ligaments in knee are not fun to injure, especially if you get bad swelling. Same with the cartilage. Carroll isn't the type to play something up either.
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Photo: Scott Cunningham/NBAE via Getty Images When you think "organ," you think old people and churches. Unless you're an Atlanta Hawks fan, in which case you think of Sir Foster, the man who uses the world's least cool instrument to play Philips Arena's hottest beats. With Sir Foster playing the pipes—pumping out everything from "Trap Queen" to "Pony" to (gulp) "Let It Go" to whatever else is tweeted at him during games—the A-town crowd helped its team to an Eastern Conference Finals showdown with Lebron's Cavs. So we called up the hottest man in stadium music—and artist behind the newly released album "Future World Record Holder"#‐because Game Two is tonight, and because we really wanted to know: how in the hell can somebody play an organ with so much damn swag?! GQ: First thing I want to hear about is how you got this job. You got it off Craigslist, right? Sir Foster: I was sitting on my computer one day bored, and I was on Craigslist, because I didn't have any other website to go to. I think I had been to everything. I went on and I saw that the Atlanta Hawks were looking for an organ player and I was like, You know what? I don't have anything else to do today. I may as well apply for it. So I just applied. They called me in for an interview, I answered some questions, and then they let me play a preseason game and then from there, I got the job. What did you play at that game? I played "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga. That was the first song I ever played. And I remember one of the guys came on the headset and was like, "Yo! I really like this guy! Y'all should keep him. I like this guy." I felt good about that. Leading up to the games do you have any sort of inclination of what you're going to play that night? I might know one or two songs I'm going to play that night. But for the most part, I get there and pretty much change everything. It's eighty-five percent off-the-cuff. You get requests all game long on Twitter. What's the song you get requested the most? Right now at this moment I would say Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" is far and away—far and away—the most requested song. Yesterday I got a request for a Pastor Troy song called "This Tha City." They requested that super early in the day and I played that last night. Wait, so did you learn it yesterday? I learned it yesterday, yeah. They requested it during the day, you learned it, and you played it that night? The best example of that ever is the website SBNation started tweeting me at nine in the morning to play "Pony." And I mean they had videos and everything, like, "Yo, Foster, you need to play 'Pony.'" So I learned "Pony" that day and played it that night. Can you just hear it and play it? I typically just hear it and try to learn it off the record. I can learn things off sheet music but it doesn't have the same feel when you doing it off the sheet music. A lot of times it's missing some little small details that matter to me. So you're like Nick Cannon in "Drumline." Yeah! It's kind of like that. Is there anything you won't play? I wouldn't say anything is off limits. If we're playing another team from another city, I wouldn't play any artists from that city that night. We are playing Cleveland in the playoffs right now, so I will not play Bone Thugs. Although I love Bone Thugs. They're amazing. But I will not be playing them this series. Let's talk about how you've played "Let It Go." Did you learn that because it was a request, or because you just wanted to know that? Honestly, I felt like the universe was giving me signs. I went to a family function and all the little kids were singing "Let It Go." And this is before I even saw Frozen. I didn't realize how big of a deal Frozenwas, first of all. It was huge... So then I watched the movie and I actually really like that song. I was like, "Yo, she is singing the heck out of it. Yo!" So from that point on I was like, you know what? I'm gonna play that at a game. Weirdest song you've been requested? People request stuff that I've never heard. Like people have requested classical songs before. "Can you play Movement No. 9?" Like what is that?! No! That won't be getting played anytime soon? No. That will not be in the playlist. Okay, so you're playing the organ for the bedroom. What are Sir Foster's Top Three Baby-Making Songs? The Weeknd's "Earned It." That would be number three. That is a really great song. Now, let me just say for the record, I do not make love to my own music. I. Do. Not. But since you are asking me what songs are appropriate for that time, I'm going to put Sir Foster number two with "Fireplace." And number one bedroom song that is guaranteed for me to make it happen? "Two Weeks" by FKA Twigs. I think that is like Record of the Year. You learn that song yet? Oh yeah. I played that at the game and nobody knew what it was. Nobody tweeted me. Nobody nothing. They just sat there. Meanwhile, you play "Let It Go," and everybody's probably like, Yeah! Yeah! [Laughs] Yeah! When was the moment when you realized, okay, this is something I could actually do and make a living doing it. It just kinda happened. I looked up and I was like, "Yo, I'm making a living doing this." [Laughs] I really did. I was like, Wait a minute. I think that all the time. Like, I'm doing it. You say you always have one in the chamber. What's in the chamber for tomorrow? Got anything special planned for Game 2? That's the thing. I can never tell you what's comin. You gotta watch. I can never tell you. Can't give us a taste? Not at all. Gotta watch.
January was nothing but a tease. Heck, we even beat Cleveland in March when things were going down. What a regression, but so ATL.
Shooting is terrible, defense is terrible, rebounding is terrible, coaching is terrible. Ugh this team has fallen.
Felt strongly we'd lose to Lebron but thought we'd fight a bit. Would've been ok with losing the series but a sweep would really taint the season for me. Spoiler Incorporated "taint" into the post for our guest Marcus
Eh. He plays good defense and still requires a good bit of attention when we have the ball. He's still a net positive out there and is certainly better than Kent Bazemore or whoever else we're going to trot out there.
I hate this scramble D we are playing on Lebron that is letting their bums get open 3s. I mean if you had told me in February that we'd play Cle in the ECF against a hobbled Kyrie and no Love and here we are
MAYBE YA SHOULDNTA TAKEN UP A ROLE AS A CLEVELAND TROLL BUD I HOPE YOU USE THIS TIME TO RECONSIDER YOUR LIFE CHOICES PAL BRO
Shumpert and Thomson play hard, respect them, Mozgov could be a villain in Taken 4 which goes straight to on demand, so I dig him. Jr Smith can fuck off
Why is there some random guy in here who has an unhealthy excessive hatred for the hawks. Convenient he speaks up after the hawks are down 0-2. Sounds like a real pussy.