The Atlanta Hawks and the San Antonio Spurs held very different trade deadlines, with San Antonio acting as sellers and the Hawks instead holding serve and making no moves this week. But in tonight’s game, it was hard to tell the Hawks were the team pushing for playoff positioning.
The Spurs came into Friday night’s game at 20-35 having traded away Derrick White and Thaddeus Young just a day prior, and had not processed the incoming players for this contest. This meant that they were playing a road game with a less than full roster against a revitalized Hawks team.