Tom Gugliotta was drafted by the Washington Bullets in 1992 and since then has played for several teams including the Warriors, Wolves, Suns, Celtics and now the Hawks, is hinting that this might be his final season.

"I went into this season thinking this was it," said Gugliotta, whose Hawks will take the floor against Washington Wednesday night at the MCI Center in the same town his NBA career began. "It's just the way I approached this whole thing, that I'd retire after this year and get one with the life."

"Teams in this league have this thing about going young. It's an epidemic," said Gugliotta, 35. "If you're not the future you're not the present. And that's just a fact. And to be honest, I like it the way it is now, me playing on year-to-year contracts. That way I can sit back and evaluate my options and then decide what I want to do.

"Sometimes guarantees in this league don't mean a whole lot," Gugliotta said. "I had guarantees (in Boston) from both the GM and the coach that I'd get a legitimate chance to play and do some things and it didn't happen. And I thought that was a pretty good guarantee."