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The Hawks and Bobcats will try to end their respective losing streaks as they meet on Wednesday night in the teams' final game before the All-Star break.

Atlanta (21-27) is in danger of matching a season-high fourth straight loss, set from Jan. 16-23. The Hawks also have not fared well at Philips Arena recently, losing four straight and 10 of 11.

Atlanta is averaging 89.5 points in its last two games, and Johnson has struggled. The All-Star guard has scored a total of 19 points while shooting 24.0 percent (6-for-25) from the field in that span.

Johnson, who averages 20.6 points, was held to just 11 in a 94-90 loss to Detroit on Tuesday night.

Against Charlotte (18-34) this season, however, Johnson is averaging 32.5 points and 8.0 assists while shooting 54.8 percent (23-for-42) from the field to lead Atlanta to two wins.

Wallace, meanwhile, averaged 25.5 points in those games, but the star guard will sit out Wednesday for the fifth time in six games with a strained foot as the Bobcats try to avoid their season-high eighth straight loss.

Charlotte has been ranked the ninth-most miserable city in the nation, according to a ranking by Forbes magazine.

The magazine surveyed 150 metropolitan areas and ranked them according to unemployment, personal tax rates, commute times, weather, crime and superfund sites.

According to Forbes, Charlotte has undergone tremendous economic growth the past decade and the population has soared 32 percent. However, employment growth has not kept up with the rise in population, meaning unemployment rates are up more than 50 percent from a decade ago.

Charlotte scored in the bottom half of the six categories. Its worst score was for violent crime, at 838 incidents per 100,000 residents.

amcoolio wrote:I'm not sure how Charlotte is favored.

JoshB914 wrote:If you go on other teams' message boards, you'll see freaking everyone blame everything and hates on their coach. Even Utah was hating on Sloan earlier in the year.

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What else is there to blame it on? Atlanta and Charlotte have much more talent than their records show. Especially Atlanta.

amcoolio wrote:I'm not sure how Charlotte is favored. I don't see us winning another game until April.

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We are pretty horrible on the second game of back to backs.

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Exactly how horrible stat master?

JoshB914 wrote:If you go on other teams' message boards, you'll see freaking everyone blame everything and hates on their coach. Even Utah was hating on Sloan earlier in the year.