Los Angeles — It had to feel like old times for Mike Bibby on his first night as the Hawks' starting point guard.

A sellout Staples Center crowd booed his every move Tuesday night, much like they did during Bibby's days in Sacramento, when the Kings and Lakers battled for Western Conference supremacy earlier this decade.

Unlike those battles of old, this wasn't exactly a fair fight. Bibby's old team rarely took it on the chin the way the Hawks did this night, getting smacked all over the floor in a gruesome 122-93 loss to kick off the Hawks' Bibby era.

The Hawks' first game after the All-Star break ended just like the four before it, with a loss, as the Hawks fall to 21-29 on the season. Not even the addition of a top-flight point guard could prevent this beating from taking place.

Bibby gave everyone on the Hawks' bench a scare, too, when limped off the floor with 9:33 to play. He eventually went to the locker room with a right heel injury. He came back to the bench, with new shoes on, for the final two and half minutes of the third quarter but never went back into the game.

His night ended after only 16 minutes and 10 seconds of action. Bibby made one of his five shots and finished with five points, three assists, a steal and two turnovers.

The Hawks traded for Bibby on Saturday, sending four players and a second-round draft pick to Sacramento for the 10-year veteran point guard. He had a tough task Tuesday, though, charged with leading a team some 24 hours after meeting with and practicing with new teammates for the first time.

And the Hawks looked like a team unsure of how they would fit together, with turnovers galore and sloppiness marking their play from the start.

They had more turnovers than field goals by halftime and trailed 71-37, which was actually closer than the 41-point cushion the Lakers had in the 90 seconds before the break.

The Hawks made three consecutive 3-pointers, two from Jeremy Richardson and a near half-court heave from Josh Childress at the buzzer, to make things look a little better.

But the game was over by then.

Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant didn't miss a beat, playing fabulously through whatever pain ached in the torn ligament in right pinkie finger that will require surgery at some point after the season. He had 19 points and five steals at the break, punctuated by a soaring dunk on the break that sent the crowd into a frenzy. He finished with 23 points and did not play in the fourth quarter with the game already in hand.

Bryant had plenty of help, particularly from 7-foot center Pau Gasol, who was making his home debut for the Lakers after being traded from Memphis on Feb. 1.

Gasol had 17 points at halftime and finished with 21, putting on a show fit for a courtside crowd that included Jack Nicholson and Chris Rock sitting next to each other just a couple feet from the Hawks' bench.

Gasol played his second game as a Laker against the Hawks on Feb. 6, when the Hawks stunned the Lakers 98-95 at Philips Arena. But he wasn't nearly as effective that night, scoring 12 points and being outplayed by Hawks rookie center Al Horford.

The Hawks were so careless on offense Tuesday, though, that any pipe dreams of a second upset evaporated shortly after the starting lineups were introduced.

The Hawks had 19 turnovers at halftime, miscues the Lakers turned into an outlandish 27 points.

They can only hope for better showing Wednesday night, when their five-game Western Conference road trip makes its second stop in Sacramento of all places.