster, and that’s why matchups with the Seattles and Pyongyangs of the world are always going to be difficult,” Hotlanta decried from his top-rated satellite sports program, “Hots’ Takes.” “We’ll never win 100 games in a row again, never mind 1,700.”

“When was the last time the Hawks had more than 80 rebounds in a game?” added Supes from his satellite program, “Diesel and Supes.” “I have insisted they need more size for decades, but (Atlanta general manager) DeMarre Carroll wants to pretend we’re still back in 2015 with automobiles and stuff. Even my producer (former NBA player O.J. Mayo) agrees. You can’t be competitive in the 30’s relying on diminutive frontlines like Okafor and MB3 and (Walter) Tavares. It’s ridiculous!”

Meanwhile, video messages came pouring in for both teams. “Adam Silver had this speech typed up on a laptop about a decade ago, and now I get to finally read it. I almost couldn’t find it,” noted NBA Commissioner DeMarcus Cousins. “You all remember laptops, right?”

“Tal padre, tal hijo. Felicitaciones!”, Al Horford beamed with pride on his son’s accomplishment from his brand-new Amelia casino resort in Boca Chica near Santo Domingo, before turning his attention to the Atlanta team who honored him with a statue in Multi-Olympic Park alongside Dominique Wilkins last year. “Back when we lost to the Bucks in 2014, I told my teammates the same thing I’m telling you: every loss just means it’s time to start the next winning streak!”

President Marshawn Lynch, a former Seattle star from back when American Football was a legal sport, and Vice President Ivan Johnson, himself a former Hawk, took time out immediately after the State of the Union Address to contact the Hawks and Knicks. “Look for a teleported delivery of Skittles for you, Coach Jamal,” the recently re-inaugurated Lynch declared as Crawford projected the message onto the wall from his iGoggles. “Who knows? I told Ivan that maybe by my eighth year, I’ll even get to invite you SeaKnicks to the White Hoverhouse. I’m all about that action... and I’m the boss!”

“Football used to have just 16 games and the playoffs, and I don’t remember any team ever making it all the way through undefeated,” said President Lynch, perhaps neglecting the then-Miami Dolphins of 1972 long before they were relocated to Galveston in the NFL’s terminal 2026 season. “82-plus games and sweeping the playoffs every year is just... it leaves me at a loss for words, and that never happens! Ivan, you couldn’t even stay in a league for that long, could you?” Lynch asked of his second-in-command, drawing a dual-middle-fingered response.

The Hawks head north from Seattle to face the Lakers before returning to Waffle House Arena to play the Abu Dhabi Dalmations during Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King-Danny Ferry Day game.

~lw3

This is without a doubt the greatest post the squawk has ever seen.. lmao

[Guest]

January 11, 2037

(AP) SEATTLE – It had to happen sometime.

For over two decades, the entire NBA has played the Washington Generals role to the international league’s flagship franchise. Finally, Vegatito Horford proved even the Atlanta Hawks -- yes, the Atlanta Hawks -- can finish an evening on the losing side of the ledger.

The rookie superstar, whose father, Al Horford, was on the floor back when Atlanta last lost a game back in December 2014, scored a career-high 78 points and sunk a turnaround corner jumper over Marvin Bagley III to lift the Seattle Knicks to a 208-207 triple-overtime victory, ending Atlanta’s unprecedented 1,705-game winning streak.

Horford stepped out of bounds along the baseline before backing in for his game-winning jumpshot over the six-time MVP’s outstretched arms at the buzzer. But referee Joey Crawford, Jr. was looking the other way, distracted by Seattle head coach Jamal Crawford’s insistence that guard Knox Korver’s go-ahead four-pointer with just 15,273.8 milliseconds to go was actually a three. Hawks coaches insisted on a review from NBA’s Alpharetta headquarters, but officials determined the play was not reviewable.

“KG (assistant coach Kevin Garnett) kept shouting to the team all day that anything is possible, anything is possible,” noted Seattle’s coach Crawford, whose Knicks (18-16) took a one-game lead over Tokyo in the hyper-competitive Pacific Conference. “(Assistant coach) Marvin (Williams) and I may be the only guys around that even know what the heck he’s talking about.”

The shot sent the long-suffering Knicks fans into a frenzy, spilling onto the Starbucks Garden floor like supporters of a college team as streamers fell from the rafters, a surreal sight for the midseason game. “I may even make a movie about tonight,” diehard Knicks fan Spike Lee shouted as fans gleefully hoisted him atop one of the rims. “For one night, at least, We Got Game!”

Two of Al Horford’s teammates from the last time the Hawks lost can relate to their players what it feels like.

“I’m as surprised as you all are,” head coach Kyle Korver told the throng of local reporters who rushed into Starbucks Garden after the unexpected loss finally transpired for Atlanta (31-1). “We played with pace and space. We just couldn’t do enough to stop the Veg, credit to him. His father sure taught him well. I was there back when Veg was born. He and Knox have come a long way from the Fisher-Price hoop in my backyard. Veg is going to be a great one, and I look forward to watching him in the Rising Stars Classic when our World team takes on Mars.”

“Hopefully, I’ll get a vote of confidence from my boss when we get back to ATL,” joked Korver, a five-time NBA champion as a player, the all-time NBA three-point shooter, and the man at the helm of Atlanta’s amazing 21-year championship run.

Bagley III was inconsolable after the first loss of his 16-year career, bursting into tears as he hugged Hawks assistant coaches Elton Brand and Becky Hammon in the locker room. “It’s tough,” said Brand, “guys like MB3 and Jahlil (Okafor), they certainly had reason to believe that they’d go into Springfield undefeated.” Bagley’s 65 points and 31 assists, his 11^th career 60-30 game, and Okafor’s 45 rebounds and 25 blocks, were not enough on this night, for once.

“But Coach Bud put all of this together,” referring to the legendary Hall of Fame coach and current U.S. Secretary of State who set the stage for Atlanta’s run to glory. “Bud would always tell us it’s always about the next game, and we’ll refocus and set our sights on the Vancouver Lakers next.” Brand recently turned down a mega-billion dollar offer from the fledging Johannesburg Jumpfakers to remain with Atlanta. “I know, it’s been a few decades already, but we’re still building something here.”

“We’re finally figuring out you have to pass up good shots for better shots,” Vegatito Horford said after the game. “I was telling Natena (Robinson, the Knicks’ up-and-coming point guard, who had a season-high 22 assists) how my pops and Godfather Kyle and Godfather Jeff (Teague) and the Pope (Pope Paul Millsap I) would go on and on about that when I was growing up, and I had no idea what they meant. She didn’t know, either. But I think now we’re all finally getting the gist of it.”

Back in the City of Champions, the responses to the Hawks’ loss were a tad harsh. “We were bound to lose eventually,” longtime Hawks season-ticketholder Rich S. Lee told the Atlanta e-Journal-Constitution. “I just knew it was going to happen today.”

“We have absolutely no eight-footers on the roster, and that’s why matchups with the Seattles and Pyongyangs of the world are always going to be difficult,” Hotlanta decried from his top-rated satellite sports program, “Hots’ Takes.” “We’ll never win 100 games in a row again, never mind 1,700.”

“When was the last time the Hawks had more than 80 rebounds in a game?” added Supes from his satellite program, “Diesel and Supes.” “I have insisted they need more size for decades, but (Atlanta general manager) DeMarre Carroll wants to pretend we’re still back in 2015 with automobiles and stuff. Even my producer (former NBA player O.J. Mayo) agrees. You can’t be competitive in the 30’s relying on diminutive frontlines like Okafor and MB3 and (Walter) Tavares. It’s ridiculous!”

Meanwhile, video messages came pouring in for both teams. “Adam Silver had this speech typed up on a laptop about a decade ago, and now I get to finally read it. I almost couldn’t find it,” noted NBA Commissioner DeMarcus Cousins. “You all remember laptops, right?”

“Tal padre, tal hijo. Felicitaciones!”, Al Horford beamed with pride on his son’s accomplishment from his brand-new Amelia casino resort in Boca Chica near Santo Domingo, before turning his attention to the Atlanta team who honored him with a statue in Multi-Olympic Park alongside Dominique Wilkins last year. “Back when we lost to the Bucks in 2014, I told my teammates the same thing I’m telling you: every loss just means it’s time to start the next winning streak!”

President Marshawn Lynch, a former Seattle star from back when American Football was a legal sport, and Vice President Ivan Johnson, himself a former Hawk, took time out immediately after the State of the Union Address to contact the Hawks and Knicks. “Look for a teleported delivery of Skittles for you, Coach Jamal,” the recently re-inaugurated Lynch declared as Crawford projected the message onto the wall from his iGoggles. “Who knows? I told Ivan that maybe by my eighth year, I’ll even get to invite you SeaKnicks to the White Hoverhouse. I’m all about that action... and I’m the boss!”

“Football used to have just 16 games and the playoffs, and I don’t remember any team ever making it all the way through undefeated,” said President Lynch, perhaps neglecting the then-Miami Dolphins of 1972 long before they were relocated to Galveston in the NFL’s terminal 2026 season. “82-plus games and sweeping the playoffs every year is just... it leaves me at a loss for words, and that never happens! Ivan, you couldn’t even stay in a league for that long, could you?” Lynch asked of his second-in-command, drawing a dual-middle-fingered response.

The Hawks head north from Seattle to face the Lakers before returning to Waffle House Arena to play the Abu Dhabi Dalmations during Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King-Danny Ferry Day game.

~lw3

OMG @lethalweapon3 - what have you done?

This will break the Squawk. Lololololol.

I'm unable to do any work now. I'm taking the rest of the afternoon off.

@Dolfan23 this needs its own thread.

[Guest]

@lethalweapon3

Omg that was awesome!!!!! Is Marvin Bagley the grandson of John? The Diesel n Supe show with OJ Mayo as the producer!!! Lol. Hots not happy we don't have an 8 footer!!! Veg Hor and Knox Kor....cousins as commish of the nba...Beast mode as president with Ivan as vp...CLASSIC!!!Scary a$$ world but that was fabulous :-D

[PSSSHHHRRR87]

Our last two losses were Orlando and Milwaukee.  We could lose to any team on any night.  I don't see a point to predicting how long this streak will last.  Let's just enjoy the ride.  

 

And both of those were during home-and-home series which is why I'm a tad nervous for the playoffs.  Teams don't have time to get ready for us because they play 3-4 games a week, but when playoffs come around and we are playing the same team least 4x's in a row, those home-and-home losses don't bode well.

[Dejay]

Good thing Dolfan upgraded the server recently. The very thought of Ivan Johnson being one heartbeat away from being president is beyond hilarious...and scary...

[NineOhTheRino]

i may create a "THE HAWKS WILL NOT WIN A TITLE" thread.

[macdaddy]

Hilarious @lethalweapon3.   So ridiculous...I mean Seattle with a basketball team?  C'mon.  That's comedy gold.

[lethalweapon3]

@lethalweapon3

Omg that was awesome!!!!! Is Marvin Bagley the grandson of John? The Diesel n Supe show with OJ Mayo as the producer!!! Lol. Hots not happy we don't have an 8 footer!!! Veg Hor and Knox Kor....cousins as commish of the nba...Beast mode as president with Ivan as vp...CLASSIC!!!Scary a$$ world but that was fabulous :-D

 

Thanks gang!

 

In real life, Marvin Bagley III's blowing up right now as a high school freshman in Arizona. He played AAU ball for Mike Bibby.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/01/16/all-time-greatest-arizona-high-school-freshman-basketball-players/21859161/

 

His grandfather, Jumpin' Joe Caldwell, was the Atlanta Hawks' first two-time All-Star, and is featured over on a "Where Are They Now?" Seniorsquawk thread from last summer. (Warning: don't read that thing if you don't have, like, an hour to spare.)

 

~lw3

[cam1218]

i may create a "THE HAWKS WILL NOT WIN A TITLE" thread.

 

Leave that to the poster who created this thread!

[HawkItus]

January 11, 2037

 

(AP) SEATTLE – It had to happen sometime.

 

For over two decades, the entire NBA has played the Washington Generals role to the international league’s flagship franchise. Finally, Vegatito Horford proved even the Atlanta Hawks -- yes, the Atlanta Hawks -- can finish an evening on the losing side of the ledger.

 

The rookie superstar, whose father, Al Horford, was on the floor back when Atlanta last lost a game back in December 2014, scored a career-high 78 points and sunk a turnaround corner jumper over Marvin Bagley III to lift the Seattle Knicks to a 208-207 triple-overtime victory, ending Atlanta’s unprecedented 1,705-game winning streak.

 

Horford stepped out of bounds along the baseline before backing in for his game-winning jumpshot over the six-time MVP’s outstretched arms at the buzzer. But referee Joey Crawford, Jr. was looking the other way, distracted by Seattle head coach Jamal Crawford’s insistence that guard Knox Korver’s go-ahead four-pointer with just 15,273.8 milliseconds to go was actually a three. Hawks coaches insisted on a review from NBA’s Alpharetta headquarters, but officials determined the play was not reviewable.

 

“KG (assistant coach Kevin Garnett) kept shouting to the team all day that anything is possible, anything is possible,” noted Seattle’s coach Crawford, whose Knicks (18-16) took a one-game lead over Tokyo in the hyper-competitive Pacific Conference. “(Assistant coach) Marvin (Williams) and I may be the only guys around that even know what the heck he’s talking about.”

 

The shot sent the long-suffering Knicks fans into a frenzy, spilling onto the Starbucks Garden floor like supporters of a college team as streamers fell from the rafters, a surreal sight for the midseason game. “I may even make a movie about tonight,” diehard Knicks fan Spike Lee shouted as fans gleefully hoisted him atop one of the rims. “For one night, at least, We Got Game!”

 

Two of Al Horford’s teammates from the last time the Hawks lost can relate to their players what it feels like.

 

“I’m as surprised as you all are,” head coach Kyle Korver told the throng of local reporters who rushed into Starbucks Garden after the unexpected loss finally transpired for Atlanta (31-1). “We played with pace and space. We just couldn’t do enough to stop the Veg, credit to him. His father sure taught him well. I was there back when Veg was born. He and Knox have come a long way from the Fisher-Price hoop in my backyard. Veg is going to be a great one, and I look forward to watching him in the Rising Stars Classic when our World team takes on Mars.”

 

“Hopefully, I’ll get a vote of confidence from my boss when we get back to ATL,” joked Korver, a five-time NBA champion as a player, the all-time NBA three-point shooter, and the man at the helm of Atlanta’s amazing 21-year championship run.

 

Bagley III was inconsolable after the first loss of his 16-year career, bursting into tears as he hugged Hawks assistant coaches Elton Brand and Becky Hammon in the locker room. “It’s tough,” said Brand, “guys like MB3 and Jahlil (Okafor), they certainly had reason to believe that they’d go into Springfield undefeated.” Bagley’s 65 points and 31 assists, his 11^th career 60-30 game, and Okafor’s 45 rebounds and 25 blocks, were not enough on this night, for once.

 

“But Coach Bud put all of this together,” referring to the legendary Hall of Fame coach and current U.S. Secretary of State who set the stage for Atlanta’s run to glory. “Bud would always tell us it’s always about the next game, and we’ll refocus and set our sights on the Vancouver Lakers next.” Brand recently turned down a mega-billion dollar offer from the fledging Johannesburg Jumpfakers to remain with Atlanta. “I know, it’s been a few decades already, but we’re still building something here.”

 

“We’re finally figuring out you have to pass up good shots for better shots,” Vegatito Horford said after the game. “I was telling Natena (Robinson, the Knicks’ up-and-coming point guard, who had a season-high 22 assists) how my pops and Godfather Kyle and Godfather Jeff (Teague) and the Pope (Pope Paul Millsap I) would go on and on about that when I was growing up, and I had no idea what they meant. She didn’t know, either. But I think now we’re all finally getting the gist of it.”

 

Back in the City of Champions, the responses to the Hawks’ loss were a tad harsh. “We were bound to lose eventually,” longtime Hawks season-ticketholder Rich S. Lee told the Atlanta e-Journal-Constitution. “I just knew it was going to happen today.”

 

“We have absolutely no eight-footers on the roster, and that’s why matchups with the Seattles and Pyongyangs of the world are always going to be difficult,” Hotlanta decried from his top-rated satellite sports program, “Hots’ Takes.” “We’ll never win 100 games in a row again, never mind 1,700.”

 

“When was the last time the Hawks had more than 80 rebounds in a game?” added Supes from his satellite program, “Diesel and Supes.” “I have insisted they need more size for decades, but (Atlanta general manager) DeMarre Carroll wants to pretend we’re still back in 2015 with automobiles and stuff. Even my producer (former NBA player O.J. Mayo) agrees. You can’t be competitive in the 30’s relying on diminutive frontlines like Okafor and MB3 and (Walter) Tavares. It’s ridiculous!”

 

Meanwhile, video messages came pouring in for both teams. “Adam Silver had this speech typed up on a laptop about a decade ago, and now I get to finally read it. I almost couldn’t find it,” noted NBA Commissioner DeMarcus Cousins. “You all remember laptops, right?”

 

“Tal padre, tal hijo. Felicitaciones!”, Al Horford beamed with pride on his son’s accomplishment from his brand-new Amelia casino resort in Boca Chica near Santo Domingo, before turning his attention to the Atlanta team who honored him with a statue in Multi-Olympic Park alongside Dominique Wilkins last year. “Back when we lost to the Bucks in 2014, I told my teammates the same thing I’m telling you: every loss just means it’s time to start the next winning streak!”

 

President Marshawn Lynch, a former Seattle star from back when American Football was a legal sport, and Vice President Ivan Johnson, himself a former Hawk, took time out immediately after the State of the Union Address to contact the Hawks and Knicks. “Look for a teleported delivery of Skittles for you, Coach Jamal,” the recently re-inaugurated Lynch declared as Crawford projected the message onto the wall from his iGoggles. “Who knows? I told Ivan that maybe by my eighth year, I’ll even get to invite you SeaKnicks to the White Hoverhouse. I’m all about that action... and I’m the boss!”

 

“Football used to have just 16 games and the playoffs, and I don’t remember any team ever making it all the way through undefeated,” said President Lynch, perhaps neglecting the then-Miami Dolphins of 1972 long before they were relocated to Galveston in the NFL’s terminal 2026 season. “82-plus games and sweeping the playoffs every year is just... it leaves me at a loss for words, and that never happens! Ivan, you couldn’t even stay in a league for that long, could you?” Lynch asked of his second-in-command, drawing a dual-middle-fingered response.

 

The Hawks head north from Seattle to face the Lakers before returning to Waffle House Arena to play the Abu Dhabi Dalmations during Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King-Danny Ferry Day game.

 

~lw3

[AHF]

That is so fantastic, @lethalweapon3 !!

[NBASupes]

January 11, 2037

 

(AP) SEATTLE – It had to happen sometime.

 

For over two decades, the entire NBA has played the Washington Generals role to the international league’s flagship franchise. Finally, Vegatito Horford proved even the Atlanta Hawks -- yes, the Atlanta Hawks -- can finish an evening on the losing side of the ledger.

 

The rookie superstar, whose father, Al Horford, was on the floor back when Atlanta last lost a game back in December 2014, scored a career-high 78 points and sunk a turnaround corner jumper over Marvin Bagley III to lift the Seattle Knicks to a 208-207 triple-overtime victory, ending Atlanta’s unprecedented....

 

~lw3

One of the best post in HS history. 

Edited January 29, 2015 by nbasupes40retired