Hawks Fans Are Bashing Al Horford, So His Sister is Defending Him on Twitter

At any rate, Hawks fans are pissed at Horford for leaving for the Celtics. That’s what fans do these days. They should see Jerry Seinfeld’s riff on delusional sports fans:

But in Atlanta they’re not level-headed – hey, decades of futility isn’t easy to stomach – so they’re acting irrationally on twitter, and here’s how Al Horford’s sister responded to them:

I have no dog in this fight. But I don’t understand why Al Horford couldn’t decide to leave a job he worked at for nine years. The Celtics offered him $113 million over four years. Atlanta wasn’t going there. How are Hawks fans going to tell Horford – this was his last hefty contract, as he just turned 30 – that he should taken have taken eight figures less to stay in Atlanta?