The Atlanta Hawks were in a bit of a pickle this offseason. Did they want to improve and work their way into playoff contention, or was falling back and starting a rebuilding process the ultimate goal?
Now that we're well into the summer...we still don't have an answer. Everything that Atlanta has done has been a fairly solid move, however.
Signing Paul Millsap to a two-year, $19 million deal was a great signing that added another high-quality player to the frontcourt and ultimately made Josh Smith expendable. It may, in fact, be the most cost-effective move of the summer, excluding a certain Russian forward.
DeMarre Carroll, Kyle Korver and Jeff Teague were good additions/re-signings as well. The latest signing, a reported one-year deal for Elton Brand courtesy of HoopsHype.com, will help provide even more depth.
But the end result is that Atlanta remains a mid-level team, stuck in basketball purgatory. The Hawks will be competing for a seventh consecutive playoff berth, but there are no realistic championship hopes here. It's been another offseason of treading water, but at least the moves made were good ones.
Grade: B+
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