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Kwame Brown, Randolph Morris audition for Hawks
Team's search for center turns to local products


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/16/08

The Hawks search for a center continued when local products Kwame Brown and Randolph Morris worked out for the team on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Coach Mike Woodson was encouraged by what he saw from the unrestricted free agents following Tuesday's closed session.

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"It's nice to see two big bodies first and foremost," Woodson said. "Zaza [Pachulia], Al Horford and Solomon Jones are the only real bigs we've got. Josh Smith isn't the big 7-footer, even though he's done a great job for us holding it down at that position.

"But it was nice to have two big guys like those guys competing against each other in our gym and giving us an opportunity to look at them in hopes that they might be a part of our basketball team. Kwame might come back [Wednesday], so that let's me know that he's sincere about our team."

Morris worked out with other players at the Hawks afternoon minicamp in preparation for the Rocky Mountain Revue summer league. He will not accompany the team to Salt Lake City.

Randolph, the former Landmark Christian star, did say that the idea of playing for the Hawks and before his hometown fans, is a tantalizing proposition.

"Of course it would be nice to come back home and play," said Randolph, who spent the first year and a half of his NBA career with the New York Knicks. "But you'd have to talk to my agent [Wallace Prather] about where we go from here. I'm here and doing everything I can. We'll just have to see where it goes from here."

Brown, who went to Glynn Academy, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and Memphis Grizzlies last season.

In other news, Jim Todd and Tyrone Hill were named to the Hawks coaching staff under Woodson. They join Larry Drew and Bob Bender.

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