3/9/2023 0 Comments Trae young shush![]() ![]() “It’s what you bring out every day as a person,” said Bogdan Bogdanovic, who got into the crowd shushing after a 3-pointer at MSG last playoffs. “Swag is just, it’s a good way to say ‘I’m fun,’” Young said. “What is your energy level or what is your mood like during your activity, and if you are carrying yourself in such a demeanor that gives off confidence or an accentuated state of whatever it is, when you show that you’re confident, that’s swag.” “How confident are you in what you’re doing at that time,” Collins said. ![]() “In another word, it’s confidence,” Collins said. In discussing the next evening’s opponent, McMillan, his voice oozing with swagger, declared: “they can shoot but they don’t fucking guard. Or it can be an attitude.Ī day before a recent Hawks game, as practice came to an end, McMillan summoned his players to midcourt. It can be finger wagging, chest thumping, or jack jawing in the middle of a game. “Swag” can refer to a wardrobe, especially if one pushes the limits of style with gaudy jewelry, targeted holes in jeans, or even a T-shirt of one’s self dunking on the head of another man. Three years ago, when the Hawks refurbished what is now State Farm Arena, they included a barbershop owned by the rapper Killer Mike that was literally called Killer Mike’s SWAG Shop. It is also short for “swagger,” but there is a little more soul and culture attached to the meaning. ![]() ![]() There was a time when “swag” meant the free, promotional items handed out at business conferences, parties, and sporting events. “I ask them to bring their swag to the floor,” Nate McMillan said. It’s about Trae Young not only taking a bow at Madison Square Garden after burying a 30-footer that buried the Knicks in Game 5, but him telling me “man, I planned it a couple days before.” It’s Clint Capela telling reporters ahead of Game 5 that the Hawks were coming to New York to send the Knicks “on vacation.” It’s a team of young, brash, never-won-nothin’, crowd shushin’, shimmyin’, shakin’, performance artists who believe playing with “swag” is partially how they shocked the world and went from the bottom of the East to Game 6 of the conference finals in the span of a few months. Rather, this is about the audacity for Collins, in the middle of a playoff series, to not only have the T-shirt printed, but to pack it for a Game 7 on the road that could have gone either way. This story is not about a tit-for-tat between two supremely confident NBA players, or even about a simmering feud shared by two teams who will be together again Saturday in Philadelphia, where the team’s typically hostile fans just might remember Collins’ shirt from June. The Athletic’s Hawks beat writer, Chris Kirschner, covered in detail the years-long back and forth between Embiid and Collins, the Sixers and Hawks, that extends far beyond Atlanta’s upset victory in the playoffs and includes a thunderous slam by Embiid over Collins in Atlanta that Collins referenced above. Philly improved to 36-22, and Atlanta dropped to 17-42.(Nathaniel S. Capela has yet to make his debut with Atlanta since being traded from the Houston Rockets earlier this month. The Hawks, meanwhile, were without guard DeAndre' Bembry (abdomen) and center Clint Capela (heel). This isn’t a day-to-day injury Simmons will miss time. Adrian Wojnarowski Sources: Sixers star Ben Simmons is still undergoing treatment and evaluation on his back and there’s expected to be a course of action decided upon soon. ![]()
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