Acie Law excelling in Atlanta already

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an excellent piece on how Acie Law is already impressing his coaches and his team while playing in the NBA Summer League. Acie has already assumed a leadership role on the team, and appears well on his way to being their point guard of the future.

Already taking charge in Atlanta.

Acie Law signs contract with Hawks

Former Texas A&M point guard Acie Law signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks yesterday. Law is guaranteed $1.605 million this year, and $1.726 million next year. As an Aggie fan, I am thrilled that Acie is finally realizing his dream of playing in the NBA. Hopefully, this will help our basketball recruiting in Dallas.


Is guaranteed many dollars. Millions of them.

Now, I just need to hope they start selling Law IV jerseys in Dallas.

Acie Law is a lottery pick, taken #11 by Atlanta

Former Texas A&M point guard Acie Law was the #11 pick of the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft, becoming Texas A&M's highest ever draft pick.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has a nice article about Atlanta's two lottery picks, Law and Florida's Al Horford (picked #3 overall).

The Dallas Morning News has coverage of the Big 12's showing in the lottery (3 players taken in the first 13 picks) , including the following quotes from Law:

"We talked about that coming into the draft, the opportunity that we had to
have three players go in the lottery," Law told the Kansas City Star. "It just
speaks volumes of the talent that is in that conference.

"I think this is not the [last] time you're going to see three players get
drafted in the lottery. I think there are a lot of talented players left in that
conference, and people are going to find out."

Sounds like Acie believes we'll still have plenty of terrific players to watch next season, and in the years to come.

Monday Musings

• Wendell Barnhouse of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram gives an excellent take on revenue sharing in the Big 12 Conference. I really don't understand the viewpoint of the athletic directors who want television revenues shared equally. It's like, I go out and bust my butt to raise money so I can hire the best and brightest coaches so I can win at a level that attracts the attention of the television networks, and the reward for all my hard work is that I give part of the money to another program? I don't think so.
  
• Acie Law is flying around the country, getting ready for the NBA Draft on Thursday.
  
• Aggieland Outfitters and the texas university System have settled their lawsuit over the "Saw'em Off" logo. I still think it is amusing that this lawsuit was filed ten days after A&M beat texas, 12-7.