NBA Playoffs | Feisty Hawks tie up series against Celtics

 
Forget about a Boston sweep. The Hawks are headed back to Beantown all tied up with the mighty Celtics. Joe Johnson scored 35 points ... [link]

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Joe Johnson, Joe Johnson, Joe Johnson

The title says it all. The player of the game stunned the Celtics, with the Hawks winning 97-92. Johnson was great. Period. He scored 35 points, 20 in the 4th quarter. We have a new clutch player stepping up on to the NBA scene. The Celtics yielded a 10 point lead beginning the 4th quarter, losing by 5, thanks to Joe Johnson. Suddenly, the Hawks-Celtics series is knotted at 2-2.
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Hawks Grab Second Home Upset, Even Series

The Mulrenin-Couch Combo Celtics-Hawks Series Blog The Boston Celtics had the best record in the NBA in the regular season, but that doesn't matter to the Atlanta Hawks , who have won Games 3 and 4 at home to pull even in their first-round series.  ...
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Hawks stun Celtics 97-92 to even series (AP)

Forget about a Boston sweep. The Hawks are headed back to Beantown all tied up with the mighty Celtics. Joe Johnson scored 35 points -- 20 in the fourth quarter -- and Josh Smith added 28 points and seven blocks for Atlanta, which surprised the ...
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Celtic Slide

If there was one thing we learned from last year’s playoffs, its that there’s no such thing as a sure thing. Just ask Dirk Nowitzki. His Dallas Mavericks, with their incredible, league-best 67-15 record, top billing in the Western Conference and 6th best record of all time, met the lowly Golden State Warriors, an upstart team who hadn’t made the playoffs in over a decade. It was supposed to be...
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Celtic Killer

Joe Johnson single-handledly beat the Celtics tonight. He torched the C’s defense for 20 points in the fourth quarter (35 total) as the Hawks overcame a 10 pt deficit and won 97-92. After all the taunting and excessive celebration following ...
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