Hawks catch Rockets by surprise
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The Hawks were supposed to pack it in for the night. Right there, down all of 11 points with six minutes left, the Rockets expected Atlanta to dutifully play the roll of Eastern Conference patsy and slink away quietly.
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Antoine Walker had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the Atlanta Hawks rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final 6:11 to beat the Houston Rockets 88-84 Tuesday night.
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Last week Xaverian learned the importance of the two-point conversion. This week the Hawks learned the importance of the field goal.
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Chauncey Billups scored 27 points, and Richard Hamilton had 21 to help the Detroit Pistons rout the Atlanta Hawks 99-84 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory.
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Bob Sura scored 17 points and the Houston Rockets won their sixth straight game, holding the Indiana Pacers to a single point in the final seven minutes in a 91-83 victory last night in Indianapolis.
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Tony Delk and Predrag Drobjnak both scored 16 points as the Atlanta Hawks stunned the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons 88-72 in National Basketball Association play Friday in Auburn Hills.
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It was shaping up to be another mundane evening in the back-to-back life of an NBA team. The Knicks, pushed to the limit by the lowly Hawks in Atlanta on Tuesday, clearly were going through the motions early on against Memphis last night at the Garden.
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Pau Gasol scored 24 points to lead Memphis to a 97-89 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night, the Grizzlies&#39; third win in four games under new coach Mike Fratello.
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So we caught most of the Rockets-Kings exhibition game in Shanghai, China this morning. It felt damn good to be watching NBA hoops again.
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Chris Paul had 19 points and 11 assists and made four free throws in the final 15 seconds to lift the New Orleans Hornets to an 87-82 victory over the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
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Carlos Arroyo scores 15 points, Dwight Howard adds 11 points and 11 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic coasts to a 98-79 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday night.
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Ray Allen scored 20 points and Rashard Lee added 17 as the Seattle SuperSonics overcame the ejections of Jerome James and Danny Fortson to beat the Atlanta Hawks 94-79 Thursday.
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Tyronn Lue scored a season-high 18 points to lead seven Atlanta players in double figures, and the Hawks snapped a six-game losing streak with a 103-80 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night.
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Juwan Howard scored 20 points for the Rockets, who dropped the Grizzlies to 0-and-4. Yao Ming added 14 points and eleven rebounds to the win.
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Eddy Curry scored 19 points, five of his Chicago teammates also reached double figures and the Bulls surged over .500 for the first time in more than two years with a 107-82 rout of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night.
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Jermaine O'Neal's big game spoiled an otherwise happy homecoming for his good friend Al Harrington. O'Neal had 25 points and 13 rebounds to offset a dazzling performance by Harrington in the Indiana Pacers' 93-86 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.
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The Hawks used a quick transition game to end a three-game skid with a 104-92 against the Nets on Saturday night.