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Hawks Add Nogueira, Schroeder, and Muscala In 2013 Draft
Wow. What a first round. For a draft that was supposed to be short on buzz, it was about the daffiest I can remember. Lots of surprise picks, lots of trades, and when the dust settled the Hawks came away with two players (expected), but at the #16 and #17 slots instead of 17-18.

Before we get to the picks, let s start first with the trade. Since the trade wasn t official until after the first round, technically the Hawks traded the rights to Shane Larkin (#18) for the rights to Lucas Noguiera (#16), Mike Muscala (#44), as well as Mavs forward Jared Cunningham.

Nogueira is an athletic young big man out of Brazil, 20-years old and 7-feet tall (7-5 with the afro), who played this past season in Spain for Estudiantes, where he averaged 5.5 ppg and 3.4 rpg in 12.1 minutes. The skinny on Nogueira is he s a guy who has a lot of room to grow, but at 7-0 projects as having a lot of potential as a defensive presence and rebounder.

At #17, the Hawks selected 19-year old guard Dennis Schroeder, the first German-born player taken in the first round since Dirk Nowitzki. Schroeder turned a lot of heads at the Nike Hoops Summit earlier this year, and has drawn rave reviews for his poise running an offense in the halfcourt and in transition.

Cunningham, who was taken #24 in last year s NBA Draft out of Oregon State, also comes to the Hawks from the Mavericks, who appear to be trying to clear as much cap space as they can in advance of free agency.

The final piece of the trade with Dallas came in the form of Muscala, a 6-11 big man and four-year starter at Bucknell and the school s all-time leading scorer. In talking to Danny Ferry after the picks were in, he said that the analytics crowd raves about Muscala, saying he d have been a top-five pick if it d been solely up to them. High praise.

As of now, the Hawks also maintain the rights to #47th pick Raul Neto and #50 James Ennis, though both of them are thought to be potentially headed elsewhere.

All in all, a very interesting night that saw the Hawks come away with some intriguing prospects, and hopefully we ll get a chance to see these guys in action in Summer League in just a few short weeks.

What did you think?

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Sharpshooter Allen returning to Heat next season
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10 Guns That Shaped American History
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A new book,, details the 10 firearms that have the biggest stake in American history.

The author is Chris Kyle, a legendary Navy SEAL inApril as a result of gunshot wounds when a Marine veteran with post traumatic stress disorder turned his weapon on Kyle at a Texas shooting range.

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Kyle was working on a book about the guns that defined America before his death, and it has now been published posthumously.

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The forum s key task is to develop a consolidated position on pricing, create conditions for reducing excessive price volatility and increase the sector s transparency, which should contribute to gas transport infrastructure development and more reliable [gas] deliveries, Putin said during a session at the forum s second summit that opened in Moscow on Monday.

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Putin slammed attempts to move away from long-term gas contracts and adopt volatile spot prices, saying that this would lead to serious costs and, in the long run, undermine importing countries energy security.

Some European energy companies, such as Italy's Edison, Germany's RWE and E.ON, Poland s PGNiG's, appealed to the Stockholm Arbitration Tribunal in 2011 for a ruling on gas price discounts and a switch to spot prices for gas, which were far below the gas prices set in Gazprom s long-term contracts at that time.

Gazprom cut gas prices for long-term contracts with European energy firms from early 2012, bringing them in line with trends on spot markets.

The introduction of the third energy package limits the EU s traditional gas suppliers, which have invested for decades in the development of Europe s gas transportation system, Putin said.

Calling for greater unity among gas exporters as a more efficient way of resisting illegitimate pressure and safeguarding the interests of gas producers and suppliers alike, Putin said.

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Koch brothers push GOP officials to sign anti
Getty Images Charles and David Koch The Republican Party is certainly fond of its pledges. Grover Norquist, of course, has his infamous anti-tax pledge that has interfered with federal policymaking in recent decades, and in 2011, GOP presidential candidates were pushed to endorse an anti-gay pledge from the National Organization for Marriage. But as it turns out, there's another pledge that's taken root in Republican politics that's received far less attention. The New Yorker's this week on the "No Climate Tax Pledge" pushed by Charles and David Koch.

Starting in 2008, a year after the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate greenhouse gasses as a form of pollution, accelerating possible Congressional action on climate change, the Koch-funded nonprofit group, Americans for Prosperity, devised the "No Climate Tax" pledge. It has been, according to the study, a component of a remarkably successful campaign to prevent lawmakers from addressing climate change. Two successive efforts to control greenhouse-gas emissions by implementing cap-and-trade energy bills died in the Senate, the latter of which was specifically targeted by A.F.P.'s pledge.

By now, [411] current office holders nationwide have signed the pledge. Signatories include the entire Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, a third of the members of the House of Representatives as a whole, and a quarter of U.S. senators.

The pledge, uncovered as part of a two-year study by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, forces policymakers to oppose any legislation relating to climate change unless it is accompanied by an equivalent amount of tax cuts." [Updated: see below] And what, pray tell, do tax cuts have to do with the climate crisis and effects of global warming? Nothing in particular, but the Koch brothers hope to make it impossible to pass any bills related to carbon emissions,Virginia Dem calls for McDonnell's resignation, and by demanding tax cuts,NBA All Star T Shirts, they're effectively eliminating any credible policy options -- as Mayer, "Since most solutions to the problem of greenhouse-gas emissions require costs to the polluters and the public, the pledge essentially commits those who sign to it to vote against nearly any meaningful bill regarding global warning, and acts as yet another roadblock to action."

When President Obama unveiled his fairly ambitious new climate agenda last week, some hoped it would spur in Washington. There's still room for a comprehensive climate policy that may be more effective than the administration using the Clean Air Act to limit emissions, but it would require Congress to work towards a sensible, consensus remedy. Republicans don't like the White House policy? Fine, it's time policymakers sat down with environmentalists and industries to work on an alternative. Of course, Congress can't do much of anything with a radicalized House majority, and climate legislation appears completely out of the question -- the Koch brothers have a pledge to ensure failure, no matter the consequences. This is why we can't have nice things.
 * Update: The of the pledge reads as follows: "I, ______________________,Minnesota Timberwolves T Shirts, pledge to the taxpayers of the state of ______________ and to the American people that I will oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue." The Koch-financed opponents of combating the climate crisis see this as different from Mayer's description, though it's worth emphasizing that since any meaningful policy would generate revenue, the pledge would effectively call for tax cuts to guarantee revenue neutrality. As for why far-right anti-climate activists would oppose new government revenue -- which could ostensibly be applied to deficit reduction, which conservatives occasionally pretend to care about -- your guess is as good as mine.