Hawks' S. Williams carjacked at gunpoint before game

"It's so sad what happens out in the world today," Marvin Williams said. "Guys work so hard and for someone to come up and take it from you that quick, it's sad. Shelden is a tough guy. I'm sure he'll bounce back from it. I just thank God that nothing happened to him."

Shelden Williams told Woodson and other team officials about the incident when he reported for the game. He said the car was stolen outside an Atlanta barber shop.

Williams declined comment to the Associated Press before the game but told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution "It's been a long day, but I'm fine."

Williams huddled with a Hawks' security official in the locker room after the game. He did not make himself available for interviews.

Syblis said Williams, a second-year player from Duke, did not identify himself as a player for the Hawks.

Syblis says the incident occurred outside a barber shop on Cascade Road in Atlanta, providing another example that athletes don't have to be in dangerous areas to be targeted.

"You've got to be really careful who you're with, where you're going, things of that nature," Hawks guard Joe Johnson said. "I mean, I don't know, a lot of athletes are being targeted the last month or two.

"It could have been worse. Luckily it wasn't. Luckily he was able to walk away form it. That's the main thing. Everything else is materialistic."

The incident is only the latest in a series of attacks on professional athletes. Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor was shot and killed at his home in what is believed to have been a botched burglary.

Earlier this month, Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and his entourage were shot at in a parking lot outside a five-star hotel in Indianapolis.