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The Atlanta Hawks and John Collins could have started the season better. They could have announced that they had a newly minted contract extension which would keep Collins with the Hawks for another four years, at the tidy sum of $90 million.
Alas, it was not to be and so rumors circled around the Hawks and their fourth-year star out of Wake Forest. The rumors reached maximum noise at the trade deadline, particularly when the Hawks said what they would consider as a minimum return for Collins.