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Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague is listed as day-to-day with an injured ankle that he suffered during the third quarter of Atlanta’s 107-101 overtime win over the Pistons on Friday night. Teague took part in practice on Saturday but will likely be a game-time decision for the game against the Hornets on Sunday.

“He was out here getting some shots up,” Drew said. “He’s moving around on it pretty good. They are still treating it. It will be a day-to-day decision.”

Teague suffered the injury when he landed on the foot of the Pistons’ Greg Monroe on a drive to the basket. He limped to the bench and later to the locker room where he had the ankle taped. He briefly returned to the bench before finally giving Larry Drew the nod that he couldn’t return because the ankle had started to stiffen up.

Kirk Hinrich subbed in for Teague and played the remainder of the game in only his second game back from off season shoulder surgery. If Teague is unable to go on Sunday then Hinrich and Jannero Pargo are likely to man the point for the Hawks.

For more on Jeff Teague’s injury and the Atlanta Hawks be sure to check out Peachtree Hoops. For more news and analysis on the NBA head on over to SB Nation’s NBA Basketball page.

As Joe Johnson goes, so go the Atlanta Hawks lately.

He’ll look to continue his hot stretch as visiting Atlanta seeks to end a
three-game losing streak to the New Orleans Hornets on Sunday night.

Johnson’s recent performances have helped the Hawks overcome a potentially
disastrous injury to big man Al Horford, who has been out since tearing a
pectoral muscle Jan. 11.

Atlanta (14-6) is 7-2 since Horford went down, with Johnson averaging 25.7
points in the victories and scoring no fewer than 23 in any of them. He’s
combined for 18 points in the two defeats.

Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime and hit a tying 3-pointer
with 1.9 seconds left in regulation as the Hawks defeated Detroit 107-101 in
overtime Friday.

Atlanta improved to 10-1 when Johnson scores at least 20. He said the tying
shot at the end of the fourth quarter was tougher than it may have seemed.

“I jammed two fingers on my left hand,” said Johnson, who went 1 for 9 from
the field in the first half. “I couldn’t really get my feeling back. I thought
we were going to call a timeout, but nobody called a timeout, so I just did what
I could to try to get a shot off.”

Marvin Williams added 22 points for the Hawks, who trailed by as much as 12
in the second half and by six with less than a minute left.

“To me it’s just an unbelievable win,” coach Larry Drew said. “It was a
gutsy performance. We were literally dead in the water.”

It’s likely the same feeling Drew had in the most recent meeting with the
Hornets.

Johnson was held to nine points and Atlanta was embarrassed on their home
floor, 100-59 last Jan. 21. It marked the fewest points the Hawks have scored
since moving from St. Louis to Atlanta in 1968.

That New Orleans team looks vastly different from the one that will take the
court Sunday, though it proved Friday it can be just as dangerous.

The Hornets (4-15) ended a nine-game losing streak by routing Orlando 93-67
with the help of Carl Landry’s team-high 17 points off the bench.

Coach Monty Williams was proud of the effort from a rebuilding team which
lost Chris Paul and David West in the offseason.

“Any time you hold team like that to 67 points, you get excited about the
fight and character of our team,” Williams said. “I hope our fans understand
this transition hasn’t been easy.

“We have a ways to go … but when I’m in that locker room, in those huddles
and the guys are supporting one another, out there fighting for each other, the
way they played tonight, it makes the prospects for the future of our
organization look bright.”

Building for the future has become a priority, and the organization told
Chris Kaman – who came over from the Los Angeles Clippers in the Paul trade – it
is seeking trades for the veteran center.

Kaman has been inactive for the past two games and will no longer suit up
for the Hornets, who plan to give youngsters Jason Smith, Gustavo Ayon and
Al-Farouq Aminu more playing time.

“We had a conversation with Chris and expressed that the Hornets are going
to go in a different direction,” general manager Dell Demps said. “Chris has
been the ultimate professional during this process and we thank him for the way
he has handled the situation.”

New Orleans has held Atlanta to less than 90 points in winning each of the
last three meetings.

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CBSSports.com wire reports
Jan. 27, 2012

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Joe Johnson stole the ball near his own basket and brought it up the court a bit gingerly. Something was bothering him, although it wasn’t clear what until after the game.

“I jammed these two fingers on my left hand,” the Atlanta star said. “I couldn’t really get my feeling back. I thought we were going to call a timeout, but nobody called a timeout, so I just did what I could to try to get a shot off.”

Johnson’s 3-pointer over Rodney Stuckey with 1.9 seconds left sent the game to overtime, and the Hawks eventually pulled away from the Detroit Pistons for a 107-101 victory Friday night. Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime.

Detroit led 87-81 after Austin Daye’s baseline shot with 39.9 seconds left, but Marvin Williams cut the lead in half with a 3-pointer with 33.5 seconds to play. Johnson then stole a pass inside. His jammed fingers were on his non-shooting hand, and as the clock ran down, he kept the ball and made a tough 3-pointer to tie it.

The Hawks started the overtime with a 12-2 run, including 3-pointers by Williams and Josh Smith.

Detroit coach Lawrence Frank said he’d wanted his team to foul before Johnson’s tying shot.

“We kicked that game. We should have won the game, but we didn’t make winning plays down the stretch,” Frank said. “I think we were defeated as soon as that shot went in, and the game went to overtime. We have to be mentally tougher than that.”

Greg Monroe scored 22 points for the Pistons and Brandon Knight added 20.

Johnson was 1 of 9 from the field in the first half, but he recovered in a big way, surpassing 14,000 points for his career and continuing a strong stretch for him since the Hawks lost Al Horford earlier this month to a torn pectoral muscle.

The Hawks are 10-1 when Johnson scores at least 20 points.

“To me it’s just an unbelievable win,” Atlanta coach Larry Drew said. “It was a gutsy performance. We were literally dead in the water.”

Atlanta rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit and tied it in the fourth quarter, but Jason Maxiell’s three-point play after an offensive rebound put the Pistons ahead 73-70 and started what looked like a decisive 8-0 run.

“We just wanted to kind of hang in there,” Drew said. “We hit a bad stretch in that fourth period, but I still felt that if we got some good looks, got some guys to knock a couple of 3s down, we’ll still be right there.”

The Pistons couldn’t hold on, starting a stretch of seven games in nine days on a sour note. Detroit had a chance to win it even after Johnson’s big 3-pointer in the final seconds of the fourth, but Knight’s last-second shot didn’t come close.

“It was frustrating when that shot went in, because we had controlled the whole game, but you have to forget about that and play the next five minutes,” Knight said. “You can’t give in just because the game went to OT.”

Maxiell led all scorers with 12 points in the first half. Detroit led 46-35 after Monroe’s three-point play with 0.5 seconds left in the second quarter. Neither team was shooting all that well, but the Hawks turned the ball over 11 times in the half.

Detroit was playing without Tayshaun Prince (family matter) and Ben Gordon (sore shoulder).

Atlanta guard Jeff Teague left in the second half with a left ankle injury.

Williams finished with 22 points and eight rebounds for the Hawks, and Smith had 19 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.

Notes

• Daye, who scored a career-high 28 points for the Pistons in a loss to Miami on Wednesday night, finished with 12 on Friday.
• Johnson has 14,010 career points.

Joe Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime, including
a tying 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left in regulation, and the
Atlanta Hawks stunned the Detroit Pistons 107-101 in overtime
Friday night.

Atlanta forced overtime with a pair of late 3-pointers. Marvin
Williams made one with 33.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter to
cut the lead to three, then Johnson stole a pass inside and brought
the ball up the court. Johnson looked like as if might have hurt
himself, but he kept the ball and sank a tough 3-pointer over
Rodney Stuckey to tie it.

The Hawks started the extra session with a 12-2 run, including
3-pointers by Williams and Josh Smith.

Greg Monroe scored 22 points for the Pistons and Brandon Knight
added 20.

Johnson was 1 of 9 from the field in the first half, but he
recovered in a big way, surpassing 14,000 points for his career and
continuing a strong stretch for him since the Hawks lost Al Horford
earlier this month to a torn pectoral muscle.

The Hawks are now 10-1 when Johnson scores at least 20
points.

Atlanta rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to tie it in
the fourth quarter, but Jason Maxiell’s three-point play after an
offensive rebound put the Pistons ahead 73-70 and started what
looked like a decisive 8-0 run.

But the Pistons couldn’t hold on, starting a stretch of seven
games in nine days on a sour note. Detroit had a chance to win it
even after Johnson’s big 3-pointer in the final seconds of the
fourth, but Knight’s last-second shot didn’t come close.

Maxiell led all scorers with 12 points in the first half.
Detroit led 46-35 after Monroe’s three-point play with 0.5 seconds
left in the second quarter. Neither team was shooting all that
well, but the Hawks turned the ball over 11 times in the half.

Detroit was playing without Tayshaun Prince (family reason) and
Ben Gordon (sore shoulder).

Atlanta guard Jeff Teague left in the second half with a left
ankle injury.

Williams finished with 22 points and eight rebounds for the
Hawks, and Smith had 19 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.

NOTES: Austin Daye, who scored a career-high 28 points for the
Pistons in a loss to Miami on Wednesday night, finished with 12 on
Friday. His baseline shot with 39.9 seconds left gave Detroit an
87-81 lead, but the Hawks scored the last six points of regulation
… Johnson has 14,010 points.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – Joe Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime, including a tying 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds left in regulation, and the Atlanta Hawks stunned the Detroit Pistons 107-101 in overtime Friday night.

Atlanta forced overtime with a pair of late 3-pointers. Marvin Williams made one with 33.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter to cut the lead to three, then Johnson stole a pass inside and brought the ball up the court. Johnson looked like as if might have hurt himself, but he kept the ball and sank a tough 3-pointer over Rodney Stuckey to tie it.

The Hawks started the extra session with a 12-2 run, including 3-pointers by Williams and Josh Smith.

Greg Monroe scored 22 points for the Pistons and Brandon Knight added 20.

Johnson was 1 of 9 from the field in the first half, but he recovered in a big way, surpassing 14,000 points for his career and continuing a strong stretch for him since the Hawks lost Al Horford earlier this month to a torn pectoral muscle.

The Hawks are now 10-1 when Johnson scores at least 20 points.

Atlanta rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to tie it in the fourth quarter, but Jason Maxiell’s three-point play after an offensive rebound put the Pistons ahead 73-70 and started what looked like a decisive 8-0 run.

But the Pistons couldn’t hold on, starting a stretch of seven games in nine days on a sour note. Detroit had a chance to win it even after Johnson’s big 3-pointer in the final seconds of the fourth, but Knight’s last-second shot didn’t come close.

Maxiell led all scorers with 12 points in the first half. Detroit led 46-35 after Monroe’s three-point play with 0.5 seconds left in the second quarter. Neither team was shooting all that well, but the Hawks turned the ball over 11 times in the half.

Detroit was playing without Tayshaun Prince (family reason) and Ben Gordon (sore shoulder).

Atlanta guard Jeff Teague left in the second half with a left ankle injury.

Williams finished with 22 points and eight rebounds for the Hawks, and Smith had 19 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists.

AUBURN HILLS — The foul the Detroit Pistons could have given in the final seconds of the fourth quarter went unwhistled Friday night, and whether through miscommunication or inability to jump out on Joe Johnson’s long bomb to force overtime, it cost them a game.

Johnson’s 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds remaining in regulation forced overtime, and the Atlanta Hawks cruised from there in a 107-101 victory at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

The Pistons had a foul to give after the Hawks’ final fourth-quarter possession began with 12.9 seconds left but never used it.

“We had a foul to give,” Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said. “Obviously, we wanted to foul. We didn’t foul. But look, we kicked the game, no doubt about it. It’s a game we obviously should’ve won. We didn’t.

“It’s very, very disappointing. It’s yet another good performance that gets wasted, not in the win column.”

Pistons guard Brandon Knight said the foul to give was discussed earlier, during a timeout with 33.5 seconds left.

“I know we talked about it a little bit, but I think we just decided to play it straight up, and he ended up hitting a good shot,” Knight said.

From the time the Pistons took an 8-7 lead until Johnson’s bomb, the Hawks never led and tied the game only twice.

But Rodney Stuckey’s turnover led to Johnson’s 3-pointer in his face moments later, tying the game 87-87 at the end of regulation. A wild shot by Knight on the Pistons’ final possession of regulation was off.

“You have an All-Star like Joe Johnson, that happens,” Pistons forward Jason Maxiell said.

Overtime started with a Zaza Pachulia dunk for the Hawks and a Maxiell missed layup — a mini-epidemic for the Pistons — and it only got worse for Detroit.

Pachulia had another dunk in overtime, followed by 3-pointers from Marvin Williams and Josh Smith, as the Hawks blew open a 99-89 lead.

Frank said the Pistons “were defeated once the game went into overtime” on Johnson’s shot.

“As a team,” Knight said, “I think it was a little bit demoralizing when he hit that shot. But that’s something that we can’t be doing in the future. We’ve got to keep plugging.”

With 39.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Pistons looked like they might be headed for victory when Austin Daye’s jumper gave them an 85-79 lead. But for the second consecutive game against a quality opponent, the Pistons couldn’t protect a late lead, just as happened in Wednesday’s loss to the Miami Heat.

Williams responded to Daye’s jumper with a 27-foot 3-pointer with 33.5 seconds left, the play that seemed to rankle Frank more than any.

“We hit the bucket with 39 seconds to go; they’re walking the ball up the court,” Frank said, emphasizing the last few words disdainfully, “and we don’t get matched up, and we give Marvin Williams the 3.”

The loss in the first game of a five-game, six-day stretch spoiled big efforts by Maxiell, who had 19 points and eight rebounds — including 12 in the second quarter, when he surpassed his previous season-high of 11 points — and Greg Monroe, who overcame some early struggles to finish around the basket to finish with 22 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons. Knight had 20 points, five rebounds and eight assists.

The Pistons jumped to a 46-35 halftime lead by scoring 15 points off of 13 Atlanta turnovers, which is what the Hawks averaged for a game entering Saturday, second-fewest in the NBA. The Hawks finished with 19 turnovers.

The Hawks rallied, largely behind Johnson, who had 28 of his 30 points after halftime. But after Atlanta drew even at 70-70, the Pistons scored eight consecutive points and had the game in their hands with less than 8 minutes left.

“The moment of truth, the last 6 minutes of the game, that’s when we have to make winning plays,” Frank said, “and we left them out there again.”

DETROIT –

The Atlanta hawks visit the Detroit Pistons Friday night at the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The Hawks (13-6) just lost by 22 points on Wednesday in San Antonio. The Pistons (4-15) dropped a close one Wednesday night to the Miami Heat, 101-98.

It was one of the better offensive showings for the Pistons who are the only NBA team not to score 100 points in a game this season.

Turnovers proved to be the difference Wednesday as LeBron James made his final six free throws to push the Heat past the Pistons.

This is the first of four meetings this season between Detroit and Atlanta.

With the absence of Ben Gordon, Austin Daye has stepped up for Detroit. Daye scored a career-best 28 points against the Heat.

Gordon has missed the past three games with a shoulder injury.

Tip off is at 7:30 p.m.