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Joe Johnson has been on the past four Eastern Conference All-Star teams, and this season teammate Al Horford gave the Atlanta Hawks some additional representation.
Josh Smith didn’t join them for the festivities, but he certainly played like an All-Star during a February highlighted by a triple-double against the Chicago Bulls.
Smith seeks a similar start to March on Monday night as the visiting Hawks look to beat the Bulls for the third time in four meetings.
Johnson again leads the Hawks in scoring (21.9 points per game), Horford is their top rebounder (9.4 per game) and Jamal Crawford (17.2 ppg) is a leading candidate for the league’s Sixth Man of the Year honors, but perhaps no player is as vital to Atlanta’s success as Smith.
The Hawks (37-21) are 22-8 when Smith scores at least 16 points. He averaged 18.6 points and 10.0 rebounds in February — the first month of his career in which he averaged a double-double — to go with 5.4 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.4 blocks per game.
Smith had 22 points, 15 boards and six assists Sunday and Johnson scored 24 in a 106-102 overtime win over Milwaukee, snapping the Bucks’ six-game winning streak.
The Bulls (31-28) don’t need any reminder of Smith’s all-around skills after witnessing them in full force Feb. 5. A day after finding out he failed to make the All-Star team, Smith had 18 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists — his second career triple-double — and led Atlanta to a 91-81 win.
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