Found January 21, 2013 on Pro Sports Daily: Yardbarker Blogger Network
ATLANTA - The staff at Philips Arena rushed to the court with a stretcher after the first quarter to aid the Atlanta Hawks' dunking mascot Sky Hawk, who got a little too wild on one of his signature moves. He was able to exit under his own power. But that pretty much summed up the situation for the Hawks and the Minnesota Timberwolves, two banged up teams that each had to sign 10-day-contract players lately to have 10 healthy players on their rosters. "I guess whenever we play something's going to happen," the Timberwolves' Derrick Williams quipped as he sat at his locker with both knees and both ankles iced." There's going to be an injury somehow." But it was the Hawks' healthy star Al Horford and former and current Hawk Jannero Pargo, who signed a 10-day contract before the game, who led the Hawks as they erased an 18-point halftime deficit to scratch out a 104-96 victory over Minnesota Monday afternoon. Horford led the Hawks (23-18) w...
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