Rap pioneers Run-DMC will do a post-game concert after their hometown New York Knicks take on the Hawks tonight at Philips Arena. The group should perform its 1984 hip-hop classic "Hard Times."

Sporting their trademark black derbies and white shell-toed Adidases, Run-DMC would parade back and forth and scream the first line of the song, "Hard times spreading/ just like the flu. . .''

And though the Hawks are considerable better off for the future than the overcapped, undertalented Knicks, Michael Lee of the AJC write that it would serve as a reminder of the season that wasn't in Atlanta and New York.