Hawks Odds and Ends

[JayBirdHawk]

 

[AHF]

1 minute ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

This is a good step for giving families more reason to come out.  Getting some local restaurants to not mark their (tasty) stuff up like the Falcons do will be even one step better.

[Spud2nique]

4 minutes ago, JayBirdHawk said:

 

? I saw that...there’s gonna be a party ? up in Philips boy!!!!

 

[LamarHampton]

Seriously welcome. Getting a couple Monday Night brewskies during the game put a brewsin' on my wallet. (See what I did there?) I would seriously hit up Taco Bell with the kids before the game to safe on big dolla dolla billz at the Arena. May rethink now... Good move, Ressler.

[High5]

If Trae Young is the truth then we're going to have a legit NBA crowd within the next couple of seasons.

[JayBirdHawk]

 

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[macdaddy]

Who's daughter was it that won the tourny last year?  I wonder if she played again or was there to hand over the belt?

[JayBirdHawk]

No longer a Hawk, but still....

 

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[JayBirdHawk]

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1043186817267380224

[Gray Mule]

All these other NBA teams have their stars and all stars.  Then, there is the Atlanta Hawks.  Compared to all these other teams, what do we have?

Who?  Rookies and second year players, for the most part.  And, as these players go, so goes the Hawks.  Can these young men compete?  Three rookies who have no experience in NBA ball. 

Some way, some how, these young Hawks must be made into a team.  We do have some good players left over from last season and have added some others.  Yet, it seems that everyone writes about how terrible we are going to be. 

Every victory will be a surprise to our opponent.  Maybe not too often but they will come and the nearer to the end of the season the more often they will come.  This season's Hawk team will be better than last seasons.  That's not a lot but we are not going to be as sorry as some think.

GO ATL HAWKS !!

[JayBirdHawk]

The only thing I like about ESPN anymore are their ads.  The mascot ones are always funny.

Go Harry, lol.

 

 

My fave right now is The John Clayton Im3done with my segment one.

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[LamarHampton]

On October 4, 2018 at 0:22 PM, JayBirdHawk said:

 

 

 

Glad Stinger is still rockin the clean shaven look. That spotty fungus looking thing he had going on for several years was tough to watch.  Always loved the analysis, just not that look.

[JayBirdHawk]

9 minutes ago, LamarHampton said:

Glad Stinger is still rockin the clean shaven look. That spotty fungus looking thing he had going on for several years was tough to watch.  Always loved the analysis, just not that look.

[JayBirdHawk]

This is a great read.

 

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After their youngest son went off to Georgetown last year, the couple relocated to Atlanta, where they're building a house, in order to fully focus on the Hawks. So far, they say they have been warmly received by the locals, so long as they keep their Left Coast politics to themselves. 

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Says Ressler, "Many of the things we've done we thought were luxuries but we realized early on were requirements: having a top-tier practice facility and a really world-class arena.

 

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In the three years since that night, Ressler and Gertz have built their new team a 90,000-square-foot training complex and sports medicine center on the Emory University campus. They've also overseen the $192 million makeover of the former Philips Arena, newly rechristened the State Farm Arena, in downtown Atlanta — $142.5 million of the renovation was covered by public funds, the remaining $50 million was paid for by the Resslers and other team investors, like Sara Blakely, the billionaire founder of Spanx — outfitting what was once the Hawks' dumpy nest with blond wood paneling, copper accents and plantation shutters. Think Staples Center meets Soho House. 

 

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It was Ressler who in May insisted that Gertz represent the team at the nationally televised NBA Draft Lottery, in what essentially was her coming-out party as the face of the Hawks, a move that caught many fans off guard. "Needle off the record — Jami Gertz owns the Hawks???," tweeted one viewer. The notion of Gertz being the team's ambassador was not popular with NBA officials, who typically want the role to be filled by a team legend like Dominique Wilkins. "But I said f*** it," Ressler says. "I'd rather go with Jami."

 

[JayBirdHawk]

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