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My condolences to you. Unless Dominique Wilkins is walking thru that door, I could probably make a million dollars by the end of this NBA season by simply fading your team. They simply do not look professional to me. It's basketball. You pass the ball. You dribble the ball. Is it that hard? They have no plays that will work? 2 on 1, 3 on 1 fast breaks, they can't make a layup? What I see, is no effort except for maybe Hinrich. Can you trade him to Orlando, and who else from Duke in the NBA can we send there to make it an all Duke alum squad ... then they hire coach K. But seriously, the Hawks are gorunded. JJ gets his 18 mil, that's that sad part. And that's the story
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joe johnson is awful, i cant believe they gave him the max after that awful playoff performance against the magic. the hawks are screwed for a long long timeComment -
Hes even worse tonight against PHX awful D. 1-7 LMFAO. Worthless POS.Comment -
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At least Josh Smith earned his check tonight, and then some. For 18 MILLION DOLLARS, Joe Johnson owes Atlanta a lot. So why can't he get a rebound in over 36 minutes on the court, or score more than 6 points (2 for 10), or do something?Comment -
If there ever was a class move by a player to opt out of an All-Star Game & 3pt Contest, it would be Joe Johnson doing so this year. Claim you have a sore back, knee or something and stay home 18 mil man. How you can be in that contest, when say Ray Allen who is shooting 3's at over 48% this year is not, is pathetic. How Johnson, who has played astonishingly awful lately, is going to the All-Star Weekend is a travesty. Bow out JJ. You don't deserve to show your face there and you know it. Step down so as not to make a complete ass out of yourself and the event. And perhaps practice more, workout more, and study more with the extra time, as no one who is paid what you're paid is desparately in need of improving their game more than you. Your play has been a disgrace to your team, your fans and yourself. How you were chosen is a joke. Last 4 games ...
<TABLE id=yui_3_4_1_1_1329503145833_41 border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY id=yui_3_4_1_1_1329503145833_40><TR class=yspsctbg align=center><TD class=ysptblhdr height=18 colSpan=6 align=left></TD><TD class=yspwhitebg rowSpan=200 width=1 noWrap><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD><TD class=ysptblhdr colSpan=4>FG</TD><TD class=yspwhitebg rowSpan=200 width=1 noWrap><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD><TD class=ysptblhdr colSpan=4>3PT</TD><TD class=yspwhitebg rowSpan=200 width=1 noWrap><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD><TD class=ysptblhdr colSpan=4>FT</TD><TD class=yspwhitebg rowSpan=200 width=1 noWrap><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD><TD class=ysptblhdr colSpan=4>Rebounds</TD><TD class=yspwhitebg rowSpan=200 width=1 noWrap><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD><TD class=ysptblhdr colSpan=7>Misc</TD></TR><TR id=yui_3_4_1_1_1329503145833_39 class=ysptblthbody1 align=right><TD id=yui_3_4_1_1_1329503145833_38 class=yspdetailttl height=18 align=left>Date</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl height=18 align=left>Opponent</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl height=18 align=left>Score</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl height=18>GS</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl height=18>Min</TD><TD></TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>M</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>A</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Pct</TD><TD></TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>M</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>A</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Pct</TD><TD></TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>M</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>A</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Pct</TD><TD></TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Off</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Def</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Tot</TD><TD></TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Ast</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>TO</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Stl</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Blk</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>PF</TD><TD class=yspdetailttl>Pts</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow2 height=16 align=right><TD class=yspscores align=left>Feb 15</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>@ PHO</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>W 101-99</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>36:13</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>10</TD><TD class=yspscores>20.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>5</TD><TD class=yspscores>20.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>100.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>3</TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>6</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 height=16 align=right><TD class=yspscores align=left>Feb 14</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>@ LAL</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>L 78-86</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>36:44</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>7</TD><TD class=yspscores>17</TD><TD class=yspscores>41.2</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>8</TD><TD class=yspscores>12.5</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>N/A</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>3</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>5</TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>15</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow2 height=16 align=right><TD class=yspscores align=left>Feb 12</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>MIA</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>L 87-107</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>29:36</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>5</TD><TD class=yspscores>13</TD><TD class=yspscores>38.5</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>4</TD><TD class=yspscores>0.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>100.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>5</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>12</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 height=16 align=right><TD class=yspscores align=left>Feb 10</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>@ ORL</TD><TD class=yspscores align=left>W 89-87</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>40:12</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>6</TD><TD class=yspscores>16</TD><TD class=yspscores>37.5</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>3</TD><TD class=yspscores>33.3</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>100.0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores></TD><TD class=yspscores>5</TD><TD class=yspscores>1</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>0</TD><TD class=yspscores>2</TD><TD class=yspscores>14</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
In 3 of last 4 games and 106 playing minutes, got ZERO rebounds! ZERO! Who can play over 100 minutes of full-court basketball and not get one stinking rebound, unles you have no talent, no desire and no effort? 3 for 20 from 3 in the last 4 games. 3 for 20! By contrast Allen grabbed 11 boards in his last 4 games and went 4 for 15 from 3.
Petition to have Joe Johnson opt out of the All Star events. No one is less deserving to be an All-Star, and he has absolutley no business being one. Spare us this sickening selection, won't you?Comment -
For the record and season, Johnson is 54 out of 154 from 3, while Allen is 57 out of 118. Thus, Allen has made more 3's in a whopping 36 less shots. Yet somehow, Joe Johnson is selected and Allen is not,
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Just another day playing 26 minutes of basket ball and another couple HUNDRED GRAND for JJ, who in return does the donut for made 3's, and leads every player in the game with a horrific -21. Pay him another 18 million why don't you, obviously he's worth more
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The only thing I've seen lately that is almost as bad as the play of Joe Johnson for 18 MILLION DOLLARS, is watching Shaq play with Chuck's feet on TNT.
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Joe Johnson is the most overpaid player in this league by far.Comment -
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Please tell me he's not showing his face at the All-Star weekend. What NBA fan wants to see Joe Johnson ... just your below average Joe. EIGHTEEN MILLION DOLLARS, a complete waste ...
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Report: Atlanta Hawks Offered Joe Johnson and Josh Smith for Dwight Howard
Offered, or begged
Orlando is not too bright, but ain't that dumb.
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Joe Johnson to sign a ridiculous deal with the Atlanta Hawks
By Kelly Dwyer
It's never a good sign when, a full week before a player is set to put pen to paper to ink his most recent contract, that a good portion of the NBA community regards that contract as the worst it has ever seen.
Not the worst trade, nor the worst draft selection. And we're not talking about considering Joe Johnson's(notes) new contract with the Atlanta Hawks (as first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski) as the worst contract we've ever seen a few years into the deal, or a few years after it expires in retrospect.
We're feeling this way, right now. On July 1, seven days before he even gets to sign the deal. Worst contract, ever.
It's that bad. Six years, and $119 million dollars for a player regarded as a second option at best on a great team. At best. Johnson will be 29 years of age to start this contract, 35 to end it, so Atlanta will get his one peak season (unless last year's run of over 21 points and a combined 9.5 rebounds/assists was the best we've seen), and then the downfall.
At about $20 million a year.
Bear in mind that Johnson achieved those stats by absolutely dominating the ball for the Hawks. Just owning it, for large stretches, forcing either a potential score or a potential assist to be added to his ledger just about every other time down court. All while playing huge minutes, 38 per game in fact; which was actually the lowest mark we've seen from Johnson since his second year in the league.
[Photos: See Joe Johnson's moves on the court]
It's just an astonishing deal, on so many levels. A good part of me thinks that — because his stats are so inflated by his ball dominance and big minutes — that Johnson will be worth about half of his yearly salary next year (next year!), so imagine how far he'll taper off by 2016? Johnson isn't the most athletic player we've seen, he isn't tricky enough with the ball to get to the line much (a shocking 3.5 free-throw attempts per game, criminal for someone who has the ball so much, and for so long), and this isn't someone who will age well.
On top of that, didn't we watch him age quite considerably in the playoffs last season? Johnson averaged 11.8 points per game in the second round, shooting a terrifying 29.5 percent along the way. He seemed nonplussed as ever as his Hawks fell out of the second round again, and for the second time in five years, he's chosen big offseason money over a chance at a championship.
The Hawks? They're the big boys, here. They're supposed to be smarter than this, and in spite of all the talk about how this team had no choice but to stick with the status quo and see what happened? Bollocks.
This man could be nearly half of your salary cap in a few years. We have no idea how the new collective bargaining agreement will shake out, but even under the ridiculous payroll runs of the last six or seven years, handing nearly $120 million to a 29-year-old who has yet to do anything more meaningful than dribble a lot and shoot a lot and look real tired in January? It boggles the mind.
Yes, you're backed into a corner, and you can't afford to let your best offensive player go without any proper sign-and-trade compensation. I understand that, but signing above what you originally hoped to pay only goes so far. There has to be a cutoff price, at some point, and paying Joe Johnson around $20 million in 2015-16 has to be that point. Hell, paying Joe Johnson $20 million in 2011-12 has to be that point.
This is just an absurd contract that, even if the Hawks ownership is banking on selling the team midway through Johnson's deal as has been rumored, cannot be justified or argued-for in any meaningful way.
There's just no way around it. Joe is a nice player who might get to shoot himself into yet another All-Star berth next season. If he's lucky, the year after that, even. Give it to him. Let the Hawks roll to the second round again, earning the ownership a few more gate receipts as they take yet another first-round series to seven games.
Doesn't matter. As it stands, this is the worst free-agent contract I have ever seen. Roll over Eddy Curry(notes), tell Jim McIlvaine the news.Comment -
She wrote it, not me, and she couldn't have written it any better. Who is this chump's agent anyway, Jerry McGuire? And who is the Hawk's brass that couldn't get him to sign on for 6 years for 100 mil, or 110, or 115, or 118? I'd love to meet these people, as I have so much to learn.Comment -
The look of a man who gets a couple hundred grand for being on a basketball court for a half hour ...
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The more you find out about this guy, the more you wish you hadn't.Comment -
This is one of the more unusual ways we’ve seen NBA news break. Joe Johnson, the Atlanta Hawks free agent who was arguably the fourth-best player available this offseason, is going to re-sign with his current team. Though suspected for days, the official confirmation was still a surprise – because it happened in a blog entry on the Huffington Post by Johnson’s agent, Arn Tellem.Comment -
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Joe Johnson Has An Absurdly Massive Truck
by Ben Axelrod | 1:41 pm, July 5th, 2011
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A year ago, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carlos Boozer were all free agents. But, if you’ll recall, it was Atlanta Hawks guard Joe Johnson who walked away as the highest paid player that summer.
Now we know what Johnson is spending some of that coin on. Photos have popped up of the Hawks swingman’s tricked out Ford F-650 Super Truck XUV.
Johnson apparently purchased the massive truck back in 2008, but it’s safe to say that the six-year $119 million contract extension that he signed last summer is helping make that hit to the wallet a little more tolerable.
Asked recently about the price of his car while at a basketball camp at the University of Arkansas, Johnson provided a “no comment.” But estimates show that the car (plus its features) likely cost well over $200k.
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Must be nice to be able to buy that monster for appearing on a basketball court for 30 minutes (if that). Easy to see why so many end up like Iverson.Comment -
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Dear Mr. Johnson, Sorry you got injured. Everything I write here is about you as an overpaid, slacking NBA player, and not as a human being. No ill will is wished on you as a human. I just wish you'd play your ass off every night in appreciation for what you are paid, instead of lollygagging like you're playing for free at the YMCA.
With that being said, on behalf of the entire NBA Nation, thank you for not showing your face during the All-Star weekend, as you did not deserve to be there in the least. Hope you feel better, play better, and realize it's ok to sweat on the basketball court and dive for a loose ball.
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im glad some1 else has seen this. jj is awful
after his team got smoked by orlando and he was nowhere to be found in that series,
they decide hes worth a max contract, hahaComment -
Whatever you say about him, you can not take away he has some sick waves in his hair.
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joe johnson's agent is the GOATComment -
At least he didn't bring guns into the locker room...Comment -
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this picture is priceless to me for some reason, especially in the context of this threadComment -
EPIC topic imo
Johson's agent deserves a statue for bargaining the deal.Comment -
guy is 3/15 in tonights playoff game
0-9 from 3 point land
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