the charlotte speedsters

both an homage to our nascar history and to david wesley/bobby phills RIP

3/2/2010 5:40:03 PM

or just charlotte speed, that's kinda cool too

3/2/2010 5:43:46 PM

kinda cool for a NBDL team

3/2/2010 5:45:56 PM

ooh, sick burn

3/2/2010 5:51:40 PM

I still think we're going to get in the playoffs.

Miami is skidding with Wade banged up and they can't win a lot of games unless he's 100%

The bucks seem to be playing better ball right now which is scary because they're the next easiest team to pass.

The bulls and toro are going to be tough to catch at this point, so i definitely don't want to rely on them falling apart.

I just feel like this team has the chemistry to really get on a roll and rattle off some tough wins. It would REALLY help if we could get either Nazr or Chandler back though.

We've got a few tough games here so if we can just hold serve long enough to get back into our softer schedule I think we'll sneak in.

At that point anything can happen because we clearly matchup well with the Lebrons.... I'd rather take them on than the Magic for sure.

3/2/2010 6:12:50 PM

i don't see jordan going for "speed"

3/2/2010 6:23:27 PM

we already have/had a Speed in charlotte

http://www.carolinaspeed.com/

3/3/2010 9:26:39 AM

Charlotte FireAnts!

3/3/2010 10:05:19 AM

fuck

3/4/2010 1:13:50 AM

One good thing about missing the playoffs -- there would be no reason not to start the franchise over. New owner = new name, new colors, a few new players? We've got the coach and the roster to make a strong push next year for the playoffs (or so it seems).

Then we can pretend the whole Charlotte Bobcat experiment was just a bad dream.

3/4/2010 1:47:39 PM

Yeah but...

if we miss the playoffs and have the best or second best record of any team not to make them, we lose our pick

Either play better and make them, or play shitty enough to drop to 12 worst record in the league

Quote :

"2010 first round draft pick to Minnesota Charlotte’s own 2010 1st round pick to Minnesota via Denver (top 12 protected in 2010, top 10 protected in 2011, top 8 protected in 2012, top 3 protected in 2013, and unprotected in the 2014 NBA Draft). [Charlotte - Denver, 6/25/2008 and then Denver - Minnesota, 6/25/2009] 2010 second round draft pick to Phoenix Charlotte's own 2010 2nd round pick to Phoenix [Charlotte - Phoenix, 12/10/2008] 2016 second round draft pick to San Antonio Charlotte's own 2016 2nd round pick to San Antonio (top 55 protected in the 2016 Draft). If Charlotte's own 2016 2nd round pick is in the top 55 picks, then Charlotte's obligations to San Antonio shall be extinguished. Read more: http://www.realgm.com/src_future_draftpicks.php#ixzz0hEf5Mqgs "

[Edited on March 4, 2010 at 1:53 PM. Reason : x]

3/4/2010 1:48:54 PM

NBA Teams for sale 40% off MSRP

Quote :

"The Charlotte Bobcats will be sold to Michael Jordan for a price that values the franchise at about $175 million, if owners approve. This is a big blow to the NBA because current owner Robert L. Johnson paid an expansion fee of $300 million seven years ago and the league has several teams looking for investors. Read more: http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/65131/20100304/report_bobcats_sold_for_just_$175m/#ixzz0hF2cPNY6 "

3/4/2010 3:27:29 PM

wow, i thought itd be 225-250k that is a surprising number if its true.

i bet other owners around the league are freaking out at the news.


^^ without looking at the standings im pretty sure there are a few teams in the west like houston, memphis who are a good bit ahead of us.

Anyway I'd rather them take a 12-17 pick this year then keep carrying this thing forward and potentially losing a top pick in a few seasons...

3/4/2010 5:11:17 PM

We just don't understand the mathematics of late season tanking

Like a few years back if we lost our last game, we would have no worse than the 4th pick

If we won, we would have to flip a coin for 4 or 5

We won, than lost the coin toss and picked 5th and got Felton

New Orleans picked 4 and got Paul

3/4/2010 5:16:38 PM

^ yeah that was really dumb. it was also dumb not to agree to trade the 5 and 13 for the 3 from portland and take deron or paul.

3/4/2010 5:25:48 PM

If only Orlando had selected Okafor...

3/4/2010 5:29:58 PM

The lols of what if with Bobcats drafts:


2003: We miss the best draft of all time by 1 year...we would have had the 4th pick and surely taken Bosh

2004: Howard instead of Okafor

2005: my aforementioned scenario; taking May over Granger

2006: Roy or Gay instead of Morrison

2007: Can't really complain, Brandan Wright isn't doing anything

2008: Taking Augustin over Lopez

3/4/2010 5:33:33 PM

^Probably would have taken Bosh ... could have taken Wade. Then there's David West, Josh Howard, Kendrick Perkins, Barbosa, and Diaw in the last half of the first round, and Mo Williams in the 2nd round.

What a draft.

3/4/2010 9:03:59 PM

we would've traded up to get darko

3/4/2010 10:20:52 PM

Dont forget taking Henderson over Lawson or Blair.

3/4/2010 10:45:17 PM

Thats hindsight...no one was clamoring for us to take either one during the draft

All the other ones were criticized before, during, and after they happened

3/4/2010 10:47:10 PM

3/6/2010 12:49:48 PM

29-31 and on the outside looking in right now....BUT 1 game out of the playoffs and 3 out of the 5 seed. I wouldnt care if we played Cleveland, Orlando, Atlanta or Boston. Just get in!

3/6/2010 4:09:01 PM

Down goes Golden State. DJ with 19 off the bench.

One more win gets them back to .500

3/6/2010 10:12:08 PM

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/rumors/post/Bobcats-hiring-James-Worthy-?urn=nba,226820

Tarcats

3/9/2010 3:35:41 PM

7.2 seconds away from .500

and that's game. 31-31, essentially 6th seed with the tiebreaker right now

[Edited on March 9, 2010 at 9:24 PM. Reason : .]

3/9/2010 9:20:04 PM

I can't wait to see them in the playoffs

3/9/2010 9:31:10 PM

^ lots of bball yet. Don't jinx it.

3/9/2010 9:40:10 PM

very true there are still 20 games left

I'd be disappointed if they couldn't lock down at least the 8th seed after the way they've played since the Jackson trade though.

3/9/2010 9:43:02 PM

i'll be disappointed as well. looking at the remaining games, they really aren't THAT bad. if we can go at least 10-10 the rest of the way, there's no way we miss out

3/9/2010 9:50:32 PM

the problem with the schedule is they dont play CLE or LAL anymore

3/9/2010 10:04:00 PM

somebody make one of those 5-frame vertical zoom pics of Stephen Graham's face

3/10/2010 12:16:14 AM

Quote :

"i really dont see how any true Charlottean New Yorker could possibly support the Lollercats Mets. i really just dont understand how a team can be ripped straight from my heart (the Hornets Dodgers) and replaced with this ridiculous sideshow circus that very few people in charlotte New York care about. the hornets Dodgers were Charlotte's Brooklyn's team. through and through. the entire city embraced them and it was as passionate of an NBA baseball city as there was out there. i understand the Bobcats Mets are new, young, etc... the worst team in the history of baseball but its just not the same and never will be. "

-A random resident of Brooklyn, circa 1964

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM. Reason : .]

3/10/2010 9:04:29 AM

This is the type of game tonight that the Bobcats should win

Hopefully they won't suffer a letdown on the back to back.

3/10/2010 6:34:08 PM

Need to win this...of the next 6 games including tonight, 4 are on the road, and two of those are @ORL and @ATL. We need to win tonight and win our home games and at least go 3-3 this stretch

3/10/2010 7:11:18 PM

great 1st quarter

3/10/2010 7:34:33 PM

73% FG

3/10/2010 7:40:40 PM

http://www.nba.com/bobcats/chat_bobcats_sixers_100310.html

live Bobcats chat LOL

3/10/2010 7:48:40 PM

62-44 at the half

3/10/2010 8:17:58 PM

Good win Bobcats!

3/10/2010 9:45:58 PM

Wallace was 9-10 from the field. Diaw was 5-5. I didn't watch the game, but did the 76ers play any defense?

3/10/2010 10:00:21 PM

Ricky B bringing the heat this morning!

Quote :

"All you fools who made fun of me for writing it would be a huge mistake for the Bobcats to sign Allen Iverson (you know who you are; I can look up the responses) can send me your heart-felt apologies soon as possible."

3/11/2010 9:26:06 AM

nice, chicago down 32 at the half to orlando

3/11/2010 9:45:48 PM

damn, have we ever had a 5-game win streak?

beat LAC tonight

3/12/2010 10:32:13 PM

I think we had a 7 or 8 game streak last year in our playoff push

3/12/2010 11:54:56 PM

HOW BOUT THEM BOBCATS

</drunk>

3/13/2010 1:57:43 AM

We had a 6 game win streak already THIS YEAR anyone who didnt realize that is a miserable cocksukcer fucking asshole who lets Desagnana Diop rape them with no lube and no condum and then squats over a plate and lets the nut drip out on to it and then slurps it up with a straw, and they do all of this willingly with no coercion needed on Diop's part, so I guess tehcnically its not rape but consensual sex, which makes it even worse.

3/13/2010 4:02:24 AM

Quote :

"cocksukcer"

Quote :

"condum"

Quote :

"tehcnically"

but maybe that's why Diop has been having dizzy spells

3/13/2010 10:17:13 AM

apparently they signed Larry Hughes after all

3/13/2010 1:28:11 PM

i saw that, i like it

3/13/2010 1:36:16 PM