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Game 5 round 1 Celtics vs Hawks 2008 Playoffs
April 30, 2008 BOSTON -- Takedowns and menacing gestures. Double technicals and flagrant fouls. And the Boston Celtics are heading to Atlanta to try to deliver the knockout punch. Paul Pierce scored a playoff-high 22 points, and Ray Allen turned back the final Hawks' charge with three 3-pointers in a three-minute span of the third quarter on Wednesday night to help Boston beat Atlanta 110-85 and take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 series. The first five games have all gone to the home team, with Game 6 in Atlanta on Friday night. "We still haven't won a road game, guys," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "We have to do it again. We have to do it on the road now. We have to go in there and play like tonight." Kevin Garnett scored 20 and Allen had 19 to put the Celtics within a victory of advancing to the second round. Boston got a huge lift from its bench in the second quarter, when Sam Cassell scored nine points and Leon Powe had seven with five rebounds while holding Al Horford to a pair of baskets. "This is my time of the year," said Cassell, who was signed in March as a veteran backup for second-year point guard Rajon Rondo. "I love playoff basketball. I understand what it means. I understand what it takes to be successful during this time of year." Joe Johnson, who erupted for 35 points in Game 4 -- 20 of them in the fourth quarter -- scored 21, and Horford had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta. Mike Bibby continued to struggle in Boston, scoring six while recording one assist for the third consecutive road game. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played in Boston on Sunday, an advantage the Celtics earned with their NBA-best 66-16 record in the regular season. Boston would like to avoid that and get a break from a physical series that saw another flagrant foul -- when Horford took down Garnett late in the first half -- and another double-technical -- when Garnett and Johnson were jawing in the third. Josh Smith and Hawks coach Mike Woodson also picked up technicals in the aftermath's of Allen's takedown on Horford with three minutes left. "I won't say we lost our composure," Johnson said. "It's tough when it feels like things aren't going your way. Temper tantrums tend to fly, and that's part of it." The top overall seed wasn't expected to have this much trouble in the first round with an Atlanta team that went 37-45 to grab the final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. But the Hawks answered two losses in Boston with a pair of victories at home, tying the series at 2 on Monday night. Game 4 featured pushing and shoving that wasn't settled until the league announced on Tuesday that there would be no more fines or suspensions. Pierce had already been fined $25,000 by the NBA for a "menacing gesture" -- allegedly gang-related -- during Game 3. Did it affect Pierce, who scored 18 on 5-for-14 shooting hours after learning of the fine? "It can't help," Rivers said. Before Game 5, Pierce issued a statement denying it was a gang sign. Then he went out and put his hands to a more useful purpose. After picking up his fourth foul early in the fourth quarter, Pierce held out a dismissive arm toward Rivers as if to say: "Relax." "I won't foul out," he mouthed. But Rivers took him out, anyway. And they didn't need him. Not anymore. "Pierce got it started for them early," Smith said. "Lately he hasn't been getting himself involved in the offense early on, and that's probably been the cause of him not doing well."
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Ballers 3 Soulja Boy
Dwight Howard, LeBron James, and Al Horford doing the Soulja Boy Dance
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Atlanta Hawks - The Beginning (2008)
ill do one soon
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sick cards version 2
al thornton al horford kevin durant auots
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Game 3 round 1 Celtics vs Hawks 2008 Playoffs
Give Josh Smith a perfect 10 in his personal dunking contest. And give the Atlanta Hawks some credit: The team that was supposed to get swept by big, bad Boston in the opening round of the playoffs pulled off a win that was nine years in the making. The high-flying Smith scored 27 points and the Hawks earned their first playoff victory since 1999, beating the Celtics 102-93 Saturday night to cut Boston's lead in the series to 2-1. "My heart was racing, I was so excited," said Smith, who certainly did his part by dunking five times on the Celtics. "I wanted to give the city of Atlanta something to cheer about." That he did. After getting blown out twice in Boston, Smith and the Hawks seemed to take out all their frustrations on a 66-win Boston team that finished 29 games ahead of eighth-seeded Atlanta during the regular season. When the buzzer sounded, streamers fell from the ceiling of Philips Arena as if the home team had just won a championship. The Hawks, who went 37-45 during the regular season, are still huge underdogs. But for one night at least, Smith -- a former NBA dunk champion -- had the rim rockin' and the sellout crowd of 19,725 on its feet. "It gets everybody going," Smith said of his above-the-hoop theatrics. "It gets the crowd going. It gets my teammates going. That's what we needed: easy points." Even Boston coach Doc Rivers, who played for the Hawks during their most successful era in the 1980s, was impressed. "It was back like the old days, when Dominique [Wilkins] played," Rivers said. "I was there, too, sitting on the bench watching him." With everyone thinking sweep, the Hawks made sure the series will at least get back to Boston for a fifth game. They'll try to even it up in Game 4 Monday night at Philips Arena. "We're not satisfied," said Joe Johnson, who added 23 points for Atlanta. "We have another one to get. We know it's going to be very electric Monday, and we're looking forward to it." The Celtics know they gave Atlanta a glimmer of hope. They want to snuff it out as quickly as possible. "We went away from what we've been doing all year," Rajon Rondo said. "I feel this is a must-win game for us Monday." The Hawks took control in the third quarter, outscoring the Celtics 28-18 and limiting Boston to 5-of-21 shooting. Atlanta went on to its first playoff win since May 16, 1999, a Game 5 clincher over the Detroit Pistons. Those Hawks were swept by New York in the next round, then launched an ill-advised rebuilding plan that was supposed to create a younger, faster roster. Instead, the team totally fell out of playoff contention with moves such as trading for malcontent Isaiah Rider. The nadir came four years ago, when the Hawks went 13-69 after deciding to totally rebuild again. Smith, who was drafted right out of high school, saved his best dunk for last. After Boston threw it away, Johnson took off down the right side of the court and passed off to Smith breaking down the other wing. He took off a good 10 feet from the basket and slammed it through over Ray Allen. With the crowd still buzzing, Smith pulled up behind the arc and hit a 3-pointer that gave the Hawks a 94-79 lead with just under 7 minutes left. He backpedaled all the way down the court, then slapped hands with the playoff-starved Atlanta fans on the baseline. "From the start," Boston's Kendrick Perkins said, "you could just tell they wanted it more." Mike Bibby -- who riled the Boston faithful with his comments about "fair-weather" fans -- bounced back from two dismal games by doling out eight assists. Showing much better ball movement and a willingness to run with the Celtics, the Hawks improved from 10 assists in Game 2 to 28 on Saturday. Rookie Al Horford was a force on the inside. He had 17 points, 14 rebounds, six assists and showed he wasn't afraid of the mighty Celtics, jawing with Paul Pierce in the final minute. Kevin Garnett led Boston with 32 points, but the NBA's youngest playoff team had him kneeling over, looking totally gassed, by the end of the game. The Celtics had manhandled Atlanta all year, beating the Hawks three times during the regular season -- none of the games was closer than 10 points -- then routing them twice in Boston by an average margin of 21 points to start this series. Horford, who knows a thing or two about winning from two straight national championships at Florida, tried to fire up his teammates by showing them a video of Muhammad Ali's stunning win over George Foreman in 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle." "That was something special," Horford said. "I felt like we could do something special, too."
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NBA Ballers Chosen One Trailer 2 High Quality
Watch the new trailer from NBA Ballersand see Dwight Howard + Al Horford pimping it out and balling like they PRO GUARDS breaking ankles
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Atlanta Hawks Ballers
elie seckbach the embedded nba correspondent talks to the atlanta hawks players.
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Atlanta Hawks 2008 Mix by GCMoss
Atlanta Hawks 2008
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Celtics-Hawks 92-97 Game4 PO08[Allen 21pts vs Johnson 35pts]
ATLANTA, April 28, 2008 (AP) -- The Boston Celtics were supposed to be resting up by now, getting ready for the next round of the playoffs. Instead, they're headed back to Beantown all tied up with the lowly Atlanta Hawks, who are starting to believe - really believe - they can shock the world. Joe Johnson scored 35 points, 20 in the fourth quarter, and Josh Smith added 28 points and seven blocks for Atlanta, which surprised the Celtics again 97-92 on Monday night to even the best-of-seven series at two games apiece. "We took care of our home court,' Johnson said. "Now we've got to go up to Boston and somehow steal one.' Game 5 is Wednesday night in Boston. No one could have seen that coming. The Hawks had the worst record (37-45) of any playoff team, and they certainly played like it in the first two games at Boston, losing them by an average of 21 points. The Celtics, who won an NBA-leading 66 games during the regular season, came South looking to wrap it up. Now, it's a best-of-three. "We've got to find ourselves real quick,' Boston's Sam Cassell said. "We've got to find our team identity, our team chemistry, we've got to find all that real quick.' The credit for this Atlanta stunner goes largely to Johnson, who took control in the final quarter. After Smith's jumper put the Hawks ahead to stay 81-79, Johnson scored nine straight points to keep the Celtics on the ropes. The knockout came when Paul Pierce drove to the hoop and left it short, then tumbled over a cameraman alongside the basket. When the Boston star finally climbed back to his feet, he had a look of disbelief - which pretty much sums up the way the Celtics are feeling about this series. Smith went to the other end and made two free throws with 26 seconds remaining for 93-87 lead. Johnson - appropriately enough - finished off the Celtics by making two more foul shots with 14 seconds left. "Basketball is a strange thing,' Cassell said. "Strange things happen.' Johnson, who shot just 36 percent in the first three games, finally stepped up to claim his rightful place as Atlanta's go-to player. With the Celtics trapping on the pick-and-roll, he went to coach Mike Woodson with a suggestion. "I asked him to space the floor and let me go,' Johnson said. "It worked.' Added Cassell, "He's their franchise ballplayer, and he showed people why.' After the blowouts in Boston, the Hawks turned feisty on their home court. Rookie Al Horford taunted Pierce after putting the Celtics away in Game 3, prompting the Boston forward to flash a menacing gesture that drew a $25,000 fine from the NBA shortly before Monday's game. In the second quarter of Game 4, things really got testy. Kevin Garnett threw an elbow at Zaza Pachulia while going for a loose ball. The rugged Pachulia got right in Garnett's face, going forehead to forehead with the Boston star. "We all know he's a great player,' Pachulia said. "He's done a lot of good things for the league. He's a future Hall of Famer. But it doesn't matter when we're on the court.' The officials stepped in quickly and Woodson charged onto the court to pull his players away. No punches were thrown and no one was ejected, though the officials did call offsetting technical fouls - two on each team - after looking at a replay. "I don't take anything from anybody,' Pachulia said. "The message was, 'We're right here. Even if we lose, it's not going to be easy.'' Ray Allen led Boston with 21 points, and Garnett added 20. But, after playing with so much confidence during the regular season, the Celtics must fight off the inevitable worries about a monumental playoff flop. "Give the Hawks credit,' Boston coach Doc Rivers said. "This series hasn't started yet, because no one has won a road game. It's a tough loss for us, but we get a chance to take it back to Boston and see what we can do.' Smith set an Atlanta playoff record with seven blocks, the last a key swat on Garnett after he backed down in the lane, looking for the easy shot, with just over 3 minutes left. "It's time to shock the world,' the public address announcer screamed to the sellout crowd of 20,016. Boston started like it was going to be a blowout.
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Tough Love
Student project produced by Bo Hyun Bang, Al Horford, and Jason Swanson. Kyla takes advantage of the kindness of family, until circumstances change.
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Celtics-Hawks 93-102 Game 3 PO 08[KG 32pts vs Smith 27pts]
ATLANTA, April 26, 2008 (AP) -- Give Josh Smith a perfect 10 in his personal dunking contest. And give the Atlanta Hawks some credit: The team that was supposed to get swept by big, bad Boston in the opening round of the playoffs pulled off a win that was nine years in the making. The high-flying Smith scored 27 points and the Hawks earned their first playoff victory since 1999, beating the Celtics 102-93 Saturday night to cut Boston's lead in the series to 2-1. "My heart was racing, I was so excited," said Smith, who certainly did his part by dunking five times on the Celtics. "I wanted to give the city of Atlanta something to cheer about." That he did. After getting blown out twice in Boston, Smith and the Hawks seemed to take out all their frustrations on a 66-win Boston team that finished 29 games ahead of eighth-seeded Atlanta during the regular season. When the buzzer sounded, streamers fell from the ceiling of Philips Arena as if the home team had just won a championship. The Hawks, who went 37-45 during the regular season, are still huge underdogs. But for one night at least, Smith -- a former NBA dunk champion -- had the rim rockin' and the sellout crowd of 19,725 on its feet. "It gets everybody going," Smith said of his above-the-hoop theatrics. "It gets the crowd going. It gets my teammates going. That's what we needed: easy points." Even Boston coach Doc Rivers, who played for the Hawks during their most successful era in the 1980s, was impressed. "It was back like the old days, when Dominique [Wilkins] played," Rivers said. "I was there, too, sitting on the bench watching him." With everyone thinking sweep, the Hawks made sure the series will at least get back to Boston for a fifth game. They'll try to even it up in Game 4 Monday night at Philips Arena. "We're not satisfied," said Joe Johnson, who added 23 points for Atlanta. "We have another one to get. We know it's going to be very electric Monday, and we're looking forward to it." The Celtics know they gave Atlanta a glimmer of hope. They want to snuff it out as quickly as possible. "We went away from what we've been doing all year," Rajon Rondo said. "I feel this is a must-win game for us Monday." The Hawks took control in the third quarter, outscoring the Celtics 28-18 and limiting Boston to 5-of-21 shooting. Atlanta went on to its first playoff win since May 16, 1999, a Game 5 clincher over the Detroit Pistons. Those Hawks were swept by New York in the next round, then launched an ill-advised rebuilding plan that was supposed to create a younger, faster roster. Instead, the team totally fell out of playoff contention with moves such as trading for malcontent Isaiah Rider. The nadir came four years ago, when the Hawks went 13-69 after deciding to totally rebuild again. Smith, who was drafted right out of high school, saved his best dunk for last. After Boston threw it away, Johnson took off down the right side of the court and passed off to Smith breaking down the other wing. He took off a good 10 feet from the basket and slammed it through over Ray Allen. With the crowd still buzzing, Smith pulled up behind the arc and hit a 3-pointer that gave the Hawks a 94-79 lead with just under 7 minutes left. He backpedaled all the way down the court, then slapped hands with the playoff-starved Atlanta fans on the baseline. "From the start," Boston's Kendrick Perkins said, "you could just tell they wanted it more." Mike Bibby -- who riled the Boston faithful with his comments about "fair-weather" fans -- bounced back from two dismal games by doling out eight assists. Showing much better ball movement and a willingness to run with the Celtics, the Hawks improved from 10 assists in Game 2 to 28 on Saturday. Rookie Al Horford was a force on the inside. He had 17 points, 14 rebounds, six assists and showed he wasn't afraid of the mighty Celtics, jawing with Paul Pierce in the final minute. Kevin Garnett led Boston with 32 points, but the NBA's youngest playoff team had him kneeling over, looking totally gassed, by the end of the game. The Celtics had manhandled Atlanta all year, beating the Hawks three times during the regular season -- none of the games was closer than 10 points -- then routing them twice in Boston by an average margin of 21 points to start this series. Horford, who knows a thing or two about winning from two straight national championships at Florida, tried to fire up his teammates by showing them a video of Muhammad Ali's stunning win over George Foreman in 1974's "Rumble in the Jungle." "That was something special," Horford said. "I felt like we could do something special, too." He even showed a bit of contempt for the guys in green after hitting a clinching jumper with 22 seconds remaining. He got right in Pierce's face, prompting the Boston star to walk toward the Atlanta bench, jawing and flashing hand gestures before he was yanked back.
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Joe Johnson's 35pts vs Celtics Game 4 Playoffs 2008
ATLANTA, April 28, 2008 (AP) -- The Boston Celtics were supposed to be resting up by now, getting ready for the next round of the playoffs. Instead, they're headed back to Beantown all tied up with the lowly Atlanta Hawks, who are starting to believe - really believe - they can shock the world. Joe Johnson scored 35 points, 20 in the fourth quarter, and Josh Smith added 28 points and seven blocks for Atlanta, which surprised the Celtics again 97-92 on Monday night to even the best-of-seven series at two games apiece. "We took care of our home court,' Johnson said. "Now we've got to go up to Boston and somehow steal one.' Game 5 is Wednesday night in Boston. No one could have seen that coming. The Hawks had the worst record (37-45) of any playoff team, and they certainly played like it in the first two games at Boston, losing them by an average of 21 points. The Celtics, who won an NBA-leading 66 games during the regular season, came South looking to wrap it up. Now, it's a best-of-three. "We've got to find ourselves real quick,' Boston's Sam Cassell said. "We've got to find our team identity, our team chemistry, we've got to find all that real quick.' The credit for this Atlanta stunner goes largely to Johnson, who took control in the final quarter. After Smith's jumper put the Hawks ahead to stay 81-79, Johnson scored nine straight points to keep the Celtics on the ropes. The knockout came when Paul Pierce drove to the hoop and left it short, then tumbled over a cameraman alongside the basket. When the Boston star finally climbed back to his feet, he had a look of disbelief - which pretty much sums up the way the Celtics are feeling about this series. Smith went to the other end and made two free throws with 26 seconds remaining for 93-87 lead. Johnson - appropriately enough - finished off the Celtics by making two more foul shots with 14 seconds left. "Basketball is a strange thing,' Cassell said. "Strange things happen.' Johnson, who shot just 36 percent in the first three games, finally stepped up to claim his rightful place as Atlanta's go-to player. With the Celtics trapping on the pick-and-roll, he went to coach Mike Woodson with a suggestion. "I asked him to space the floor and let me go,' Johnson said. "It worked.' Added Cassell, "He's their franchise ballplayer, and he showed people why.' After the blowouts in Boston, the Hawks turned feisty on their home court. Rookie Al Horford taunted Pierce after putting the Celtics away in Game 3, prompting the Boston forward to flash a menacing gesture that drew a $25,000 fine from the NBA shortly before Monday's game. In the second quarter of Game 4, things really got testy. Kevin Garnett threw an elbow at Zaza Pachulia while going for a loose ball. The rugged Pachulia got right in Garnett's face, going forehead to forehead with the Boston star. "We all know he's a great player,' Pachulia said. "He's done a lot of good things for the league. He's a future Hall of Famer. But it doesn't matter when we're on the court.' The officials stepped in quickly and Woodson charged onto the court to pull his players away. No punches were thrown and no one was ejected, though the officials did call offsetting technical fouls - two on each team - after looking at a replay. "I don't take anything from anybody,' Pachulia said. "The message was, 'We're right here. Even if we lose, it's not going to be easy.'' Ray Allen led Boston with 21 points, and Garnett added 20. But, after playing with so much confidence during the regular season, the Celtics must fight off the inevitable worries about a monumental playoff flop. "Give the Hawks credit,' Boston coach Doc Rivers said. "This series hasn't started yet, because no one has won a road game. It's a tough loss for us, but we get a chance to take it back to Boston and see what we can do.' Smith set an Atlanta playoff record with seven blocks, the last a key swat on Garnett after he backed down in the lane, looking for the easy shot, with just over 3 minutes left. "It's time to shock the world,' the public address announcer screamed to the sellout crowd of 20,016. Boston started like it was going to be a blowout.
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Al Horford's Top 10 Plays of the 07/08 NBA Regular Season
The top 10 plays of the season from Rookie of the Year candidate Al Horford.
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Paul Pierce's 22pts vs Hawks Game 5 Playoffs 2008
BOSTON, April 30, 2008 (AP) -- Takedowns and menacing gestures. Double technicals and flagrant fouls. And the Boston Celtics are heading to Atlanta to try to deliver the knockout punch. Paul Pierce scored a playoff-high 22 points, and Ray Allen turned back the final Hawks' charge with three 3-pointers in a three-minute span of the third quarter on Wednesday night to help Boston beat Atlanta 110-85 and take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. The first five games have all gone to the home team, with Game 6 in Atlanta on Friday night. "We still haven't won a road game, guys," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "We have to do it again. We have to do it on the road now. We have to go in there and play like tonight." Kevin Garnett scored 20 and Allen had 19 to put the Celtics within a victory of advancing to the second round. Boston got a huge lift from its bench in the second quarter, when Sam Cassell scored nine points and Leon Powe had seven with five rebounds while holding Al Horford to a pair of baskets. "This is my time of the year," said Cassell, who was signed in March as a veteran backup for second-year point guard Rajon Rondo. "I love playoff basketball. I understand what it means. I understand what it takes to be successful during this time of year." Joe Johnson, who erupted for 35 points in Game 4 -- 20 of them in the fourth quarter -- scored 21, and Horford had 14 points and 10 rebounds for Atlanta. Mike Bibby continued to struggle in Boston, scoring six while recording one assist for the third straight road game. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played in Boston on Sunday, an advantage the Celtics earned with their NBA-best 66-16 record in the regular season. Boston would like to avoid that and get a break from a physical series that saw another flagrant foul -- when Horford took down Garnett late in the first half -- and another double-technical -- when Garnett and Johnson were jawing in the third. Josh Smith and Hawks coach Mike Woodson also picked up technicals in the aftermath's of Allen's takedown on Horford with three minutes left. "I won't say we lost our composure," Johnson said. "It's tough when it feels like things aren't going your way. Temper tantrums tend to fly, and that's part of it." The top overall seed wasn't expected to have this much trouble in the first round with an Atlanta team that went 37-45 to grab the final playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. But the Hawks answered two losses in Boston with a pair of victories at home, tying the series 2-2 on Monday night. Game 4 featured pushing and shoving that wasn't settled until the league announced on Tuesday that there would be no more fines or suspensions. Pierce had already been fined $25,000 by the NBA for a "menacing gesture" -- allegedly gang-related -- during Game 3. Did it affect Pierce, who scored 18 on 5-for-14 shooting hours after learning of the fine? "It can't help," Rivers said. Before Wednesday's game, Pierce issued a statement denying it was a gang sign. Then he went out and put his hands to a more useful purpose. After picking up his fourth foul early in the fourth quarter, Pierce held out a dismissive arm toward Rivers as if to say: "Relax." "I won't foul out," he mouthed. But Rivers took him out, anyway. And they didn't need him. Not anymore. "Pierce got it started for them early," Smith said. "Lately he hasn't been getting himself involved in the offense early on, and that's probably been the cause of him not doing well." The Celtics took a 58-43 halftime lead, holding Atlanta without a field goal for more than seven minutes before Horford's putback dunk with 1:05 left in the second quarter. Pierce drove for a layup to start the second half, then Atlanta scored the next 11 points to pull within 60-54. But Garnett made a turnaround hook shot, then he passed off to Allen to set up a 3-pointer. Pierce drove for another basket and, after Horford's dunk slowed things down temporarily, Kendrick Perkins answered with a follow dunk that made it 69-56. After a timeout, Garnett blocked Josh Childress and then Allen hit a 3. Allen threw the ball away and helped the Hawks cut the deficit to 12 points, but then he hit another 3-pointer to give Boston a 75-60 lead.
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Al Horford's Top 10 Plays of the 07/08 NBA Regular Season
The top 10 plays of the season from Rookie of the Year candidate Al Horford. Made by NBA TV.
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mailday and contest update!!!
Hey everyone I have been so busy this last week I was unable to run the contest like I said I was. I will run the contest either tonight or tomorrow night so keep a look out. If you want in the contest you still have some time so go check out my contest videos make sure you are subscribed and leave a comment saying you want in and I will add you to the list. Thanks :-)
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AL HORFORD EN EL POLI
Al Horford, Tito Horford y Andy Williams en el polideportivo de La Romana
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Early Offense
Al Horford Early Post
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