In baseball, there’s a man named Jack McKeon. He’s known in baseball circles as “Trader Jack.” He’s a retired manager who is the oldest manager to win a World Series. But what does all this have to do with the Bobcats? Well, Trader Jack is very similar to Michael Jordan.

Just a few days ago, we saw the Charlotte Bobcats play horrible basketball in Washington, D.C. but somehow come out with an overtime win over the Wizards, 95-86. There would be no overtime tonight, as the ‘Cats survived multiple attempts at a comeback by the Washington Wizards to win 107-96. The Bobcats earned their franchise-record 38th win, and are for the first time ever four games over .500%. The Wizards, however, set their own franchise record with their 14th consecutive loss. While it wasn’t pretty, it’s a win, and that means the magic number to make the playoffs is down to 7.

The Bobcats vs. the Wizards 3/23/10
It is difficult to say how far into the play-offs, if indeed they make the play-offs, this Bobcat team can go shooting this badly. Usually, when your field-goal shooting is 39.6%, your free-throw shooting is 64.7%, and your three-point shooting is 11.1%, you lose the game. The Bobcats dodged that with clutch defense, forcing the Wizards into 18 turn-overs, and a much needed thirty-second double-double from Gerald Wallace (17 points and 19 rebounds). Wallace played with energy throughout the game. All five …

The Wizards vs. the Bobcats 2/9/10
The Bobcats, after three straight loses, decided to right themselves against the Washington Wizards, (94-92). The ‘Cats pulled defense back out of the playbook and made it tough for the visiting Wizards. The ‘Cats had given up a generous 103.2 points over their last nine games. Finally they were able to hold a team for less (92 points) than their season average of 94.2ppg. The Wizards were held to a 43.2% field goal percentage for the game even though they took right more …

If the NBA draft lottery is fixed, what would be the results that would make David Stern the happiest? For this exercise we’ll focus on the teams 1 through 3.
Here we go.
1.  Oklahoma City Thunder - With the #1 pick this will allow the Thunder to draft (from their own backyard) Blake Griffin. Pairing Blake Griffin along with Kevin Durant solidifies their frontcourt (and their new fanbase) for the foreseeable future.

2.  New York Knicks - This will be the team that beats the long odds and moves way up the …

The Bobcats beat up on the Wizards last night to reach 21-31 entering the All-Star break. Raymond Felton had a strong game and was “this close” to a triple double, Emeka had yet another double-double ( the scorekeeper should just mark him down ahead of time for 14 and 11, those numbers are automatic for him ), DJ had another strong shooting 7-12 from the field with 4 threes for 24 points but best of all Vlad “The Impaler” Radmanovic went wild from the three point stripe hitting 5 of …

1. The removal of Sam Vincent and the hiring of Larry Brown.
Anytime you can move from this

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To This
 Then that alone is worth 6 or 7 wins by itself. Supposedly Sam was despised by the players, so much so that its rumored that they even locked him out the locker room at halftime of one of the games. As far as his coaching prowess, The man started Jeff McInnis at PG for the majority of the season… The discussion on Sam can end right there. Larry Brown has his …

The Charlotte Bobcats face the Washington Wizards tonight at 7pm. Agent Zero is out, Caron Butler is a game time decision and most importantly we finally have a starting center not named Primoz…. I like our chances.

Theres no TV locally for tonight’s game, so you can follow the action in our game thread or in our chat room . If you want to follow it from the enemy’s The Wizard’s perspective  you should check out

Washington Wizards Blog or Bullets Forever  

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A member of our forum submitted this great story of his experience at Wednesday night’s Bobcats/Wizards game.

So I was sitting up in the rafters like I do every game and I see Mr.
Whitfield looking up into the stands. I wave to him to say what’s up,
and he motions for me to come over. When I get to the portal he gives
me a $300 dollar ticket front row center court. He said this is my
seat, you should have it….thanks for the support.
I will buy Bobcat season tickets for the rest of …

There have been several articles written in the last few days about Gilbert Arenas supposedly cheating at Halo 3. Here are a few for you to look at: AOL Fanhouse, Truehoop, Give Me the Rock and Gilbertology.

What would make someone go through all of the trouble to use multiple accounts and staging multiple phony games just to boost their ranking? Its pretty simple actualy… Gilbert is doing everything within his power to avoid the inevitable beatdowns and repeated humiliation that he would have to live with if he ran into …

Oy, again with the Wizards…These sorcerers from the magical land of Washington come back more times than Gandalf the Grey.  At least they were in their regular uniforms this time (I’m sorry, but those gold-and-black monstrosities are All Time-level ugly; they would have made crowds squirm in 1975).  Commentator/Reverend Henry Williams was also back to rock the microphone after what I assume were some faith-based absences.  Meanwhile, Matt Devlin has armed himself with some Spanish-related humor (you can never go wrong there), busting out with “La Garra!” (“the claw”), his …

I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.  Now that baseball season has started, I’m feeling completely overwhelmed.  I’ve got the out-of-market package on my computer (because of course it’s not available on TV to cable owners—have you heard Bud Selig’s responses when he’s asked about this?  Don’t do it without a washcloth and some Q-tips, because his answers are so slimy that you’re actually going to need to clean the ooze out of your ears afterwards).  I wish that either MLB could hold off …

Open Memo to CNN.com: Your top two headlines currently read “Iraqis Brace for Saddam Execution” and “Colorado Braces for New Blizzard.” I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before we hear about “California Bracing for Ford Funeral.” Let’s go, CNN headline department, you’re putting forth a Vince-Carter-in-Toronto effort right now. I know you’ve got a “Thesaurus” function on your Word program, so make use of it.
Anyway, the Charlotte Bobcats braced for the Washington Wizards on Wednesday. The Wizards, fresh off beheading the Memphis Grizzlies the night before, …