Hawks Trade for Bibby
The Atlanta Hawks are on the verge of making the playoff for the first time in years, and hope their latest trade will be enough to push them over the top. All year, the Hawks have relied solely on Joe Johnson to provide the outside scoring for the team, so the rest of the league was able to throw junk defenses at him to slow the Hawks. With Mike Bibby and his 37% career 3-point average coming to ATL, other teams will have another threat to guard.
In the trade, Atlanta sent starting PG Anthony Johnson, Shelden Williams, Tyronn Lue, and Loranzen Wright to the Kings, as well as a second round pick in 2008. The Hawks still hold onto Acie Law III as their back up PG, and must feel that he is the future at the position. In addition to his outside shooting abilities, Bibby has averaged over 6 assists per game over his career, and brings a wealth of post-season experience to Atlanta. The Kings were one of the more powerful teams in the league just a few years ago, and were certainly one of the most exciting, with Bibby, Webber, Stoyakavitch, and others, although they never advanced to the finals.
The Hawks now have a more formidable team, with Bibby, Marvin Williams, Josh Childress, Josh Smith, and Al Horford. They are young, but Bibby brings a veteran’s leadership to the quarterback position–somthing that the team has lacked recently.
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