It makes a lot of sense for us to go after Horford.
The Hawks were a 38 win playoff team in 2014. Horford was limited to 29 games and missed the playoffs.
The Hawks were a 60 win playoff team in 2015... Horford played 76 games and the team made the ECF with him.
Horford was the difference between a borderline .500 also-ran ... and the best record in the Eastern Conference.
Boston was a 38 win playoff team last year. We're already on pace to be a 47 win team this year. Adding Horford makes us pretty dangerous in the playoffs.
Problem is that he could bail this Summer. Taking him on is a risk. But since Horford is one half of Danny's "Durant/Horford" summer pipedream, I guess adding him now and going hard at a playoff run gets us a little closer to accomplishing that dream.
I think last year was a special regular season for ATL.
Horford coming back helped them, but they had DeMare in a contract year and Korver putting up historical shooting numbers.
With Carroll gone and Korver coming back down to earth they are barely over .500 ball- and Horford is still there.
I think a guy we should target that's been mentioned a bit is Paul Millsap aka the Lebron killer.
I wouldn't mind Horford either but don't wanna pay anything for a guy that walks in 4 months time.
The biggest problem with Millsap is that Orlando will probably overpay for him if needed.
I think Orlando will eventually trade Tobias Harris for Millsap, perhaps with Fournier thrown in.