Lou Williams leads Lakers to season sweep of Hawks, 109-94

Or that Walton praised Brown’s efforts as a wing defender and for averaging 3.16 points on 46.6 percent shooting in 8.3 minutes during exhibition play. He’s also now a sports freelance writer for Sports Uncut.

Kent Bazemore scored 21 points and Dwight Howard added 19 points and nine rebounds amid constant boos for the Hawks, who have lost five of six after a 9-2 start to the season. “It’s easier to buy in and do that for one another when you see the success for one another, and that’s what’s so great about having this group together, struggling first and then seeing the success, because we know where we come from and we know we don’t want to revert back”. The road team is 28-12 ATS in the last 40 meetings.

They’re collecting almost 30 percent of their own misses with Howard on the floor, a number that would rank second in the league among teams, and their defensive rebounding has maintained even when Dwight leaves the floor – another testament to the culture he’s quickly helped instill. This is the kind of bad publicity the Hawks did not want Howard to bring to Atlanta, and they made that clear when he signed his three-year, $70.5 million contract during the offseason. Russell is known as an extraordinary performer for the Lakers’ team.

The Atlanta Hawks needs to be consistent on both sides of the floor if they’re to have a shot of beating the best team in the league. The Lakers sealed the deal in the fourth quarter and went on to win the game. The fan wanted to get under Howard’s skin without fear of being smacked around, and he got just that.

“I don’t have to be pain-free, I’m just trying to figure out a way around it”, Randle said.

“I like to keep it pretty positive”. When the schedule gets grueling, that was for me the biggest challenge (as a player).

This evening, things will have to be different if the Pelicans are to nab a home victory.

For as much as the Hawks were primed for a change after their postseason failures of the past two years, the same could be said for Howard.

It’s been an exciting start to the 2016-17 National Basketball Association season for the Los Angeles Lakers. Lakers fans were clearly in his head. So far, Howard has done so, and is enjoying the opportunity to play in his hometown.

Randle completed a pre-game workout on Sunday, but he did not finish all of Saturday’s practice after tightening up. “But it was a chapter in my life that I had to go through”. The win against Atlanta offered the definitive answer, and the commitment to the plan shouldn’t anger fans who suffered through former coach Byron Scott and others refusing to let young guys hit the hardwood. “We just kind of carried the momentum through from that point on”.