Bobcats ticket promotion for ATL, HOU and DET home games

[Carl Spackler]

All upper level seats are $5. Don't know if everyone already knew about this or not, but if you go to Ticketmaster and un-check "Sprite Family Nights" and ""Full Price Ticket" then for the next three home games, every upper level seat will set you back just $5. :)

[MadHatter]

I would not even pay $5 and parking to see this team....they are God Awful.

Only way I go is with free seats in our Corp Suite.....free food and an open bar.

[pantherfan49]

the good news is that they are this bad in a shortened season.

I was looking over the starting roster and asked myself which of any of the players are in the top 15 of the NBA for their position and the only one that I could even hold my nose and say yes to was DJ Augustine....

[TheMostInterestingMan]

I got tickets to Houston next week. Also, MadHatter must not understand that there is no shame in supporting your team even at their worst. At least, thats what real fans do. Lastly, I have never been a big DJ Augustin fan, but he has reallly been playing well so far this season.

[MadHatter]

I got tickets to Houston next week. Also, MadHatter must not understand that there is no shame in supporting your team even at their worst. At least, thats what real fans do. Lastly, I have never been a big DJ Augustin fan, but he has reallly been playing well so far this season.

I was a HUGE Hornets fan when they were here.

After watching Shinn and the NBA totally fug Charlotte, I now can't stand the NBA.

We screwed up by giving the franchise oroginally to Johnson (was a joke of an owner). Now we have Jordan running the show....and he has always been poor at business and running an organization....From hiring his buddies as coach to drafting terribly....to making trade proposals (only to back out of them when everyone tells them how stupid they are)...he has shown that he will always be a terrible owner.

The Bobcats are in a small market.....and are thus at a disadvantage. They need to do things better than the Big Boys to succeed. And, MJ has NEVER proven that he has the decision making capabilities off the court to get that done.

[cbarrier90]

The Bobcats are in a small market.....and are thus at a disadvantage. They need to do things better than the Big Boys to succeed. And, MJ has NEVER proven that he has the decision making capabilities off the court to get that done.

That's why MJ is no longer making the decisions. He's hired Rich Cho, the guy who built what we now know as the OKC Thunder.

The plan for this season is to essentially "de-toxify" the team of the bad contracts that were taken on for the playoff run of a few seasons ago and start anew. The three awful contracts I like to pinpoint are Diaw, Carroll, and the granddaddy of them all, Diop.

Until those contracts are no longer on the books, the "hope" is that we suck long enough to garner enough high, impact draft picks that we can become a young, competitive team (ala the OKC Thunder, or, if you want to make a football comparison, the Detroit Lions.) That is, essentially, the ONLY way small markets can be competitive in this NBA environment. Is it fair? No. But it's what we've got to deal with.

[pantherfan49]

That's why MJ is no longer making the decisions. He's hired Rich Cho, the guy who built what we now know as the OKC Thunder.

The plan for this season is to essentially "de-toxify" the team of the bad contracts that were taken on for the playoff run of a few seasons ago and start anew. The three awful contracts I like to pinpoint are Diaw, Carroll, and the granddaddy of them all, Diop.

Until those contracts are no longer on the books, the "hope" is that we suck long enough to garner enough high, impact draft picks that we can become a young, competitive team (ala the OKC Thunder, or, if you want to make a football comparison, the Detroit Lions.) That is, essentially, the ONLY way small markets can be competitive in this NBA environment. Is it fair? No. But it's what we've got to deal with.

I think only Diaw's contract comes off of the books this year (as does Najera). Diop and Carroll are still on the books for another 2 seasons.

You might think that Cho is running the show, but I cannot believe that he wanted to draft Kemba, especially when Brandon Knight was available. That smelled of MJ falling in love with a player and putting the blinders on.

[Carl Spackler]

Knight went 8th. They wanted Walker and Biyombo.

[pantherfan49]

Knight went 8th. They wanted Walker and Biyombo.

and do you really think someone else was going to take Biyombo in the top 10? Hell no.

[Carl Spackler]

and do you really think someone else was going to take Biyombo in the top 10? Hell no.

Detroit was enamored with him.

[pantherfan49]

Detroit was enamored with him.

Did MJ's press team leak that rumor?

[MadHatter]

That's why MJ is no longer making the decisions. He's hired Rich Cho, the guy who built what we now know as the OKC Thunder.

The plan for this season is to essentially "de-toxify" the team of the bad contracts that were taken on for the playoff run of a few seasons ago and start anew. The three awful contracts I like to pinpoint are Diaw, Carroll, and the granddaddy of them all, Diop.

Until those contracts are no longer on the books, the "hope" is that we suck long enough to garner enough high, impact draft picks that we can become a young, competitive team (ala the OKC Thunder, or, if you want to make a football comparison, the Detroit Lions.) That is, essentially, the ONLY way small markets can be competitive in this NBA environment. Is it fair? No. But it's what we've got to deal with.

I do hope that Cho can help get this turned around and rid the team of toxic contracts.

There is hope....it is just going to be a painful journey to get there.

[thatlookseasy]

I think only Diaw's contract comes off of the books this year (as does Najera). Diop and Carroll are still on the books for another 2 seasons.

You might think that Cho is running the show, but I cannot believe that he wanted to draft Kemba, especially when Brandon Knight was available. That smelled of MJ falling in love with a player and putting the blinders on.

Come on man, if youre going to trash the Bobcats at least follow the team a little bit. Rich Cho is definitely calling the shots, he is the one who wanted Biyombo so bad that he took him at 7 over Knight. It was widely reported around draft time, here is an article if youre interested

http://www.salisburypost.com/Sports/062511Bobcats-qcd

Cho leaving his mark early on Bobcats

CHARLOTTE — Rich Cho was still general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers when he went to Spain last month to look at a player who had intrigued him on video and at a recent camp.

Cho watched the lanky Bismack Biyombo of Congo work out, had dinner with him, met with his agent and left for home convinced the Blazers had to try to move up in the draft to take the relatively obscure 18-year-old big man.

That organization turned out to be the Bobcats. After getting fired by Portland and quickly hired for the same job by Charlotte last week, Cho went into overdrive to persuade owner Michael Jordan to gamble on the athletic shot-blocker.

Cho’s hard sell led to the three-team trade that sent top scorer Stephen Jackson to Milwaukee Thursday so the Bobcats could acquire the seventh pick from Sacramento.

"He was definitely who we targeted,” Cho said of Biyombo. “All the intel we acquired we really felt that Detroit was going to take him at eight so we had to get ahead of them at seven.”

Charlotte then took another Cho favorite, Connecticut point guard Kemba Walker, two picks later in a clear sign of Cho’s immediate and strong influence within Jordan’s suddenly new-look franchise.

Edit: and another

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/31/2890042/biyombos-famous-animated-answer.html

[Carl Spackler]

Did MJ's press team leak that rumor?

http://www.pistonpowered.com/2011/05/ryan-feldman-pistons-very-high-on-bismack-biyombo-jazz-want-point-guard/