Josh Powell Camp Features ATL Legends
Josh Powell recently held his annual basketball camp in Raleigh, NC. As in years past, Josh was able to bring in another Atlanta High School legend, Dwight Howard, to lend a hand. Check out the video below from ONE Entertainment. Make sure you watch through to the end and check out some of Powell’s highlights starting at about the two-minute mark.
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Extension Before Halloween For Horford?
jamal craford agent will meet with us about his future anyway jcraw will not be getting traded marvin willams is on the trade block for a center •Etan Thomas On ‘Short List’ For Hawks•Hawks Don’t Want Horford To Test Market now etan thomas will be signed somewhere this week are next week just updating yall
Signing a third team All- NBA player to a MAX deal, Not picking up any worth while free agents, acting like they dont want to sign Jamal Crawford, re- signing Collins and not addressing the center issue makes me wonder what is going on. Why not explain to joe that if we sign you to a deal worth less to get a key free agent, would it have worked out? I see Miami, Chicago and Boston got better through free agents and trades, PLEASE show me where the Hawks have bettered themselves. They have a bigger payroll with the same talent, something doesnt add up. Am I the only fan who notices this.
whoa havent been on for a while. on ajc.com i heard that we are close to a deal with etan thomas. he would solve our center crisis.
Zach what up dog been on a vaca. I also heard we got Pape Sy. He goin to be our teyshaun prince.
training camp in a month which means alot of trades. if u like this trade Marvin williams gets traded to denver for JR smith tell me
man smoove i love that trade but include chris anderson and pape sy he might be a teyshaun prince any way hawks have some desicing to make do they need to trade crawford or give him a nother contract same with al but on thursday we will talk to crawfords agent and also who is going to be the starting center zaza are etan thomas got to talk to another insider
Make Eaton start. If you make zaza start he will foul out
yall had mike bibby marvin moe zaza but theres rumors that we might trade crawford and smoove for melo jr smith and chris anderson anyway j-smoove got bad news for you hawks are proably not going to let etan start they want zaza and teage to have break out seasons well got to go to a meeting
Zach I want to see zaza get delt some where. I hear miami needs a bigman. We trade zaza for cash and a future 2nd rounder
cash and future 2 rounder bro did your dad tell you about this trade and did you get the letter that joe wrote on the last blog anway smoove the reason i say this is heat have no cash and there 2 second round pick will be in the 50s are 60 and the letters is called joe makes a promise
Three teams ask about Hawks’ Crawford and those three teams are nuggets,celtics,spurs
Its over. so over joe johnson we want to run this team into the ground now ppl are talking about signing AI to replace him? WTF?
we are going to give both a extion on the same day and if they both sign it well have a press cofrence
When Al Horford said earlier this summer that the Hawks needed to add an “impact center” to be a serious contender in the Eastern Conference, I’m going to guess he wasn’t talking about Jason Collins (who had no impact with the Hawks last season) or Etan Thomas (whose impact lately has been blunted by injuries).
Yet as training camp approaches that’s what the Hawks have behind Horford and Zaza. They re-signed Collins early, struck out with Shaq (who had endorsements from both Al and Smoove) and Brad Miller and now are set to add Thomas.
I bumped into Al at Philips today and asked him if that’s going to be enough to get the Hawks over the ceiling that for this franchise has been set short of the East finals for so long.
“I am going to war with who I’ve got,” Al said
What he’s got at center is Zaza, who came on at the end of last season and stacks up favorably against other NBA backups though he isn’t a stout deterrent at the rim; a leaner and apparently more-motivated version of Collins; and Thomas, a tough banger in the post who will try and show that injuries have not robbed him of his rebounding and shot-blocking ability.
Those three players plus Al, Smoove and Josh Powell will make up Atlanta’s frontcourt. That rotation, with L.D.’s plan to play Al at power forward and Smoove at small forward at times, is going to have to be enough.
Horford had hoped Atlanta would add an impact center who could split minutes with him at center and shore up the interior D against the likes of Dwight Howard and Boston’s frontcourt (and that was before the C’s added Jermaine O’Neal and Shaq). Now he will roll with Zaza, Twin and Thomas.
“I haven’t seen him, but I know that Jason Collins is coming in in great shape and has really worked,” Horford said. “He is a guy who could have been utilized a little more last year. And we’ve got Etan Thomas who will be here soon and he will be a great help, as well.”
Thomas met today with L.D. and his staff. An announcement of his signing should come later today.
“We need that inside toughness in here,” Al said. “The more that we have, the better.”
Jamal Crawford’s pending pay-me-or-trade-me request notwithstanding, it looks like Atlanta will send out the same top nine for 2010-11 as they did for 2009-10.
So how can the Hawks improve on No. 3 in the East and the second round of the playoffs, particularly with Boston still Boston, Miami shooting past them on paper, Orlando’s so-far unconquerable core still intact, and Chicago and Milwaukee creeping up from behind?
“I know that I’m excited personally with what Coach Drew has been talking about,” Horford said. “He wants to change the offense a little bit and do things a little differently. Having said that, it all depends on the kind of level that our key guys like Joe Johnson and Josh Smith [reach] coming in. Mentally, I think that’s going to be a part of how good we are as a team.
“I think there is room for growth. There definitely is. We have to work harder if we want to be any better because, man, the East. Milwaukee is better. Chicago is better. Miami is better, it goes without saying. It’s going to be an interesting year for us.”
The same can be said for Al, who is heading into the final year of his rookie-scale contract fresh off his first selection to the All-Star game. The Hawks can extend him for up to five years and $82 million by Oct. 31 or tender him to make him a restricted free agent next summer.
Indications are that the Hawks plan to make an aggressive push to sign Al to an extension but that process hasn’t started.
“I haven’t heard anything yet,” Horford said. “I think anything will start coming once training camp gets going. I am just kind of leaving to that to the owners and my representation and just seeing what happens. I am going to keep working hard and keep doing what I’ve been doing.”
ok well we send him to nyk i hear they have money. The point is i want him to get traded. He cant go a minute without fouling 5 guys.
Zach why u cpoyin qoutes from micheal cunningham in an ajc post?
How much and how long is the extension for jamal?
Here this im goin on hoopworld.com right and the rumor is that golden state want to trade monta ellis. Zach this is the part you tell me why we should get him. Im talkin a trade for him sending marvin mo and zaza there.this is a steal and if asg wants to make a grown man move go for that.
If we trade Mo Zaza and marvin we will play worse next year, dnt get me wrong We will score more points we will just loose more games youre trading your best 2 perimeter defenders for an injury prone guard who doesnt play defense, and could mess up chemistry because he needs to dominate the ball, and your best big man off the bench? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
are you kidding me? did u just say that marvin and mo are our best perimeter defenders? Can i ask u a q? Did you see the orlando series? I mean just even one game. you saw guys like carter,Peitrus,and barnes score 20 a nite. so please dont even say that they are our best guys perimeter defenders.ROFL LMAO LMFAO
ay ay ay stop fighting this is not the magic blog are te golden state blog and hawksfanman you are making me lmao to marvin and moe naw man
zach im not even trying to fight he thinks that marvin and mo can help us on perimeter D. please go tell your mom what u said so she can give u a slap up side your head. please
well i wouldnt say monta is has a big ego. So i agree with one thing your sayin
smoove all of us write the same thing and i think we should do what the trade you were thinking of just include reggie evans
welcome to the team etan
Now if we brought reggie williams I’s feel a little better about the trade
ok so i agree with you this time. His 15 points will be useful in LD’s new offense. and if we trade marvin and mo we still have pape sy
honestly I think its rebuilding time we should move forward with Teauge and (Jordan) Crawford, and Either AL or Josh, (Probably Al), and trade everybody up for a good anchor to the team and alot of potential, becuz if we lose Jamal were taking steps back were not going to win a championship either way so might as well rebuild, I would really like reggie williams on the team.
dumb move. dont trade them. I would trade teague but i wouldnt trade the rest.
“We’re excited to add a player of Etan’s caliber to our roster. He provides additional veteran leadership, physicality and toughness to our club, especially on…”
- Hawks coach Larry Drew on his newest addition, veteran big man Etan Thomas
zach are u saying that we are going to sign horford and jamal the same day? Ohh and are you getting any updates about pape sy. One more thing when are jaml’s agent and sund goin to meet. tell him we need to sign him to a 3 year deal.
yes smoove hawks are close to signing sy and jamal and rick already met and the contract will be mre than 3 years
Cool!! when are they going to announce it to the press? Ohh and Deron Williams is like melo, he wants out!! This is a chance to sign a guy we should have signed in 2005 instead of marvin.
before halloween
zach are u sure?
why you say that
MY NEW NAME IS HAWKS INSIDER
ok zach lol. well i just want to know your source
all these people on that video will be at our tranning camp
my source is NADIA JEFEREYS
so u mean to tell me dwight howard is going to be at training camp?
not him but i wish
Lol me to but does van exel help us?