PHILADELPHIA - Dominique Wilkins slapped Al Horford on his back during a brief locker room chat and dished out a few kind words.Horford at last had a triple-double to add to his own highlight reel.Congratulations on your first one, brother, Wilkins said.With Wilkins calling the action from the broadcast booth, Horford had 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists to lead the Atlanta Hawks to their ninth straight win, 105-87 over the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night.The Hawks easily thumped the Sixers even while resting leading scorer Jeff Teague, Paul Millsap and DeMarre Carroll in a stretch of four games in five nights.Its always hard when youre missing some guys, coach Mike Budenholzer said. You worry maybe about each guy not doing his job and continuing to play within the framework of the team. I thought our guys did, for the most part, a good job of sticking to what they do.Horford did his even better, making 8 of 10 shots in just 29 minutes. He was pulled once he grabbed his 10th rebound.All the guys on the bench started telling me, Get two more rebounds! Get two more rebounds! he said. The guys were great about it.The Hawks have won 23 of 25 and won their ninth straight road game. They are in first place this late in the season for the first time since they won the East in 1993-94.Kent Bazemore scored 17 points and Kyle Korver had 15. The Hawks made 12 of 23 3-pointers.Korver showed his former team why hes the best 3-point shooter in the league. He made one 3 late in the first half for a 43-35 lead, followed with another on the next possession, then watched as Mike Scott buried his own 3 to send the Hawks into halftime up 49-37.The Hawks used those three 3s in the final 1:13 of the half to help turn a five-point lead into a rout. They are on their second nine-game winning streak of the season.It kind of feels like a college team in a lot of ways, Korver said. In the NBA, the business side exists. Its on peoples minds. But I feel like everyone here has really bought in.Shelvin Macks 3 late in the third helped stretch the lead to 21 points and the Hawks rested about the entire starting lineup for most of the fourth quarter. Mack had 12 points and 10 rebounds.Michael Carter-Williams scored 20 points for the Sixers and K.J. McDaniels had 14. Guard Tony Wroten did not return after he sprained his right knee. The lowly Sixers had won three of four and zipped past New York in the Eastern Conference standings.They make everything so simple that youve really got to stay disciplined on defence, Carter-Williams said. We didnt tonight and thats why we lost.TIP-INSHawks: At 35, Hawks forward Elton Brand knows his career is winding down. Im enjoying riding the bus, he said. When I go to Utah, I take a walk and try and get a lunch in the mountains or something because I dont know if Ill be back here. Brand played four seasons with the Sixers and helped lead them to Game 7 of the 2012 Eastern Conference semifinals. Brand said its been hard watching the Sixers struggle and wondered how much better off the franchise would be today had it stuck with a promising group of young players. I see the pieces around the league, Brand said. Lou Williams getting 30. Andre Iguodala having a great glue-guy personality. Even (Mo) Speights is getting 20 off the bench. (Nik) Vucevic (in Orlando) is 30 and 15 some nights.76ers: What tank? The Hawks are proof that teams dont necessarily have to take Philadelphias lengthy rebuilding plan to rise to the top of the conference. Sixers coach Brett Brown said the Hawks have built a team with a bunch of really good guys that are a bunch of really good players. ... The 76ers have kept an eye on second-round pick Jordan McRaes progress in Australia. There are no immediate plans for McRae to play in the NBA this season.BOARD GAMELed by Horford and Mack, the Hawks outrebounded the Sixers 47-35. The Sixers have been outrebounded by double-digits in each of the past two games and 13 times overall this season (1-12 record).UP NEXTHawks: Visit Boston on Wednesday.76ers: Visit Toronto on Wednesday. Rick Barry Jersey . Halak, 28, split his eighth NHL seasons between the St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres and Washington Capitals, compiling a 29-13-7 record in 52 games. Cheap Warriors Jerseys Authentic . Rinne had surgery on his left hip May 9 and recovered in time to start the season. He then had arthroscopic surgery on Oct. 24 because of a bacterial infection in his hip. http://www.cheapwarriorsjerseysstore.com/. The Union looked to have grabbed a big win in the 88th minute when Amobi Okugo finally put the hosts in front. But a terrible giveaway by Union goalkeeper Rais Mbolhi handed Earnshaw the equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time, keeping the Union two points back of fifth-place Red Bull New York for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Klay Thompson Jersey .Y. - Referee Ed Hochuli referred to replay official Tom Sifferman by his nickname Jungle Boy, which was heard on the in-stadium microphone during the Arizona Cardinals-Carolina Panthers NFC wild-card game Saturday. Mitch Richmond Jersey . Unlike last year when nobody got in, there have been estimates of as many as five getting voted in this time around and as few as one, Greg Maddux.The Tampa Bay Lightning are challenging for the best record in the Eastern Conference despite some uninspiring play on the road. Another chance to fix that comes tonight against an Ottawa Senators team seeking its first three-game win streak in well over two months. Avoiding another road loss wont be easy in Ottawa, a city where the Lightning have gone 5-21-4 since January 1998. They ended a five-game skid there with a 5-4 victory March 20. The first two meetings this season came in Tampa Bay and Bishop stopped 58 of 61 shots in helping the Lightning to a 1-0-1 mark. He made 26 saves in a 4-1 victory Nov. 29 and improved to 5-0-2 lifetime against the Senators with a 2.34 GAA. Bobby Ryan scored 44 seconds into overtime Saturday in Boston, lifting Ottawa (16-14-7) to a 3-2 victory. Kyle Turris also scored and Mike Hoffmans goal with 4:15 left in the third period forced overtime. The Senators, who are 5-3-2 since Dave Cameron took over as coach, havent won three straight since a four-game run Oct. 11-18. Its good for momentum, said Craig Anderson, who made 26 saves. I think its important for us to have some success after last little bit of focusing on the process. The process has been there. We havent gotten the result every single night that we wanted, but tonight was a different story. Cameron will look to Robin Lehner in goal for todays contest. Both teams enter this matchup with struggling power plays. The Lightning rank near the top of the league with 3.23 goals per game and have four double-digit goal scorers, but are 2 for 31 on the man advantage over the last eight games. Ottawa, which ranks in the bottom half of the league with 2.62 goals per contest, hasnt scored on a power play in 199 chances over six games.dddddddddddd. Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson has five goals and five assists during a six-game point streak against Tampa Bay. The Lightning are vying with Montreal and Detroit for the Atlantic Division lead mostly on the strength of a 15-4-1 home record. They swept a recent three-game homestand with a trio of one-goal wins and stayed hot with a 5-1 rout of Buffalo on New Years Eve in the opener of a four-game trip. They had no such luck Friday in Pittsburgh, though, giving up the games first three goals en route to a 6-3 loss. Tampa Bay (24-12-4) closed the deficit to 4-3 midway through the third period but Steve Downie restored the Penguins two-goal cushion just 34 seconds later and sealed the win with an empty-net goal. You cant do that against any team in the league let alone the Pittsburgh Penguins, Lightning coach Jon Cooper said of his teams slow start. Its really disappointing. Coopers team dropped to 2-4-2 in its last eight road games, with those two victories coming against Philadelphia and Buffalo - two teams currently outside the playoff picture. Ben Bishop was replaced by Evgeni Nabokov after allowing those first three goals on 10 shots. Hes 5-3-1 with a 2.91 goals-against average away from Tampa Bay compared to 13-3-1 and a 2.06 GAA at home. Its the breaks of hockey, captain Steven Stamkos said. When you deserve it, you get the breaks, and when you dont, you dont. 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