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    <description>Latest news and information about the Charlotte Bobcats.</description>
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      <title>Report: Sloan to meet with Bobcats' officials Friday (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Former Utah Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said he is scheduled to talk to Charlotte Bobcats officials on Friday about the Bobcats' head coaching vacancy, SI.com reported Thursday.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 20:20:09 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>AP Source: Bobcats to interview Sloan on Friday (The Associated Press)</title>
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      <description>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A person familiar with the situation says the Charlotte Bobcats will interview Hall of Famer Jerry Sloan on Friday for their vacant head coaching position.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 19:40:24 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>NBA roundup: Pacers president Larry Bird calls his team soft (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>The worst playoff loss in Indiana Pacers franchise history had team president Larry Bird calling out his players, according to an Indianapolis Star report.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:15 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sloan expresses interest in coaching vacancies (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Jerry Sloan wants to coach again and is interested in the vacancies with the Charlotte Bobcats and Orlando Magic, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 08:11:13 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Should the Chicago Bulls Trade Luol Deng or Joakim Noah? Fan's Opinion (Yahoo! Contributor Network)</title>
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      <description>I'll tell you what, for a team that went 50-16 --and had very legitimate reasons for being knocked out in the first round of the playoffs-- there are a lot of questions surrounding the future of the Chicago Bulls. Honestly, I hadn't really thought about those questions until I read Sam Smith's latest article concerning that very thing. He offers two directions the Bulls can go as they wait for their prized superstar --Derrick Rose-- to return from injury. As of now, the Bulls are hoping for a mid-to-late season return.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:23:00 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Adam Morrison looks great, everyone (Ball Don't Lie)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["Hey, I wonder how Adam Morrison's doing these days," you said to your cat earlier this afternoon. "Not sure why I'm thinking of him now, after not really thinking about him much since the Lakers let him go a couple of years back, but you know, I'd kind of like to know what he's up to ... or, I mean, even just see him, I guess. It's been too long!" 
 Your wish, as always, is our command: 
 
 Looking great, Adam Morrison! I see you have been very busy since last we saw you listening to Dio and working on your fingertapping and/or performing twice nightly in dark matches at Pacific Northwest wrestling shows as "The Fauxndertaker." Not sure how well that will translate to being sharp in the pick-and-roll, but if any general manager would just take like three minutes to hear you rip through "Holy Diver" and/or check out your Tombstone, I'm sure you'd be back on the floor in no time. 
 This life-affirming photo of Morrison — the NCAA's co-Player of the Year during his junior season at Gonzaga who was drafted No. 3 overall by Michael Jordan's Charlotte Bobcats in 2006 and soon plummeted to the depths of bustdom thanks to an inability to create his own shot against NBA defenders, a severe left knee injury and the fact that he was chosen ahead of Brandon Roy, Rudy Gay, Rajon Rondo and Paul Millsap (among others) — was taken Monday morning by SNY.tv's Adam Zagoria . We here at BDL share our unending thanks with Mr. Zagoria for bringing this ray of sunlight into a dreary (in Brooklyn, at least) Monday afternoon. 
 [Also: LeBron delivers epic performance after reading 'The Hunger Games' ] 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:15:21 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>NBA: Oden having surgery in hopes of reviving career (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Former No. 1 NBA draft pick Greg Oden reportedly has undergone a controversial procedure to try to kick-start his waning basketball career.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:50:12 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report: Ewing has 'good chance' to be Bobcats  coach (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Orlando Magic assistant coach Patrick Ewing reportedly has a "good chance" of getting the Charlotte Bobcats head coaching job.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:30:11 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>AP Source: Bobcats interviewing Ewing Thursday (The Associated Press)</title>
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      <description>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Two people familiar with the situation say the Bobcats will interview Orlando assistant Patrick Ewing on Thursday in Charlotte for their vacant head coaching position.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:37:48 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Report: Bobcats to interview Ewing (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing will interview Thursday for the Charlotte Bobcats' coaching vacancy, according to an ESPN.com report.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:50:07 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hawks head toward an uncertain future (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>The summer of uncertainty began officially for Hawks the moment they walked off that floor in Boston in Game 6, losers in a win-or-go-home playoff game that they knew would signal the end of an era.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:50:10 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>AP Sources: Bobcats to interview Ewing next week (The Associated Press)</title>
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      <description>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Patrick Ewing is one of several candidates the Charlotte Bobcats will interview for their head coaching vacancy and the Hall of Fame center will meet with team officials next week, said people familiar with the situation.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:58:17 PDT</pubDate>
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      <description>The Bobcats have lined up interviews with assistant coaches Patrick Ewing and Mike Malone to fill their coaching vacancy.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 21:01:50 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>NBA roundup: Odom won't get playoff share from Mavericks (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Lamar Odom remained on the Dallas Mavericks' roster through the end of their 2011-12 season, but he won't get any of the team's playoff money.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:10:30 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Warriors give Bobcats permission to interview Malone (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Longtime NBA assistant Michael Malone could get his first shot as a head coach, as the Golden State Warriors have given the Charlotte Bobcats permission to interview their assistant coach for the team's vacant head coaching position.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 13:20:19 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Capel family of coaches savoring 76ers' success (The Associated Press)</title>
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      <description>The Capel coaching family is savoring every NBA playoff win by the Philadelphia 76ers.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:40:08 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Allen Iverson&#x2019;s infamous &#x2018;practice&#x2019; rant, 10 years later (Ball Don't Lie)</title>
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 It was a frustrating end to a frustrating season, and it created possibly the most famous end-of-season press conference of all time, if not the most famous press conference in NBA history. Allen Iverson, in the days following his Philadelphia 76ers' first-round exit, was more than upset at coach Larry Brown's contention that Iverson's lacking practice habits may have cost Philadelphia a chance at another Finals appearance, so he went off on the local media. In an infamous rant, he treated the word and premise of "practice" as if it were as inconsequential as choosing Gatorade over water or choosing fish over chicken as a pregame meal. 
 And all of it took place 10 years ago — May 7, 2002. 
 Ostensibly, Iverson's frustrations were taken out on longtime Philadelphia Daily News beat writer Phil Jasner, who was following up on coach Brown's specific criticism of both Iverson's practice habits and refusal to participate in some practices as he worked through the myriad injuries resultant from the combination of his aggressive play and wispy frame. And though Iverson took great delight in singling out Jasner (calling him "Phillip" repeatedly, in a typical bully move), his real anger was directed at Brown, clearly, and what he apparently thought was an anachronistic ideal that drew a direct line between all-out play in practice, and success on the court in games that mattered in the win/loss column. 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:50:30 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Charlotte Bobcats season tickets could be as low as $43 next season (Ball Don't Lie)</title>
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 Everybody knows that the Charlotte Bobcats are really, really bad. They set a record for the lowest winning percentage in NBA history during this 66-game season, and the current roster doesn't seem to have many players capable of becoming solid NBA starters. It's going to take a while for things to improve. 
 Help could be on the way in the NBA Draft, though, especially if the Bobcats win the lottery and land a potential linchpin in Kentucky big man Anthony Davis. But winning the lottery wouldn't just make Charlotte a better team &#x2014; it could also save their fans some money. Under a new promotion, the cost of each game in a Bobcats season-ticket package will be tied to their draft position. From Andrew Dunn of the Charlotte Observer (via SLAM ):</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:53:32 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tyson Chandler is the NBA&#x2019;s Defensive Player of the Year, and our best attempt to know the game better (Ball Don't Lie)</title>
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 Tyson Chandler won the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year award on Wednesday , as Yahoo! Sports' Marc J. Spears first reported on Tuesday evening, and the New York Knicks center has more than earned the honor. The veteran big man was gracious in his acceptance, calling his singular recognition more of "a team thing" during the press conference announcing his selection, while tweeting later on that he was "blessed" to be the first Knick in the team's longstanding defensive history to be given the award. 
 Chandler has seemed to be the runaway winner for a few months now, especially since Orlando Magic center (and three-time winner) Dwight Howard seemed to flake out more and more. This allowed The Basketball Jones' Trey Kerby, in a pitch-perfect column , to point out the fact that Howard's team-based and individual defensive stats were actually on par or better than Chandler's in several instances, and that Howard (even in an off year of his own design) may still have been a victim of voter fatigue, 12 missed games, and his own submarining of Orlando's season. Trey's correct, even as he points out that Chandler deserved the award. 
 With that point in place, it's probably best to move on to another surprising element of Chandler's turnaround, and one that tends to get lost as we tend to stay in the day-to-day realm of the NBA's shifts and feints. Tyson Chandler was always supposed to be at that podium, accepting that award. Then he wasn't. Then he was, again. Then he definitely wasn't. Though Chandler probably doesn't want to look upon this honor as a culmination and/or peak moment in his career, especially at just 29 years of age, he should be proud at what he's had to overcome just to become the first Defensive Player of the Year in Knick history. 
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 15:35:13 PDT</pubDate>
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      <description>(Reuters) - Paul Silas was fired as head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday after leading the eight-year-old franchise to the National Basketball Association's worst-ever record and a search for his successor is underway.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:45:05 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>NBA roundup: Celtics' Rondo suspended 1 game for bumping referee (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>Boston Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo has been suspended one game for bumping into referee Marc Davis while arguing a call in Sunday's game against the Atlanta Hawks. The three-time All-Star will miss Tuesday night's game, the second in the best-of-seven series.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:40:11 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Silas dumped as coach of hapless Bobcats (AFP)</title>
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      <description>Paul Silas will not return as coach of the NBA Charlotte Bobcats after the team struggled to a 7-59 record in the worst season by any club in NBA history, the team announced on Monday.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:06:58 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bobcats: Coach Paul Silas not returning next year (The Associated Press)</title>
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      <description>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) The worst team in NBA history will have a new coach next season.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:21:49 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Paul Silas, Charlotte Bobcats part ways, beginning a very interesting coaching search (Ball Don't Lie)</title>
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 Coming off perhaps the worst regular season in NBA history, the Charlotte Bobcats announced Monday that head coach Paul Silas would not return to coach the team during the 2012-13 NBA season. 
 Rod Higgins, Charlotte's president of basketball operations, announced the separation — it's not a firing, per se, as Silas' contract ran out at the end of the season — in a press release , saying that the "search for [Silas'] successor will begin immediately." 
 "I would like to personally thank Paul for everything he has done for this team under some pretty unique circumstances," Higgins said. "His basketball experience as a coach and a player speak for themselves. We have been fortunate to have someone of his character associated with this franchise and we hope he will continue to be a valuable resource to us in the future." 
 During a Monday afternoon press conference, Silas thanked the Bobcats for the opportunity and said he would not pursue another head-coaching job. 
 "It's time to move on and I'm OK with that," Silas said, according to the Bobcats' official Twitter feed . 
 Silas said he was offered an as-yet undefined consulting role with the team, though most outside observers would likely suggest that the best thing for him, now that he is without a contract, is to run away from the Charlotte Bobcats as fast as your 68-year-old legs can take you . 
 Higgins didn't set a timetable for a hire to be made, but did say the front office is "going to start as soon as this [press conference] is over." General manager Rich Cho said the ideal candidate for the team's head coach would be "someone [...] who wants to be here and [the] opportunity to be part of building this team up going forward." 
 That raises an interesting question: Who the hell wants this job? 
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:00:22 PDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Silas out as Bobcats coach (The SportsXchange)</title>
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      <description>With a .106 winning percentage in the 2011-12 season, the Charlotte Bobcats made NBA history. Now, head coach Paul Silas is history.</description>
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