Atlanta Hawks

April 20, 2012 – Griffin Gotta This time next week will officially be NBA Playoffs Eve; with six days left to decide who plays whom and who will qualify in the lower half of each respective conference’s standings, this is essentially a final reminder to breathe deeply and try to get any pressing matters taken [...]

April 13, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Before we get to the weekend, a quick word on the Miami Heat and the “statement game.” Clearly, last night’s inability to overpower the Chicago Bulls’ bench unit is not going to look good on the resume, seeing as how they may need to defeat these Bulls — with [...]

March 25, 2012 – Dan Favale Amid a lockout-shortened schedule, the NBA has been witness to a litany of unbecoming basketball. As the Atlanta Hawks and Utah Jazz came to show us though, that’s not always a bad thing. By now, you, the NBA faithful are fully aware of what transpired Sunday night. The Jazz [...]

March 5, 2012 – R.S. De France Los Angeles Lakers 5-time champion, 14-time All-Star, and 2-time Finals’ MVP Kobe Bryant has said repeatedly this season that he wants to go out winning a 6th NBA championship. But how can that happen with this Lakers’ team, one of the best defensive teams, one of the worst [...]

February 16, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors Steve Nash is a magician. One that seems defiant towards the concept of aging. Check out this circus shot he somehow gets to fall late in the 4th quarter against the Atlanta Hawks last night. The Suns eventually lost 101-99 but it wasn’t for lack of trying by [...]

February 16, 2012 – R.S. De France After a 3-3 Grammy road trip, the Los Angeles Lakers, 17-12, looked glad to be home, but their legs looked tired as they struggled to beat the Atlanta Hawks, 18-11, Tuesday night, 86-78. Although the Lakers were successful when they stuck to Coach Mike Brown’s strategy to force [...]

February 10, 2012 – Griffin Gotta This week brought us one of the more perplexing questions of the NBA season thus far: Is it better to be an All-Star reserve or Jeremy Lin? Right now, you could make the argument that the mythology surrounding Lin is on another level than that of being named to [...]

November 29, 2011 – Allen Moll With the NBA Lockout officially over, training camps and free agent movement will be on everyone’s mind as the NBA’s mandated December 9th re-start date to once again begin basketball related activity approaches. [...]

October 7, 2011 – Dane Carbaugh By far one of the most interesting players of the last two decades of NBA basketball has to be Daron “Mookie” Oshay Blaylock. A perrenial starter, Blaylock was on the court for tip-off for 800 of the 889 NBA games he played in and finished with career averages of [...]

April 29, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors First was Derrick Rose who had a bad wheel, now it’s Carlos Boozer with an injury for the Bulls… Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer underwent an MRI on his right big toe, and the results were consistent with turf toe. Boozer didn’t practice as the Bulls prepared to [...]