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NBA Playoffs – Nets vs Hawks Game 1 Predictions
The Atlanta Hawks enter the postseason as favorites for the first time in a very long while, hoping their fantastic offensive basketball still works in the playoffs, facing a team they dominated in the regular season, the Brooklyn Nets.
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NBA Rumors – New York Knicks Interested in Signing DeMarre Carroll
A couple of good seasons from DeMarre Carroll with the Atlanta Hawks send him into free agency with plenty of interested parties, including the New York Knicks, a team Carroll wouldn’t mind playing for next season.
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NBA Playoffs – Atlanta Hawks Ending the Brooklyn Nets Streak
The Atlanta Hawks are on sort of shaky ground at the moment, but they’re good enough to end the six-game winning streak the Brooklyn Nets were on, losing 131-99 to the number one seed in the East which might cause them quite a lot of problems when it come to actually making the playoffs.
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San Antonio Spurs – Still the Masters
The meeting between mentor and disciple, Gregg Popovich and Mike Budenholzer, ended in a massive knockout in favor of the San Antonio Spurs, manhandling the Atlanta Hawks on the road 114-95.
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Golden State Warriors – The Best Team in the NBA, Period
Both the Golden State Warriors and the Atlanta Hawks were missing their starting shooting guards as the conference leaders squared off for the second time this season. One team didn’t really get any worse despite the key omission.
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NBA Rumors – Elton Brand to Retire at End of Season
After celebrating his 36th birthday, Elton Brand, barley playing these days for the Atlanta Hawks, is probably getting closer and closer to the end of his NBA career, very likely to retire at the end of the season.
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Atlanta Hawks – Josh Smith Doesn’t Get a Very Warm Welcome
The Atlanta Hawks struggled against a Houston Rockets team playing without James Harden but with a lot of fire, but the team with the best record in the NBA came back from a big deficit in a huge fourth quarter and left Josh Smith with a bitter taste in his mouth.
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Dallas Mavericks – Rajon Rondo Hurting Them Even When He Isn’t Playing
The fallout from the Rajon Rondo – Rick Carlisle incident? A one game suspension for the big-mouthed, big-ego point guard, and looking quite terrible in a road game against the Atlanta Hawks, losing 104-87.
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Toronto Raptors – Maybe ‘Best in the East’ is Still Up for Grabs
The Atlanta Hawks seem to be slipping since the end of their impressive winning streak, giving the Toronto Raptors a chance to take advantage and maybe change things on top of the Eastern conference. A 105-80 win on the road is certainly a hint of things the might be coming.
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Memphis Grizzlies – Great at Ruining Beautiful Basketball
It turns out there’s a way to slow down the Atlanta Hawks and make their beautiful basketball style look bad: Simply beat them up. That’s part of the plan the Memphis Grizzlies used in a 94-88 win over the leaders in the Eastern conference.