The injury situation has become absolutely ridiculous. To put it in perspective, If a quality playoff team suffered the number of injuries and missed games that the Bobcats have had then it would more than likely ruin their playoff hopes and knock them down into the draft lottery. So if you take this level of injury problems and put it on a 2nd year expansion team such as the Bobcats, then they have absolutely no prayer to succeed.
At this point we should just focus on evaluating our young talent ( the talent that can stay healthy )because for the remainder of the season, our wins are going to be few and far between.

With the February 23^rd trade deadline looming, I am hopeful that Bernie Bickerstaff will bite the bullet and make a move. The biggest chips that he has to play are starting point guard Brevin Knight and power forward Melvin Ely.

Brevin Knight has been the subject of trade rumors all season, most recently with the Memphis Grizzlies. Knight would be of interest to many playoff caliber teams because he could be a solid backup to an established point guard or because of his improved jumper and solid ball handling he could log starter minutes if needed.

Why he is expendable: Raymond Felton, The Bobcats invested the 5^th pick in the 2005 draft in Felton, so there is absolutely no way that Knight gets significant minutes following this season.

Melvin Ely would also be an excellent addition to a playoff caliber roster, he is a fantastic low post scorer and a solid rebounder. In the NBA you can never EVER have too much low post scoring.

Why he is expendable: Emeka Okafor and Sean May: As much as the Bobcats claim that Sean May might be able to play multiple positions, and claim that Okafor can play a little center. The hard cold truth is that they are both power forwards and having a 3^rd quality power forward in Ely is a luxury that this team just can’t afford at this stage of their development. That along with his contract situation makes him a likely candidate to be moved.

Lets hope that the Bobcat’s front office looks at the big picture and tries to get something for either or both of these two players rather than keeping them on the roster just to salvage a few extra wins this season.

Its time to go ahead and give Raymond the starting point guard position. Yes, at this point in time Brevin Knight is the superior player, but Felton is not going to develop as a pro point guard and as the future floor general of this team getting a few minutes here and there backing up Brevin or minutes at shooting guard.

As noble as it is to give Brevin the minutes because for now he is giving the team the best chance to win now, The Charlotte Bobcats are not a threat to any of the playoff contenders this season, so lets give the bulk of the minutes to the players that are going to help us the most in the long haul

It appears that Kareem Rush is going to be out an extended period of time with another injury. This time around its a sprained finger… Not a broken finger, but a sprained finger thats going to keep him out for multiple games. His story is that anytime he gets hit on that finger that it hurts really bad, and that may well be the case, but when is the last time that you’ve seen Allan Iverson, Kobe Bryant or Dwayne Wade miss multiple games over such a trivial injury as this.
There is one positive to this though, It will give the Bobcats extended minutes for Bernard Robinson. Although he needs a lot of polish to his game, hes physical, aggressive, he can take the ball inside……. And I doubt that he would miss games over a sprained finger.