Tag: Pero Antic
And, Poof, We’re Gone: Game 2 of the Hawks-Cavs Eastern Conference Finals
So there you have it, folks: We lay down on the tracks in game two. Need we dissect the corpse that is the Atlanta Hawks basketball team right now? Let's save ourselves the teeth-gnashing and the grief.
Pero Antić, the Big Man from Macedonia
When Pero Antić steps onto the court on October 30 for the Hawks’ season opener, he’ll become the first Macedonian to play in the NBA. It’s an overdue feat, both for Antić and hoops-mad Macedonia, but sooner or later a big man from this tiny Balkan country was destined to make the leap. Macedonian, after all, comes from the ancient Greek word Makedones—“the tall ones.”