Well we worked out a deal for Iverson and he got pissed about being traded to Charlotte so the deal got nixxed.

So much for us getting Iverson.

12/12/2006 1:44:55 PM

will be in town for the panthers steelers game on sunday. bobcats play the celtics on saturday night, a game they can actually WIN. tickets are 10 bucks on ticketmaster right now if you want to try to get one. later.

12/12/2006 1:45:44 PM

^^Bickerstaff vehemently denied that but who knows

I would like to see MJ have a sitdown with AI and make it happen

12/12/2006 1:47:24 PM

^ pretty likely that Bernie is lying.

He just doesnt want to make it look like charlotte is an unattractive place to play.


I dont blame iverson for wanting to play with more talent.... im hoping he goes to Boston or Sac personally

12/12/2006 2:51:41 PM

Quote :

"Source: Iverson was not keen on playing for Charlotte ESPN.com news services A trade that would have sent disgruntled guard Allen Iverson to the Charlotte Bobcats died Monday when Iverson indicated his displeasure with the deal, a source told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday. The Philadelphia 76ers guard has been inactive for the last three games after asking for a trade. The Sixers, on an eight-game losing streak, are reportedly looking to close a deal soon and have made the divorce all but final: they have cleaned out Iverson's locker and removed his highlights from the pre-game highlight reel shown at home games. The Inquirer reported that a source indicated Iverson's trade demand did not include limitations on where he was sent. But that apparently did not include the Bobcats (5-15), who have struggled on the floor and at the box office since joining the NBA in 2004. The Bobcats would make a logical trading partner, largely because they are an NBA-high $15 million under the salary cap. Outside of a core of young players the team wants to build around, including Emeka Okafor, Gerald Wallace, Raymond Felton and Adam Morrison, the Bobcats have players with contracts that expire in the next two years, including Brevin Knight, Melvin Ely, Othella Harrington and Primoz Brezec. A source told ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan that the Sixers appear determined to avoid the spectacle of prolonged trade talks that dogged the Indiana Pacers when Ron Artest demanded to be dealt last season. That dragged on for seven weeks before Artest was was dealt to Sacramento for Peja Stojakovic."

[Edited on December 12, 2006 at 3:26 PM. Reason : here]

12/12/2006 3:26:21 PM

that fucking sucks

12/12/2006 5:01:22 PM

well shit hurry up and trade him SOMEWHERE

HE'S ON MY BENCH ON FANTASY

12/12/2006 5:07:32 PM

ha see what bernie said

Quote :

""That is the biggest crap I have ever seen," Bickerstaff said, according to NBA.com. "It didn't even come into play. So there is no response to that.""

12/12/2006 5:09:59 PM

yeah Bernie "sounded" pissed

12/12/2006 5:10:26 PM

I have 2 sets of Gift Cards for Bobcats games that I don't want and I'm selling at face value.

Front:


Inside:


Back:


These are Smart Circle Gift Cards and they each include:
2 Free Tickets to any home game. $60 Level or below.
(Yes, that includes the Lower Level $60 ones)
4 Buy 1 get 1 free coupons to any home game. $60 Level or below.

$40 each or both for $70



[Edited on December 12, 2006 at 5:13 PM. Reason : Image]

12/12/2006 5:11:26 PM

if iverson had come then Bernie kid's could be his driver

12/12/2006 5:11:51 PM

do they expire?

might be interested

you in raleigh or charlotte?

12/12/2006 5:12:51 PM

In Raleigh. They are good for this season only.

12/12/2006 5:13:32 PM

I wish we could have gotten AI. I hear he can score the basketball prett well, a new or old ball.

12/13/2006 2:22:33 AM

well i think it was a good move so far (even we're down) to start primoz and bring in morrison off the bench...primoz was draining some 15'-18' shots over Z earlier and morrison hit a few consecutive shots once he came in...he's probably already scored as many FGs tonight (morrison) than he did the last 4 games

12/13/2006 8:01:12 PM

im playing the Sims 2 and my dude got this girl pregnant and i named the kid Bernie Bickerstaff

12/13/2006 8:19:57 PM

haha maybe one day he'll have a little John Blair

12/13/2006 8:44:03 PM

if the bobcats could get a star maybe they wouldnt stink so bad and have to give most of their tickets away

next semester i fully plan on taking advantage of one of the family fun nights and get some cheap ass tix

12/13/2006 9:15:23 PM

Knight sucks

he is hurt and still wont take himself out and is throwin up crap shots from 3 and they arent even hittin the rim


as I type this he finally made a jumper

he still sucks, put in Ray

12/14/2006 8:00:20 PM

we need to ditch BK while the gettin is still somewhat good

12/14/2006 8:05:03 PM

^ i agree with that....its almost like a Brees/Rivers situation

12/14/2006 8:12:04 PM

seeing jj out there makes me want to fucking puke...and the first quarter of this game made me want to puke on jj and then make him puke....and bernie bickerdick is a terrible coach and the owner is a racist bastard and they draft unc players

imo the only good thing about this team is morrison and okafor

12/14/2006 8:17:54 PM

it's neat seeing morrison guarding jj

12/14/2006 9:06:55 PM

Good good win tonight, Morrison played well and May had 32 and 6 on Howard... pretty damn strong showing on TNT

12/14/2006 9:41:26 PM

we kinda shut down "First Half" Howard

12/14/2006 11:29:19 PM

huge night for may and a good job getting back on track from morrison

nice to get that kind of win in front of a national audience

12/14/2006 11:39:20 PM

definitely...and our crowd didnt look pathetic on national TV either

12/14/2006 11:42:08 PM

we need morrison making speeches before our games like chris paul for the hornets...that was very weird and awkward...

"we're shorthanded, but we play really hard and need you to be our sixth man and support us"

aka we are about to lose so please cheer anyway kkthx

12/14/2006 11:45:33 PM

I'm wearing my authentic Bobcats Felton jersey at work today in celebration of their victory. Feels so nice.

12/15/2006 8:47:21 AM

thats baller

Quote :

"Iverson deals: The Bobcats factor Nobody's writing or talking about it much, but there's one person out there -- and you've probably heard of him before -- who can be a huge, huge factor in determining Allen Iverson's future home. He's none other than Charlotte Bobcats basketball operations chief Michael Jordan, and he could be a major power broker in the Iverson trade saga because he's the one guy in the entire NBA who can make just about any deal happen by brokering a three- or four-team trade. Iverson wouldn't end up in Charlotte, mind you (and if you believe everything you read, he doesn't want to play there, either), but would be traded through the Bobcats to someone else. Here's how: In most NBA trades, the salaries of the players being traded for one another must be within 125 percent of each other, plus $100,000. But if one of the teams in the deal is under the salary cap, that rule goes out the window, and the salaries no longer have to "match." In this case, the Bobcats currently have a payroll of $37.77 million, leaving them about $14.4 million below the salary cap of $53.135 million. In other words, they have $14.4 million in cap space. So in order to take on Iverson's $17.2 million salary, they'd have to move $2.8 million worth of salary -- and Jordan could do that by including Brevin KnightMelvin Ely ($3.3 million, trade-eligible Jan. 2) in a three- or four-team deal (perhaps sending him to one of the two teams with newly acquired injury exceptions, the Lakers (Chris Mihm) or Trail Blazers (Darius Miles). That's why Bobcats coach Bernie Bickerstaff was talking about being eager to be a trade facilitator for the 76ers, and why Jordan could still play a big part in getting Iverson routed to one of the marquee teams (Lakers? Heat?) trying to enter the mix. "This is like an estate sale. You're crazy if you don't try to get in on it," one Western Conference executive told me this evening, saying the Bobcats are crazy if they're not heavily involved. "They (the 76ers) want three things -- a young player, a draft pick and an expiring contract, and nobody has all three. Except Chicago." But the Bobcats, if they're creative enough, have the cap flexibility to get the Sixers those three commodities while picking something up for themselves along the way. Charlotte would assumedly want cash and a first-round draft pick, but there aren't many teams with enough extra No. 1s in 2007 (Phoenix has three -- its own, Atlanta's (protected top 3) and Cleveland's; while Denver, Detroit and the Clippers each have two) to toss one apiece to the Sixers and Bobcats to sweeten the pot in a three-team deal. Moreover, the Bobcats already have an extra No. 1 pick (Toronto's, protected 1-15), and they're so cash-starved (they laid off 12 employees Tuesday after an earlier round of front office cuts last summer; and they still don't have a naming rights deal, although owner Bob Johnson jettisoned the money-losing WNBA Sting on Wednesday) they just might consider brokering a deal simply to get their hands on $3 million -- the most any team can receive in a trade, and the exact lump sum they'd demand as a broker's fee to route Iverson elsewhere."

[Edited on December 15, 2006 at 11:44 AM. Reason : hmmm]

12/15/2006 11:34:57 AM

^Heck yeah, no more swingmans for me unless I'm really broke or they are too good to pass up on. No doubt.

12/15/2006 11:44:41 AM

Yeah I think I want a Felton jersey

12/15/2006 11:45:29 AM

Yeah, I got my jersey at the team store in Charlotte for about $180. I know if you go to the NBA Store, it'll be $170, but you got to include shipping, handling, and tax so it'll probably be the same price when it's all said and done. Just letting you know.

12/15/2006 11:50:59 AM

you should get the alternate blue, it's around 60

but if you don't want that one, they've got the white one and the orange one on sale at the mall for 40 bucks apiece

12/15/2006 11:53:07 AM

i got the white one, unfortunately it has the wide shoulders instead of the narrower ones the players wear.

12/15/2006 11:07:50 PM

Bobcats @ Knicks tonight 7:30

maybe we can beat them with 9 guys on thier bench

May is out for a week with an ankle injury

12/20/2006 4:20:44 PM

yea and knight isnt playing. starting derek anderson just to keep morrison comin off the bench. but hopefully the fact that they are missin more than the bobcats are will work in our favor.

12/20/2006 5:35:08 PM

bobcats get fucked over by the clock operator, lose on a inbounds lob with 0.1 seconds left and a tap in

12/20/2006 10:39:28 PM

Bobcats messed up when they picked all of the Carolina guys just to sell tickets, will take them a couple of years to rebound from that

12/20/2006 11:22:32 PM

yea felton and may have been disappointments so far (?)

12/21/2006 12:06:38 AM

^^^that's not really true. helluva tip too

12/21/2006 2:12:50 AM

for an HONEST tenth of a second, the only way that shot can be made is if it is lobbed and a guy uses his fist to punch it in

the Knick guy received the pass and his hand moved slightly backward and then forward again to lay it in. thats gotta take more than a tenth of a second.

12/21/2006 2:21:47 AM

what you're saying makes sense^ but is not one the rule states. any "tip in" will work. Which is any form of a tap where the player does not have control of the ball......he didn't have any control of that ball, he simply guided the direction of the orginial lob.

I only know the wordage used in the rule because of ESPN this morning.

and by the way, using your first to strike the ball has always been against the rules of basketbal. It was one of the game's original rules that has obviously faded away with time

12/21/2006 7:01:20 AM

Quote :

"Bobcats messed up when they picked all of the Carolina guys just to sell tickets, will take them a couple of years to rebound from that"

Fuck you and the Cowboys, GTFO

that tip was bull shit

they shouldnt have even been in the game in the first place though

12/21/2006 7:57:04 AM

yea it was a classic bobcats choke job, but at least they had the common decency to do it a quarter earlier than expected so it wasnt quite as upsetting.

12/21/2006 11:20:58 AM

Trent Tucker FTW!!!

12/21/2006 11:34:53 AM

yall remember when Baron Davis clearly got a 3-pointer off with .5 seconds left against the Magic in the playoffs a few years back and they didnt count it? well anyway

goin to see AK47 and Booze and them tonight...hopefully Mr. Morrison will play some of his yazz flute all through the net

12/22/2006 5:09:44 PM

^Yes and we still won that series and then lost to the Nets.

I guess we can go ahead and pencil in Brandan Wright and Tyler Hansbrough since we have 2 1st round picks next year.

12/22/2006 7:54:16 PM

hansbrough not so much, but wright would be tremendous. its just too bad there's not a go to scorer from outside, because wright would make an excellent power forward with some added bulk or small forward if he improved his jumper

12/22/2006 10:41:20 PM

was at the game tonight, 5 rows behind Utah bench

we got boozer to react after heckling him all game

also got jake voshskul to laugh after he almost fought okur

12/23/2006 12:05:39 AM