After the shock of the late night trade that sent Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Theo Ratliff, and Dan Dickau to Portland for Rasheed Wallace and Wesley Person wore off Tuesday afternoon, Hawks GM Billy Knight met the media, including RealGM to discuss the team?s future and some of the details about the trade.

Included in this discussion was his frank revelation that he first intended to deal Shareef to a ?championship team?, in order to quiet the critics of the power forward?s game who say he is a loser because he has never played on a winning team.

Also, Knight talks about why he made the deal, answers the question of whether new ownership ordered him to make the deal, why there were no draft picks involved, and if the deconstruction of the team is complete or are there more deals on the way.