By Elaine Donnelly
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The Indiana Pacers finally showed they could win in Atlanta.
When Ivan Johnson is banging around in the lane and staring down opponents, the Atlanta Hawks are a different team.
The only trade involving Dwight Howard came last summer. The potent scorers that moved did so long ago.
The only trade involving Dwight Howard came last summer. The potent scorers that moved did so long ago.
The Atlanta Hawks suspended top-scorer Josh Smith for Wednesday night's home game against the Brooklyn Nets for "conduct detrimental to the team" following an incident in practice the previous day.
John Wall gave his teammates a lift with 14 points and four assists in his first game of the season, and the worst-in-NBA Washington Wizards have their first winning streak after a 93-83 victory Saturday night over the Atlanta Hawks.
With 23 seconds to play on Tuesday night at Verizon Center, the Washington Wizards and Atlanta Hawks were tied at 90. It was anybody's game at that point, but the Wizards had the momentum. They were tired of getting manhandled by the Hawks, who had beaten them in their last five meetings.
The Hawks wanted there to be no doubt this time. When the Wizards came to visit back on Nov. 21, they took the Hawks to overtime, and came within a split second of a winning on Martell Webster's catch and shoot at the buzzer.
Not content to stand pat after a fifth-place finish and first-round playoff exit, the Atlanta Hawks went through a wholesale makeover in the offseason. Danny Ferry was hired as the new president and general manager in June, after spending five seasons as the general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and last season as president of the San Antonio Spurs.
Washington Wizards coach Randy Wittman normally begins his postgame news conferences by making a brief statement before taking questions. After the past couple of games, Wittman has been at a loss for words.
The Atlanta Hawks are running out of players.
Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith has a strained tendon in his left knee and is day-to-day for the playoff series against the Boston Celtics.
Rajon Rondo lost control in the final minute of Game 1, and that means he won't be on the court for Game 2.
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Joe Johnson says his left knee "feels 15 times better."
"There's plenty of time to think about what the future presents," he said. "I'm not really concerned about that right now."
"I wouldn't have believed it," said Josh Smith, who, like many of his teammates, might've played his last game in a Hawks uniform. "We just couldn't get it going offensively."
