All-Star game

An Atlanta Hawks championship will be hard to come by without more star power the likes of which we saw over All-Star weekend.

The Suns are expected to be without Chris Paul for the next 6-8 weeks after he was diagnosed with an avulsion fracture in his thumb. In reality, they’ve played nearly 71 percent of their schedule and the roster is virtually the same that led them to the Eastern Conference Finals last season. Collins finished 20th in the player vote while Capela was 50th. There isn’t some magic formula for determining this that requires you to be a wizard of advanced analytics. That is both incredibly fortunate that he’s held up as he has and also playing with fire. The Hawks are set to start the “second half” of their schedule with the same roster that led them to a 28-30 record.