Acie Law IV News

Not that anyone is expecting great things from Jeff Teague in the short term, nor that anyone is especially expecting him to play a lot* in 2009-10 but I still believe it's instructive to look at what players in circumstances similar to Teague's have accomplished in their rookie seasons.

The moves are coming so quickly around here these days, you might mistake this for a regular NBA offseason.

Name: Acie Law IV Team: Golden State Last seen in Vegas: Law was back as a second-year vet with the Hawks last summer.

Hawks general manager Rick Sund doesn't have enough hands for all the phones he'll need for keeping things straight this month in free agency.

The standard line teams use after the NBA draft is that you need to wait two or three years to grade the winners and losers.

A month ago, I would have been unequivocally upbeat about getting Jeff Teague, possessor of both significant offensive talent and significant, realistic room for improvement, with the 19th pick of the NBA Draft.

For a first day on a new job, Jeff Teague couldn't have asked for a better one. Not that he would have known any better.

Are we believing this? The Atlanta Hawks acting boldly? Acting smartly? We should be believing.

The five minutes the Hawks spend on the clock in the first round of Thursday night's NBA draft is just a small part of a retooling of the roster that could take all summer.

The NBA's pre-draft wheeling and dealing is on a roll already. The Atlanta Hawks are on the verge of completing a trade with the Golden State Warriors that would send point guards Acie Law IV ... by Taylor Smith 67 reads Sports The NBA's pre-draft wheeling and dealing is on a roll already.

Thus, the season was bittersweet, one in which the Hawks showed their potential as one of the top teams in the NBA, but also their tremendous vulnerability.

Three years into his NBA career, there's still little to indicate why the Hawks spent the 33rd pick of the 2006 Draft on Solomon Jones.

Acie Law IV's future in Atlanta is tenuous at best. His second season was even more of a lost year than his first.

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Al Horford's season is fairly straightforward to recap: He's a delight to watch on both ends of the floor, he's not a big enough part of the offense, and that fact combined with the time he missed due to injury might have obscured the encouraging and, one hopes, significant improvements he made in his second year in the league.

The Los Angeles Clippers won the NBA lottery Tuesday and wasted no time announcing they plan to take Oklahoma power forward Blake Griffin with the top overall pick in the June draft.

Considering both the ownership situation and his brief tenure I'm going to give Rick Sund the benefit of the doubt for the time being.

Acie Law IV is game-time decision. It's not been reported* anywhere so I can't link to anything but it appears that Marvin Williams will start tonight.

It's been a long time since Hawks fans have seen Speedy Claxton on the court. They'll get their chance Tuesday.