Updated: Hawks schedule released
Vivlamore filling in for MC.
The Hawks 2012-13 regular-season schedule was released Thursday and fans will get an opportunity to see two former key members of their team – Joe Johnson and Marvin Williams – return to Philips Arena in a five-day span.
The schedule also includes games against the Eastern and Western Conference champions, the Heat and Thunder, in a five-day span in the first month of the season.
Here are several other notables about the schedule:
Lin-sane start: The Hawks open the regular-season at home against the Rockets on Friday, Nov. 2. That will be Jeremy Lin’s first game with Houston after leaving the Knicks as a free agent this month. The season ends in New York against the Knicks and the Hawks old head coach Mike Woodson. Five of the eight games in April to end the season are at home.
Welcome back: Williams will return to Atlanta on Friday, Jan. 11 with the Jazz, exactly six months after he was traded. Johnson returns on Wednesday, Jan. 16 as a member of the Nets after he was traded in the off-season. The Hawks next game is also against Johnson, a Jan. 18 matchup in Brooklyn. Johnson will play once more in Atlanta on March 9.
Champions: The Hawks host the defending NBA champion Heat on Nov. 9. They will travel to Oklahoma City to play the Thunder on Nov. 4, the second game of the season.
Longest stretches: The schedule includes a season-high five straight home games from Nov. 24 to Dec. 7. It includes a season-long road trip of six games between Feb. 24 and March 4. The schedule features 30 stretches of three games in four nights. It also includes four stretches of four games in five nights.
Take a break: The NBA All-Star weekend will be Feb. 14-17 in Houston. The Hawks will play 51 games before the break, 26 at home.
National TV: The Hawks have six games on national television. They are on ESPN three times (twice vs. the Knicks and once vs. the Heat) and on NBA TV three times (vs. the Magic, Bulls and Pacers).
Holiday play: The Timberwolves will be this year’s Martin Luther King Day opponent at Philips Arena. They do not play on Thanksgiving or Christmas day but will spend New Year’s Eve in Houston and New Year’s Day in New Orleans.
Here is the complete Hawks’ 2012-13 regular-season schedule:
NOVEMBER
Fri 2 HOUSTON 7:30
Sun 4 @Oklahoma City 7:00
Wed 7 INDIANA 7:30
Fri 9 MIAMI 7:30
Sun 11 @LA Clippers 3:30
Mon 12 @Portland 10:00
Wed 14 @Golden State 10:30
Fri 16 @Sacramento 10:00
Mon 19 ORLANDO (NBATV) 7:30
Wed 21 WASHINGTON 7:30
Fri 23 @Charlotte 7:00
Sat 24 LA CLIPPERS 7:00
Wed 28 CHARLOTTE 7:30
Fri 30 CLEVELAND 7:30
DECEMBER
Sun 3 @LA Lakers 9:30
Wed 5 DENVER 7:30
Fri 7 WASHINGTON 7:30
Sat 8 @Memphis 8:00
Mon 10 @Miami 7:30
Wed 12 @Orlando 7:00
Thu 13 CHARLOTTE 7:30
Sat 15 GOLDEN STATE 7:00
Tue 18 @Washington 7:00
Wed 19 OKLAHOMA CITY 7:30
Fri 21 @Philadelphia 7:00
Sat 22 CHICAGO 7:00
Wed 26 DETROIT 7:30
Fri 28 @Cleveland 7:30
Sat 29 INDIANA 7:00
Mon 31 @Houston 7:00
JANUARY
Tue 1 @New Orleans 8:00
Fri 4 @Detroit 7:30
Sat 5 BOSTON 7:00
Tue 8 @Minnesota 8:00
Wed 9 @Cleveland 7:00
Fri 11 UTAH 7:30
Sat 12 @Washington 7:00
Mon 14 @Chicago (NBATV) 8:00
Wed 16 BROOKLYN 7:30
Fri 18 @Brooklyn 7:30
Sat 19 SAN ANTONIO 7:00
Mon 21 (#) MINNESOTA 2:00
Wed 23 @Charlotte 7:00
Fri 25 BOSTON 7:30
Sun 27 @New York (ESPN) 6:30
Wed 30 TORONTO 7:30
FEBRUARY
Sat 2 CHICAGO 7:00
Tue 5 @Indiana 7:00
Wed 6 MEMPHIS 7:30
Fri 8 NEW ORLEANS 7:30
Mon 11 @Dallas 8:30
Wed 13 @Orlando 7:00
ALL-STAR BREAK – February 14-17 – HOUSTON, TX
Wed 20 MIAMI (ESPN) 8:00
Fri 22 SACRAMENTO 7:30
Sat 23 @Milwaukee 8:30
Mon 25 @Detroit 7:30
Wed 27 @Utah 9:00
MARCH
Fri 1 @Phoenix 9:00
Sun 3 @LA Lakers 9:30
Mon 4 @Denver 9:00
Wed 6 PHILADELPHIA 7:30
Fri 8 @Boston 7:30
Sat 9 BROOKLYN 7:00
Tue 12 @Miami 7:30
Wed 13 LA LAKERS 7:30
Fri 15 PHOENIX 7:30
Sun 17 @Brooklyn 8:00
Mon 18 DALLAS 7:30
Wed 20 MILWAUKEE 7:30
Fri 22 PORTLAND 7:30
Sun 24 @Milwaukee 3:00
Mon 25 @Indiana (NBATV) 7:00
Wed 27 @Toronto 7:00
Fri 29 @Boston 7:30
Sat 30 ORLANDO 7:00
APRIL
Mon 1 CLEVELAND 7:30
Wed 3 NEW YORK (ESPN) 7:00
Fri 5 PHILADELPHIA 7:30
Sat 6 @San Antonio 8:30
Wed 10 @Philadelphia 7:00
Fri 12 MILWAUKEE 7:30
Tue 16 TORONTO 7:30
Wed 17 @New York 8:00
- Chris Vivlamore
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steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:19 pm
Al and Teague could net Al Jefferson from Utah. Jefferson is a major upgrade over Tito Horford Jr.
He will at least play both ends of the court.
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:20 pm
Who is this Paul Snoop Graham guy?
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:22 pm
steven a smith,
Why in the Ham n Cheese would ATL trade Teague and All Star Horford for underachiever Al Jefferson?
Slimjr
July 27th, 2012
8:23 pm
Irony must have just got back from Vacation? lol!
I’m headed to Aruba soon! Cant wait to plunge into that three thousand ft. deep aqua blue/green water….Hehehe
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
8:27 pm
Teague couldnt move old man Bibby, hes been here 3 or 4 years and still is a joke. Helll, if Hinrich hadnt broke his leg Teague would still be on the bench. Even when He start the whole year he was less than average. He just another long term project who would be better off on a team that is 1 and done or not going anywhere. Teague is not going to get the hawks to the playoffs or beyond. We will go furhter with Harris than Teague.
Teague is a joke.
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:30 pm
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:22 pm
Al Jefferson will be an allstar for the next 4 years provided he leaves the Jazz by the trade deadline.
He is in the final year of his contract. (I wish Al Horford was in his final year here)
Al Horford is “Average” He is no Chris Bosh or Kevin Garnett, not even Ryan Anderson. Al does nothing well!
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:30 pm
Watching this 1993 Hawks team, I would take Dwayne Ferrell to play SF for Hawks right now…
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
8:30 pm
*further
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:33 pm
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
8:27 pm
Jeff Teague is not a joke. He just lacks confidence against elite players ie…Derek Rose. In time, he will blow by Derek Rose(take him off the dribble)consistently.
Melvin, do you watch the NBA?
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:33 pm
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
8:27 pm
Jeff Teague is not a joke. He just lacks confidence against elite players ie…Derek Rose. In time, he will blow by Derek Rose(take him off the dribble)consistently.
Melvin, do you watch the NBA?
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:34 pm
Nique is doing a lot of Heat Checking with no heat in this 1st half….
Dept. Of Unintended Irony
July 27th, 2012
8:35 pm
DUI doesn’t give a fu_k about typos. That would be a full time thankless job. However, when an intended insult is misspelled, typo or not, it’s ironic. DUI would lose his irony license if he passed up one of those. Why is DUI speaking in third person? DUI doesn’t know.
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:46 pm
steven a smith,
Jefferson is a one dimensional (offensive) player that doesn’t bring that one dimension every night. It’s a reason that you don’t seem his name mention in alot of trade rumors. He’s a guy that put up good stats on bad teams. He may have value this year b/c he has a huge expiring contract. No way you trade an All Star caliber player for him….
AG
July 27th, 2012
8:50 pm
Emeka Okafor 6′10″ 255
Nene
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:52 pm
Why did they broke up this 1994 Hawks team with Mookie, Nique, “Plastic Man” Augmon and Willis?
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:53 pm
Antoine Carr would run circles around Al Horford…Al Horford couldn’t carry Antoines Jock strap.
Where is “Buddy the Bum”? Come out and debate me like a man, Buddy the Bum.
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
8:54 pm
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
8:52 pm
Why did they broke up this 1994 Hawks team with Mookie, Nique, “Plastic Man” Augmon and Willis?
This the first thing that Melvin said all night that makes any sense!!!
Astro Joe
July 27th, 2012
8:54 pm
ESPN’s view of teams that have gone up and teams that have gone down. Obviously, we’re on the “step back” list:
5. Atlanta Hawks
I love Danny Ferry’s endgame. After taking over as the Hawks’ GM earlier this summer, he realized his new club’s ceiling was the second round of the playoffs. So Ferry immediately began dumping long-term contracts for expiring deals. The moves will position Atlanta to be a major player on next summer’s free-agent market — and perhaps beyond. Great plan.
But this season the Hawks will fall off a bit. Ferry’s purge cost them their best player, Joe Johnson, and Marvin Williams. The Hawks are still probably a playoff team, mind you, what with Josh Smith, Al Horford and the newly acquired Devin Harris. But they’re a bottom-rung playoff team at best. And that’s a plunge from the No. 4-5 seed territory they’re used to inhabiting.
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
8:56 pm
steven a smith , Teague may have confidence issues too. This aint grade school. And other than Tito, nobody’s daddy is out here protecting their sons. This is a man’s sport and aint no sissy going to get us to the next round.
Now, stop being politically correct with the lack confidence bull, Teague is a sissy. so is Al. But more than that teague is unintelligent as a point guard. The only thing Teague has going for him is he is young and fast. Dudes been here long enough. No more “Jerry’s” Kids.
This is a mans sport. Like Barkley said and every one in the NBA knows Hawks are too soft. Get ride of the softness that Deer in the Headlight Teague and I wannna play power forward Al bring to the table.
Al is very average and so will the hawks be if they keep players like him and teague around.
Bank on it.
AG
July 27th, 2012
8:57 pm
Nene 6′11 250
Al Horford 6′10″ 250
So please name 5 centers in the NBA who are better than Al at C?
Okafor 9.9 ppg 7.6 rebs (he also was the second pick in the draft) 30 years old
Nene 13.7 ppg 7.5 rbs 1 block 30 years old
Al 15.3 ppg 8.3 rbs 1.3 blocks in playoffs * 26 years old
AG
July 27th, 2012
8:59 pm
You must be on bath salts to think Antoine Carr was better than Al. Carr was a career bench player in Detroit and Atlanta.
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
9:02 pm
“Al Horford is “Average” He is no Chris Bosh or Kevin Garnett, not even Ryan Anderson. Al does nothing well!”
Really?
I think he watches the opposing players attach the rim very well. He actually provide escort service to the rim for the opposition
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:02 pm
My goodness, and some complain about Josh shot selection. You don’t want to see Nique in this game. We may have to take his HOF ring…LOL
Pimp My "
July 27th, 2012
9:03 pm
Al 15.3 ppg 8.3 rbs 1.3 blocks in playoffs * 26 years old
steven a smith
July 27th, 2012
9:05 pm
Maybe Danny would like to tank this seaon for better drafting position. We need an elite scorer…
As the roster currently stands, there is no “Go to scorer”
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:06 pm
Man, I forgot how bad Jon Koncak was… Hawks should sue him for impersonating a pro basketball player….
Pimp My Stats
July 27th, 2012
9:08 pm
* Al’s career average? 12pts 8 rbs
Al’s College average? 12pts 5 rbs
Al’s playoff’s average? 11 pts 7 rbs
All star? 5 pts 3 rbs.
The 1 year he had 15 pts was went Woodson ran special plays to try to “Get Al involved”
Al is a 12pt 8rb average sissy type scrub no matter how you try and pimp his stats. Night in and Night out year in and year out, this is what Al is worth.
12pts 8rbs
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:09 pm
1. Howard
2. Bynum
3. Cousins
4. Lopez
5. Horford
6. Bargnani
7. Nene
8. Chandler
9. M. Gasol
10. Noah/Hibbert
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
9:11 pm
I guess we will have to go to Jojsh and Harris until we trade Al and teague for a scorer to take the doubles off of Josh.
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:13 pm
Astro,
We don’t need ESPN view. It was clear that Ferry wanted to get financial flexibility which require him to move some quality players (Joe/Marvin) for guys that are less talented on expiring/shorter contracts. Yes, this team will take a step (or two) back this season in order to build a stronger team going forward.
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:15 pm
Pimp My Stats,
Please post Al Jefferson regular season and playoffs stats. No need to post his stats for the All Star game, we can guess his avg for those games…
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:17 pm
Horford
‘07-’08 10.1 ppg 9.7 rbs
‘08-’09 11.5 ppg 9.3 rbs
‘09-’10 14.2 ppg 9.9 rbs
‘10-’11 15.3 ppg 9.4 rbs
‘11-12 12.4 ppg 7. 0 rbs * 11 games
By the way, Hawks became a playoff team when Horford arrived! Outside of last year, this guy improved every season. That is why he was a All-Star.
If you want to hold on to that 12 pt 8 rb crap – again give me other centers in the league that give you more production.
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
9:17 pm
There’s not much difference between Al and Jon Kontract. The were both over paid. Al gets 1,000,000.000 per point he averages. So how is he different from Jon Kontract?
Astro Joe
July 27th, 2012
9:21 pm
Melvin, isn’t that what the ESPN article says, what you just said?
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:22 pm
Man, I left Jefferson off my list – but I would put him 5th and Al 6th. Yet, Al is the 3rd best center in the East,
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
9:24 pm
I would call going from 10pts 1 year to 4 years later 12 pts much to brag about. Actually thats embarrassing. I guess it acceptable if you want to have another *yawn* average year.
callmeout
July 27th, 2012
9:25 pm
*I wouldnt call going from 10pts 1 year to 4 years later 12 pts much to brag about.
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:25 pm
Please delete this guy on bath salts from this blog. Wow, can’t believe the Al envy of callmeout!
I read that article also, Kevin Arnovitz has a really good article on the ESPN Truehoop tab. I disagreed with Broussard’s article. We are going to be just fine – even if we tipped off today and made no more changes
Give me Mo Weed, every day.
July 27th, 2012
9:26 pm
“3rd best center in the East”,
Sautee
July 27th, 2012
9:27 pm
Good Evening T-s, I’m glad you are here. I want to discuss something you posted in the last blog.
Someone said Horford was a good deal at $12M / yr., and you said that for $12M he should produce 24 ppg, 15 rpg, and 5 blocks per game.
So here is my question: If 24, 15 and 5 is what you expect from a starting center being paid $12M, then why couldn’t Dwight do it at +$17M?
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:27 pm
Adam Keefe, my goodness. Another wasted draft pick….
Melvin
July 27th, 2012
9:29 pm
Astro,
Yes, that’s why I said we didn’t need ESPN view b/c we already knew what Ferry was doing or cooking (like the Rock would say)…
Give me Mo Weed, every day.
July 27th, 2012
9:30 pm
Hell, Ivan is better Than Al
Al and zaza are tied.
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:31 pm
Callmeout – why don’t you go on your playstation and create us a 7′1″ 275lb center who can average 50 ppg and 20 rebounds. – Oh, sorry, God did that already with Wilt.
The era of the dominate center is over guys – sorry. Guys like Al Jefferson, Nene, even Drew Gooden are the centers of today. The 7′ guys want to play PF and establish outside games (Garnett, Bosh, Dirk, Gasol – even Anthony Davis).
Bye bye Kareem, Robinson, Gilmore, Ewing, Carwright, Wilt…..those days are GONE!
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:33 pm
Okay – now you changed your name – I am just going to call you crackhead! Al = ZaZa lol!
Astro Joe
July 27th, 2012
9:34 pm
Sautee, I will never understand why you bother to engage. I guess boredom affects everyone.
Ra'mon
July 27th, 2012
9:35 pm
AG, you’re wrong, the Hawks became a playoff team after MIKE BIBBY arrived. They didn’t take the 8 seed until Bibby was acquired all star weekend. And the year before, the Hawks were only 3 games out of the 8th seed when Joe Johnson went down with a season ending injury. So please don’t act as if Al was the savior for the team. If that was the case, they wouldn’t have been able to secure the exact same seed without Al playing majority of the season.
larry largdycc
July 27th, 2012
9:37 pm
Sautee when I exaggerate to amplify a point you take the exaggeration, save it then come a year later and say,” look what you said, see the hypocrisy?” The only hypocrisy I see is how you twist s hit up and out of proportion.
Now, its been nice so far, Please dont start that trolling s hit because you cant win your point intelligently.
AG
July 27th, 2012
9:38 pm
Roy Marble, Doug Edwards, Priest Lauderdal, Ed Gray, Josh Childress, Marvin Williams, Shelden Williams….. and think you wanted to go KA-BOOM for draft picks….
Sautee
July 27th, 2012
9:38 pm
AJ, it’s kinda like Frodo believing to the end that Gollum was worth redemption. I think there’s a real person with real things to say behind the foolishness. I just wish he would be THAT person more often.