Ex-Hawk Childress has sports hernia surgery

Marvin Williams thought he was seeing things Monday when his cellphone indicated he had missed a call from his good friend Josh Childress.

While he kept in contact with his former Hawks teammate regularly via e-mail and text, they had spoken on the phone only a couple of times since Childress left for Greece.

“I knew something had to be up if he was calling,” Williams said before the Hawks played Chicago on Tuesday night at United Center.

Something was.

Childress had sports-hernia surgery Tuesday in Philadelphia and will be out for six to eight weeks, providing an early return stateside, even if it is for a month or so. He joins a growing list of injured Hawks, former and present.

Williams (concussion) and Al Horford (knee) are day-to-day, while reserve guard Acie Law IV is out seven to 10 days with a right quadriceps contusion.