Paul Millsap won’t leave the Atlanta Hawks hanging. He has a player option for next season and, as expected, will decline it to enter free agency. The 32-year-old made that much clear, for the most part, during his end-of-season presser, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: It took some doing, but Paul Millsap finally said what everyone [...]
Do you want the good news or the bad news first, Atlanta Hawks fans? Let’s start with the bad news. Paul Millsap has missed each of the last five games with a knee injury, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be returning too soon, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: Paul Millsap will be out at [...]
March 28, 2017
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The Hawks have been a franchise seemingly on the cusp of a tear-down and rebuild for almost three years now, as a team occupying the space of a team good enough to win a playoff series, but not a real contender. When the Hawks dealt Kyle Korver a month and a half ago, many around [...]
March 2, 2017
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Does anyone believe the Atlanta Hawks? The answer to that question might have been a resounding no roughly one month ago, just after they shipped Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But their preference not to trade Paul Millsap no longer feels like the most transparent of ploys. We are less than two weeks from the [...]
February 13, 2017
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Despite being pulled from the chopping block shortly after Kyle Korver was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Paul Millsap is no lock to finish the season with the Atlanta Hawks. As The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on The Ringer’s NBA Show (via HoopsHype): There’s no question that [Atlanta] may revisit it again here before the [...]
January 17, 2017
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It looks like the Atlanta Hawks won’t be sellers at the trade deadline after all. For now. After trading Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Hawks moved Paul Millsap to the chopping block. But, roughly one second later, they took him off, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: For now, Atlanta Hawks All-Star forward Paul [...]
January 10, 2017
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By trading Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Atlanta Hawks have, ostensibly, started a fire sale. It is not a conventional auction in the most fundamental sense; it would be truly shocking to see them shop guys like Dwight Howard and Kent Bazemore, the latter of whom doesn’t hold much value anyway. The focus [...]
January 9, 2017
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Paul Millsap is happy right where he is. Following a report from ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst that said the Atlanta Hawks were listening to offers for Millsap, the All-Star forward has made it clear he prefers to stay put, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: [tweet https://twitter.com/CVivlamoreAJC/status/816354627637678080] Millsap owns a player option for [...]
January 3, 2017
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It seems like the Atlanta Hawks have resigned themselves to being mediocre through the rest of this season. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, they are listening to trade offers for All-Star forward Paul Millsap: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/815693410057129984] We can’t really say this was inevitable, particularly after the Hawks blitzed opponents to start the season. But they [...]
January 2, 2017
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Paul Millsap’s expected foray into free agency next summer may not actually take place. Though, to be sure, it probably will. Asked about his free-agency plans, around eight months in advance of any decision, the 31-year-old Paul Millsap gave no hint as to whether he’ll decline his $21.5 million player option for the 2017-18 campaign, [...]
October 12, 2016
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