<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Sacramento ? Hawks fans horrified at the thought of what their team might look like without captain and leading scorer Joe Johnson found out Sunday night. Johnson sat out of the Hawks' game against Sacramento at Arco Arena with a strained muscle in his right calf. Johnson said the injury had bothered him for more than a week but became more troublesome after the Hawks' Friday night loss in Los Angeles to the Lakers. Sitting out Sunday night also cost Johnson the NBA's iron man title ? he had started a league-best 376 consecutive regular season games before Sunday ? something he wasn't particularly worried about given the pain in his calf. "It was hurting during the Denver game (Wednesday) but we had a couple days off before we played the Lakers so I had a chance to rest it," Johnson said. "But during the Lakers game it was on fire. And after the game it swelled up on me and really starting causing me problems." Johnson, who has scored the second-most points in franchise history through 100 games, will be listed as day-to-day on the Hawks' injury report. But he said he's hoping to play Tuesday night against Denver at Philips Arena. Marvin Williams started in Johnson's place Sunday. It was just his second game back from injury, he missed the past seven weeks with a fractured finger on his non-shooting hand.</div> Source
