Al Harrington
Al Harrington
Albert "Al" Harringtonis an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sydney Kings of the National Basketball League. Selected with 25th overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft, Harrington played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic and Washington Wizards. He also spent a short stint with the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth17 February 1980
CityOrange, NJ
We came out a little flat and we shouldn't have had that type of lapse. We had a great shoot-around, so there was no reason for us to come out and play the way we did.
When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice cold, so that worked in our favor.
The No. 1 thing is their tradition and their history. And then you look at the steps they're taking to get back to that level. Right now, I would love to be in the situation they're in, where they're fighting for a playoff spot and have a very good chance of making it.
It was a hard-fought game, but we gave them too much cushion and we couldn't really recover. But our second unit in the third quarter played unbelievable. I wish we could've played them the whole second half.
It was personal for both of them. They both did a great job tonight.
It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace for the impact but you know you can't. How do you tell somebody they're going to get run over by a truck when they see it coming too but can't get out of the way?
It's hard to know which way to go when you get blindsided by something like this. It's literally one foot in front of the other right now. That's as far as you look.
I want to be a Hawk first, and hopefully we'll find a way for that to happen. That's my number one goal.
It's a good trade for everybody now, until they start playing with these guys. Indiana gets some much-needed scoring punch, and the Kings get that much-needed defensive presence. ... Right now it looks real good. But if Ron-Ron is right, Sacramento will get the better end of that deal.
It's a great victory. They're the best team in basketball. They came in and thought they were going to blow us out of the arena. We stood up for ourselves.
When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media knows it, and we were a casualty of that tonight. We played as hard as they did. We deserved that one as much as they did.
We're a better team than we were last year. We've given away 10 games this year. We have to continue to compete.
We're so close. If we didn't have such a bad start, we'd be in the thick of things. We're still playing for a lot of pride.
We've won our last three that way. We'll take 26 more like that as long we win. We never get discourage. We just play through our mistakes and that's the biggest difference.