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by Lang Whitaker I spent all day Monday and Tuesday in Vegas on a secret mission. Once I receive clearance to talk about it, I will. In the meantime, stuff’s backing up here, so I wanted to try and get to a lot of stuff today… • First, reader mail, like back in the day. Reader Jake F. writes… Lang, long time Slam reader and Hawks fan from Chattanooga here. I’m ... [link]

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Friday Bullets
Published 7/25/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... A discussion of who is to blame for Josh Childress' departure. It's hard to blame Rick Sund. ("No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!") However, the one exception is that Childress said time and again that he was not impressed with the pace of the negotiations. The way Hawks hand handled things this summer -- lowish offer, then waiting to see what Childress and his agents came up with -- made him feel unloved. Lesson learned: Next time you ought to make that guy feel loved, huh? If Sund had been on Childress' doorstep with his final offer at the ...

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