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Bobcats attempt to land Brook Lopez falls short

Bobcats pursuit of Brook Lopez looks to be coming to an end according to report from Yahoo Sports that suggests Nets and Lopez are closing in on a 5-year, $78 million max contract.

Y! Sources: Brooklyn raises guarantees on max offer to Brook Lopez, clock ticking on chance to do Howard deal. yhoo.it/NhCZTU

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Bobcats interested in J.J. Hickson

Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer reported today that J.J. Hickson’s agent, Andy Miller, confirmed that the Bobcats did indeed have interest in the free agent who played the remainder of last season with the Portland Trail Blazers.

However, shortly after Bonnell’s tweet Sam Amico of Fox Sports Ohio reported that he had spoken [...]

BOOM: Bobcats must roll with pick on offense – TrueHoop Blog

A stats heavy look at the Bobcats needs and who might fill them on draft night from ESPN:

It’s obvious the Charlotte Bobcats were a bad team, but why were so historically awful? And how can they address their flaws in the NBA Draft?PICK-AND-ROLL BALL-HANDLERSThe two most utilized offensive play types for the Bobcats [...]

REPORT: Mike Dunlap has agreed to become Bobcats head coach

Per Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer, Mike Dunlap has agreed to become the next head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats.

The initial reaction around the league definitely comes with some shock to this news, but there’s also plenty of validity to it.

Dunlap has coached at eight different colleges and two professional organizations [...]

Bobcats workout Beal and Kidd-Gilchrist

Today the Bobcats worked out two of the prospects that they’ll likely seriously consider with the 2nd overall pick, Bradley Beal and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The two did go up against each other today on offense and defense.

“It was cool. We were laughing and joking around, but competing at the same time,” said Beal [...]

Early look at 2012-13 promotional materials

Here is the banner and motto the Bobcats used for the 2011-12 season (in what was regarded around the internet as acknowledgement of tanking – see SBNation’s List of Worst NBA Slogans):

Here is one suggestion for next season: (And yes, I’m still terrible with [...]

BOOM: Alt-history: Michael Jordan comes back to help the Charlotte Bobcats| The Basketball Jones

You guys are not going to BELIEVE what I’m hearing this MJ presser is gonna be about.

via Alt-history: Michael Jordan comes back to help the Charlotte Bobcats avoid infamy | The Basketball Jones | Blogs | theScore.com.

NBA Draft Lottery- 8:00 PM ET Wednesday on ESPN.

The highly anticipated NBA draft lottery is now just two days away for the Bobcats organization and it’s fans. It seems that the chatter has been about the coveted number one overall pick for months now, almost as if it’s already in our possession. That, though unfortunate, is far from the truth and history [...]

Sacramento Kings ‘Small Market, Big Heart’ Documentary

‘Small Market, Big Heart’ is a film made for the city of Sacramento and their passionate fans of the only professional franchise in the city, the Kings.

James Ham, who covers the Kings for the ESPN TrueHoop network ‘Cowbell Kingdom’ is the producer of the film and as you’ll see after watching, has done [...]

BOOM: MullensMafia from the comments FTW

This was a comment by MullensMafia on the post Reasons for Optimism in a Depressing Time and I wanted to make sure all readers saw it.

Ok let’s be honest. Since Richard Cho came to town the soon to be Hornets have been on a path to legitimacy and we won’t get there until [...]