The Knicks and Clippers have both been rumored this off-season of having interest in Allen Iverson, but the news today is that J-Chill’s current club, Olimpiakos, is interested in signing AI. Their offer apparently is 2 years, 1o million, which would probably be around the same number as AI will get in the Association. One thing I cannot imagine is AI taking less money to play over there then J-Chill is making (which I believe is about 20 million over 3 years.) I think it would be much more fun to see AI over there than Childress.
Joe Smith is still considering the Hawks (as well as the Cavs,) says Hoopsworld. I don’t dislike this more the Hawks, but I don’t like it. I think I just have a very pessimistic attitude when it comes to veterans coming to play for Atlanta. In the past few year 8+ year vets that play 10-15 per game for the Hawks usually have their “leadership & toughness” outweighed by their displeasure of being on the end of the bench of a 45 loss team. Maybe if we come out and win more than we lost, guys like Joe Smith will be happier, therefore play better.
The Hawks have an off-season grade of A, as ProBasketballNews grades the Southeast division’s Summer moves. With this quote, “The Hawks moved closer to the East’s elite and further from the middle of the pack.” I kind of think we have stood pat after all our moves, rather than moving up or down. That really does not make sense after we got Crawford and Teague and only lost the IV and Craig. Oh well.
