There are many good ways to spend a Saturday evening. Unfortunately for us Bobcats fans, none of those ways involved anything that happened in last night’s Bobcats game.
For starters, we had Emeka Okafor come back to town. Emeka is a nice guy, and to be honest with you he was one of my favorite players during his time as a Bobcat. With that being said, it was more than a little bit painful watching him put up 16 points, 7 rebounds, 2 blocked shots and 1 steal while playing solid …

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value”  - Thomas Paine
In an 82 game …

espn.com’s Marc Stein is reporting that the Bobcats have shipped Raja Bell and Vladamir Radmonovic to the Golden State Warriors in return for Stephen Jackson and Acie Law.
Jackson had been disgruntled to say the least in Golden State and I believe he had been Keyshawned. The Warriors are still playing Nellie ball and Jackson didn’t fit well and was demanding a trade.
Acie Law is that ever illusive 3rd point guard that Larry Brown covets, although he hasn’t made great waves in the league, he is a servicable back up …

I love the movie Bull Durham.  Kevin Costner calls Tim Robbins “meat” the whole time.  You know what he means but “Nuke” doesn’t.  My old roommate and I started calling Chuck James from the Braves “Meat” a couple years ago.  Every time he’d step out there it was like, “How long before somebody just rocks him and he’s got that holy-crap-did-that-just-happen-AGAIN looks on his face?”  You just knew the guy was set up to lose or something but you knew he had a few flashes or hopefully wouldn’t be out …

Rick Bonnell reports here that it is a done deal and will become official Tuesday morning.
There are 3 people who have averaged a double-double in each of the last 5 seasons:

Tim Duncan
Dwight Howard
Emeka Okafor

That’s the list… Chandler has done it once in his entire career.
In the forums, fans are less than happy with this deal because it has this the stench of Bob Johnson dumping salary.
Me… Well, I’m completely baffled how this deal will make us a better team and get us closer to making the playoffs next season.
If you …

It’s official, We are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Group Hug anyone??? Ewwww… Maybe not.
The problems that we had against the Thunder tonight were really a microcosm of the ones that have popped up this season.
Problem #1 - Raymond Felton’s shooting. He was 4-16 from the floor tonight and 40.4% from the field and 28.6% from three point range so far this season. This is even more troubling because Ray leads the team in attempts per game and normally takes the shot when the game is on the line. …

It was a rough night for Greg. First he had to deal with getting posterized by Emeka Okafor.

 
Next on the list of bad things to happen to 7
foot rookies who can pass for 47 years old: Greg goes up for a dunk and gets his shot blocked by Adam Morrison.
 
Yes, you read that right.
 
The final humiliation in Greg’s night was the highlight reel dunk that Gerald Wallace graced him with.
 
It was truly a thing of beauty. Enjoy.
 

 
All in all it was a good night for the Bobcats, …

I’ve been thinking, Maybe having a team full of nice guys and solid citizens isn’t the best way to build a roster. Sure Emeka Okafor, Sean May, Gerald Wallace and Jason Richardson are all nice upstanding guys but sometimes you need someone on your roster that your opponents are scared of. Not simply scared that you might drop 40 on them or turn them into a Sportscenter top 10 highlight, but scared that you might handle things outside of the “normal” parameters of an NBA game like our good friend …

Restricted free agent Emeka Okafor’s contract negotiations has been the primary topic of discussion for Bobcats fans for the past few weeks. So today we decided to bring you something completely different. Drumroll please…………….
The Emeka Okafor Photoshop Tribute
Pope-afor - I believe that Emeka would make a good Pope. I can guarantee you that Pope Benedict XVI can’t do this to Ronny Turiaf.

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News, rumor, lies, truths, half-truths and innuendo concerning the Emeka Okafor / Charlotte Bobcats contract negotiations which are rumored to be falling apart by the second.
Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer gives us a few sign and trade options in case a deal with Okafor cannot be worked out. How would Shawn Marion float your boat?
Rufus on Fire says ”do not trade Emeka at any costs”. He also says  that the main problem with people’s perception of Emeka is that he isn’t Dwight Howard… but then again, who is?
Over at Hoopsvibe, some uninformed …

As the season winds down and limps to a series of meaningless results, I thought I’d take a look at one of our most significant moves (or non-moves) of the upcoming off-season: what to do about Emeka Okafor. The two key numbers floating around the situation are his $5.4 million expiring contract and the $13 million dollar extension he refused at the start of the season. That was 4 months and another terrible-team-performance-in-a-mediocre-conference ago. Assuming the bridges haven’t been burnt between Okafor and management, Charlotte can still …

From the outside looking in, there seems to be something going on this season with the Charlotte Bobcats between Emeka Okafor and short-timer coach Sam Vincent. Also there seems to be friction between Emeka and point guard Raymond Felton. I have to give the Bobcats organization credit, if there is some sort of dysfunction or hostility going on it certainly hasn’t made it into our lazy assed local media.
via BobcatsPlanet member TheBeagle following Tuesday night’s loss to the Utah Jazz.
I think there’s not only …

I found some quality Youtubedness for you folks today. I’m not sure if my favorite part of this video was Emeka smothering Shaq’s dunk attempt, spiking Paul Pierce’s shot or cleaning swatting The Big Fundamental Tim Duncan… Judge for yourself.

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And he lives to tell about it. Read and Enjoy

Hey, even the crowd started to get into it in the final few minutes –
as opposed to numerous lulls in the action when there was legitimately
not a sound heard in the entire arena. Fortunately, for the super fans
3 rows in front of us, they made sure to scream loudly "Put Okafor In."
Then, quite a few folks in the crowd would laugh (from various corners
of the arena), Sam Vincent would look embarrassed and Morrison would
take an insulin shot behind the bench.

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In today’s Charlotte Observer Sam Vincent had this to say 

"We don’t need 26 3-point shots. We need to get to the rim," coach
Sam Vincent said of his Bobcats’ love affair with 25-footers. "We don’t
need jumpers when we’re trying to get the ball to Emeka."

That
would be center Emeka Okafor, who is shooting 54 percent from the field
this season. Not that his teammates recognize that. Okafor took all of
seven shots (making four).

Backup PG Jeff McInnis followed that comment up with this:

"I love playing with a big man. He makes things easy," …