"For the better part of the past two years, Hawks point guard Mike Bibby played his role to perfection.

When his team needed a clutch basket or the right pass, he was there. He ran things in a way that not only put Hawks coach Mike Woodson and his teammates at ease, he did it in ways the Hawks hadn't seen before his arrival.

"We didn't put it all together until he showed up," Josh Smith said. "Once he got here it all came together. To me, you couldn't ask a guy to do any more than he's done for this team."

But that's exactly what the Hawks did when they re-signed Bibby as a free agent this past summer."