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The rest is context, tangential curiosity, and the avoidance of conclusions. Before the season, I suspected that Jamal Crawford might marginalize Maurice Evans.

I know you didn't see enough of rookie point guard Jeff Teague against Portland.

Jamal Crawford scored 27 points off the bench and doled out seven assists to lead the Atlanta Hawks past the Portland Trail Blazers, 97-91, at the Rose Garden.

Los Angeles Another big game and another big let down for the Hawks. The Hawks lost their sixth straight game against one of the league's elite teams dating back to the playoffs last season, falling 118-110 to the world champion Los Angeles Lakers Sunday night at Staples Center.

I know that it is only the first week of the 2009-2010 season and the Hawks still have 80 games to go, but with the best free agent pool of this century only one year away, it is just way too hard not to talk about it.

The Atlanta Hawks have been a young team on the rise for the past few seasons but has their talent taken them as far as they can go in the current Eastern Conference? During the off season they added a couple of veterans in Jamal Crawford and Joe Smith to bolster their lineup and drafted Jeff Teague out of Wake Forest.

Jeff Teague: More help off the bench. 1. They can match depth with any team anywhere.

A After a reasonably injury-free preseason the Hawks came crashing back to reality Sunday.

The Atlanta Hawks are a terrific young team. After years of futility and poor draft day selections, the Hawks broke through in 2007-08 when pushing eventual champion Boston Celtics to the brink in a seven game first round playoff loss.

Vince Carter was 9-of-10 from the field and scored 26 points to lead the Orlando Magic to a 123-86 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night to cap the NBA's only unbeaten preseason.

Mike Woodson is smiling. He clearly doesn't read Bodog.com. After an offseason that saw the Hawks keep their three best free agents , strengthen their bench , eliminate both a punchline and a draft mistakeA , and draft a promising guard , optimism surrounding the franchise seems near an all-time high.

The Atlanta Hawks have 13 players on their roster after waiving guard Mario West and centers Garret Siler and Courtney Sims.

Guard Jeff Teague is one of the newcomers that the Hawks hope can give them a boost this season.

Marvin Williams had 16 points and six rebounds and Al Horford added 14 points and six rebounds to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 113-95 preseason victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.

Actor/author Hill Harper was in town over the weekend. Sounds like he'd like to stick around.

There's no identity crisis for Hawks swingman Marvin Williams. He knows exactly who he is.

Maurice Evans, playing for the first time in the preseason, scored 27 points to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 111-96 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night.

Deep down, Zaza Pachulia has always been a people pleaser. Enlarge photo Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com Zaza Pachulia talks to sous-chef Justin Cox as he checks out lobster legs at Pechulia's recently opened restaurant Eno by Zaza in Atlanta.

's name is rarely mentioned by Hawks coach Mike Woodson. In two plus years with the Hawks Woodson said he hasn't had to worry about his starting center doing anything other than what's asked of him.

Rookie Jeff Teague had 17 points and seven assists, leading the Atlanta Hawks to a 107-90 victory over the Charlotte in a preseason game Monday night that saw Bobcats coach Larry Brown escorted off the court by security after being ejected.