ATL for life?

So the going rate for a 6 time All Star shooting guard (one of the 5 best in the entire world right now) who’s still in his prime is a package full of scrubs (has been’s and never will be’s). And yet we’re supposed to be happy about this trade because the Joe contract (at least at the price we paid, which was some $30 million over his market value) never should have happened in the first place? I guess so. This is what it’s like to be a Hawks fan: you lose your (overpaid) best player for NOTHING, and you’re supposed to be happy. You’ve been one of the top 10 teams in the NBA for the past 4 seasons, yet because your ceiling is limited, you’re supposed to be thrilled because we can now rebuild again for the FOURTH time in the past 13 years (the Shareef and Jason Terry era, the Al Harrington era, the Joe Johnson and Josh Smith and Al Horford era, and now this). Seriously. This is life as a Hawks fan.


Yes, we are pathetic.