A new season. A much different result. The Atlanta Hawks are moving on in the playoffs, knocking out the team that beat them so badly a year ago.   Joe Johnson scored 23 points and came up with a huge offensive rebound, leading Atlanta past Orlando 84-81 in Game 6 Thursday night to finish off [...]

The Orlando Magic aren’t ready for their season to end just yet.   Facing their first opening round postseason exit since 2007, the Magic blew out the Atlanta Hawks 101-76 on Tuesday night. Jason Richardson scored 17 points and J.J. Redick added 14 off the bench to lead the Magic.   The win trims Atlanta’s [...]

Even on a tough night, the Atlanta Hawks had no doubts about putting the ball in Joe Johnson’s hands with the game on the line.   Good plan. Johnson hit four big free throws in the final 20 seconds and the Hawks finally put away the Orlando Magic, holding on for an 88-85 victory Sunday [...]

Sitting in Jamal Crawford’s locker after getting tossed from the game in the closing minutes, Zaza Pachulia was still miffed at his teammate for missing a free throw.   All was forgiven when Crawford hit an improbable 3-pointer Crawford banked in the long-range shot from the top of the key with 5.7 seconds left to [...]

Following Orlando’s humbling Game 1 loss to Atlanta, Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said that if his team cut down its turnovers and played better defense, he felt like everything would be fine in Game 2.   His team only fulfilled half of that equation Tuesday night, but it was still enough to earn a [...]