Hawks In Da News

Have no fear loyal readers, none of our players have had any sort of run-ins with the law, as of now. There was that incident back in March where a past player who shall not be named, did find himself in a wee bit of trouble. But other than that it has been smooth sailing since. Here are some links to new Hawks articles around the web today. This is just a short and quick post, but expect a longer, more well-thought-out post later tonight.

First billing will have to go to everyone's favorite AJC beat writer seen here talking to Childress. I am pretty sure that picture is from last year, unless Sekou has been traveling to Greece without telling us...Anyway here is his blog where he talks about the new cohesiveness the team has. Personally, I do not see what took so long for this to happen, as most of these guys have been around each other for a while.

I touched on it yesterday and looks like I beat Sekou to the punch by a few hours, but Josh Smith is indeed coming back to play tonight against Memphis. He is worried about rushing things and promises to take it slow, hopefully he moves a little quicker than he did to resign with us this summer.

The Atlanta Hawks web page spent some time with the Memphis Grizzlies Manager of Communications and for some reason felt that he was the best person in their organization to give a preview of the upcoming game tonight. At first I thought, the Manager of Communications, this is the guy to provide insight? But at another glance, and further investigation, the kid is legit, he even has a Memphis Grizzlies blog. And in fact, here is a link to his preview of the game where he interviews Micah Hart about the matchup.

Here is CNNSi's NBA power rankings. I don't really understand why we are 13 behind plenty of teams that we beat, including some with worse records (I'm looking at you New Orleans). But I do agree with his assessment on being proud of our away record. Seriously this little tidbit needs to get more recognition as we have almost won half as many games on the road as we did last year.

Speaking of power rankings, ESPN has us a little better clocking in at the number 11 spot. This one does not make me as angry as CNNSi, except the New Orleans fightin' Paul's are still in front of us. And using a statistical system that I will never be able to comprehend, Hollinger puts us at number 14. This is moving up from last week's ranking of 17, well la-di-freakin-da.

ESPN has also done an awards prediction article, even though we have only played one month into the season, the all-knowing sports network is ready to predict who will win what award. Look to number nine on the MVP watch, and also check out our boys getting dominated by Devin Harris. Thanks ESPN for including a picture of the Hawks in a shot where four of our players look like they just got worked. Can't wait to watch our ONE nationally televised game with you guys in two weeks.

Lastly, nothing to do with the Atlanta Hawks, but cool nonetheless, for all those who have been to Venice, does this cost as much as a gondola ride, and if so, why would anyone do that slow boat ride?

(Forgot to add this, but some people in Vegas think the Hawks got this game by 9 points, if I was a betting man, I'd say this number might be a tad low and that the Hawks win and cover the points)