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Newsday, Melville, N.Y., Ken Berger column: NBA HOT SHOTS

Nov 16, 2008 (Newsday - These Hawks are for real Could I have been any more off base in my prediction that the Hawks would take a serious step back this season? The defending champs, pushed to seven games in their first-round...

Mike Bibby, Hawks feel the sting of disrespect

By Mark Murphy / NBA notes Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Added 30m ago Though most of them are loathe to admit it, NBA players do indeed pay attention to what is said about them. That’s especially true when they are disrespected...

The Bizarro World of the NBA

The NBA season is only two weeks old and I'm already confused. The Atlanta Hawks are 6-1 and the San Antonio Spurs are 2-5. What the... Okay, I can see the LA Lakers rolling out to a 7-0 record as they are truly an elite team...

Opinion: Hawks fans finally have a contender to cheer

With pieces in place, years of misery are coming to an end in Atlanta With a strong supporting cast, guard Joe Johnson, right, is giving Hawks fans reason to believe they're contenders this season. The modern-day Atlanta Hawks...

Opinion: Four teams to start taking seriously now

Who will be this year's surprise? Try the Hawks, Suns, Cavs and Blazers Last year, no one would believe that the Hornets — near the top of the West pretty much all season — were for real. The Hornets slaughtered Dallas, a...

Royal Flush

by Matt Caputo Royal Ivey nickname isn’t tough, but his defense is. I liked the core group of guys they had—a young, get up and down, youthful kind of group—and it seemed like they were having fun playing with each other. SLAM:...

Basketball is going global

For nearly three decades, the NBA has dominated the world's professional basketball circuit largely due to its reputation of having the best players on the planet. That reputation has sustained well into the 21st century thanks...

Frank Deford: American exchange rate dwindles in sports, too

For more than a half-century now, the United States has had a neat arrangement in the international trafficking of athletes. Starting with sending our baseball has-beens to Japan and our never-wases to the Canadian Football...

Hawks have bonded

Hawks' coach Mike Woodson isn't griping so far about playing so many games on the road to start the season, with his club away seven of the first 10. Before meeting the Raptors last night, the 3-0 Hawks had won big games in New...

Raptors begin 1st extended road trip

Toronto's Chris Bosh, left, and Josh Smith of Atlanta battle during a game last season. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Coming off their first defeat at home, the Toronto Raptors start their first extended regular-season road trip...

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