Queen City King-2 month update + ASG!

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Poor Hornets, this was a devastating loss at New Orleans.

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Can Quincy Calloway be better than LeBron James? In his 2nd year he's ahead of LeBron's development


He is taller than LeBron James. He is longer than LeBron. He plays a relatively weak position in the NBA right now. Lets not forget he can shoot the ball and has an amazing post game with an array of moves, while having the same skills LeBron has in passing ability, vision, rebounding ability and everything under the sun. One of the bigger differences though is that we know already that Quincy has a killer instinct, LeBron still hasn't shown that in 9 seasons, this is only Quincy's second season.
He already has accomplished something LeBron even couldn't with the Cavs in his first six games. He's won every single one of them. The Cavs are off to their best start ever and Calloway has led the charge so far by averaging a ridiculous 35.7 ppg, which leads the NBA and leading the league in blocks at 2.2 per game and is fourth in steals at 1.7. Calloway was just announced as the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the second week in a row and is well on his way to Player of the Month and his first All-Star game selection at the tender age of 20.

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Mo' Scoring, Mo' Points


We're not even a month into the NBA season yet and we've already seen some remarkable performances from the NBA's top players! Starting in the second game of the season, Minnesota's Derrick Williams scored 49 points against the Phoenix Suns setting the NBA high for the season which many believed would last at least a few months. Then about a week later Quincy Calloway scored 46 points against the Washington Wizards and 44 points against the Golden State Warriors in consecutive games! Of course not to be outdone Amar'e Stoudemire came out a few nights later and scored his New York Knick high of 45 points against the Milwaukee Bucks. Then, last night, Kevin Durant walked into Oracle Arena with a look in his eye reminiscent of the all-time greats as he put up a career and franchise high 59 points! Durant's outburst now ties him with Quincy Calloway for the highest scoring average in the league at 35.7 ppg. If the scoring average stays this high throughout the season, it will be the highest points per game average since Michael Jordan led the league in 1987 at 37.1 ppg.

[Radioman]

Still a long way to go for Calloway but future seem to look bright for him.

I dont think anyone can beat Durants 59 points this season, maybe Kobe if he goes berserk.

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Yeah, still developing a way to use everyone on this team and I do have problems scoring sometimes with myself because of my attributes. Durant scoring 59 was a shock to my completely, I'll probably go for it later in the season

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New Orleans,LA--Former 2nd overall pick Emeka Okafor is being traded again, this time to the Washington Wizards. He along with swingman Trevor Ariza will be sent to the nation's capitol for the bloated contract of Rashard Lewis. The Hornets are expected to try to trade Lewis along to a team in need of cap relief for a solid role player, if they cannot find a trade they will keep Lewis until next off-season where they will have the option to buyout his contract for $14 million once again. Washington meanwhile is in a desperate effort to reshape their image and make a playoff chase in the East. With John Wall's rookie contract coming up, the Wizards are trying to build a winner around Wall that would entice him to stay in D.C.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press

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Jordan desperate for franchise player, will sale if team can't change fortunes


Michael Jordan apparently has an exit strategy to leave the Bobcats, which will undoubtedly make Charlotte fans take to the streets for a mass celebration, provided His Airness keeps his word.
Already 6-0 entering what appears to be another lost season as Bobcats owner, Jordan recently told his GM, Rich Cho, to try his best to acquire a franchise cornerstone to accelerate the rebuilding campaign. He also dropped a bombshell, telling Cho and other deputies that if this project can’t produce a winner and he continues to lose millions over the next “two to three years,” then he intends to sell the team.

“I told Rich to make us better and get someone the fans can get excited about,” Jordan told one associate recently. “If he can't get a player that we can build around, there's no way I can turn this franchise around in the next two to three years. I’m gonna have to sell.”

Jordan told Cho, the Thunder’s former assistant GM who arrived in Charlotte last season, to “follow the Oklahoma City model.”

Good luck with that, because there was some major luck involved in Oklahoma City’s ascension to the top of the Western Conference. The Thunder was most fortunate that Portland passed on Kevin Durant in the 2007 draft, instead opting to take Greg Oden with the top pick. The Blazers once passed on Jordan, and they might end up never living down their Oden pick.
Because Jordan has been such a failure as an owner — even drawing rare criticism recently from his best pal, Charles Barkley — there will be plenty of fans in Charlotte who hope this next rebuilding campaign is a flop. Just so that he sells and gets out of town.

[tsmoha]

Wow, awesome work on your layout! I will have to catch up to this story, but will for sure follow. Keep it going!

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Wow, awesome work on your layout! I will have to catch up to this story, but will for sure follow. Keep it going!

Thanks bro hope you continue to follow

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Wow those Cavs are playing some great ball

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Wow those Cavs are playing some great ball

Up until I ran into Chicago lol...also got a twist coming up in the story guys so be prepared

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Charlotte,NC--The Detroit Pistons have agreed to trade Ben Gordon and a 2013 protected first-round draft pick to the Charlotte Bobcats for Marcus Thorton.

Sources told ESPN.com the first-round pick going to Charlotte is lottery-protected in 2013, top-eight protected in 2014, top-one protected in 2015 and unprotected in 2016.

The deal provides significant long-term savings for the Pistons. Thorton is in the first year of his 3-year contract that pays him $5.9 million during the 2012-13 season.

Gordon has two years, $25.6 million left on his contract, giving the Pistons a long-term savings of $7.2 million.

Gordon averaged 13.4 points last season, including a 49-point outing against Charlotte. The NBA's Sixth Man of the Year in 2005 with Chicago spent three disappointing seasons in Detroit, averaging 12.4 points.

According to sources, the Bobcats expect Gordon to opt out of his final year so the team can acquire a top talent in next summers free-agent class. Apparently Chris Paul is the player Charlotte is aiming to land. Paul being a Winston-Salem native is nice as a hometown hero story, but without a significant improvement over the roster, Charlotte has no chance at luring Paul out of L.A.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press

[SuperHueyNewton]

I actually liked this trade in real life. We got rid of injured prone Corey Maggette (SpellCheck) and we got a decent guard out of Ben Gordon. We may win over ten to fifteen games this season, depending on how we do in the free agency this year also.

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I actually liked this trade in real life. We got rid of injured prone Corey Maggette (SpellCheck) and we got a decent guard out of Ben Gordon. We may win over ten to fifteen games this season, depending on how we do in the free agency this year also.

Yeah I actually like the move for Cha. in real life too that's why I wanted to tie it into my story somehow

[Radioman]

This big loss came a bit unexpected as you already dominated the season so far.

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Houston,TX--It's official, or as official as things can be in Houston GM Daryl Morey's world. The Houston Rockets are rebuilding.
Through a series of shake-em-ups now has the team dealing point guard Kyle Lowry to the Toronto Raptors for a future first-round pick. This follows the departure of fellow point man Goran Dragic who went back to Phoenix, and the addition of pretty much no one, but Micheal Redd and Samuel Dalembert during the off-season.

Somehow, Lowry's departure is both the most surprising and the most obvious of Houston's offseason machinations. The dogged point man made waves during the off-season by suggesting that he couldn't work under coach Kevin McHale, and that the team should look to trade him should Houston decide to hang on to the Hall of Fame (um, as a player …) coach. A rash of draft-related trade rumors sparked up, with one such line seemingly tossing the unhappy Lowry to the Toronto Raptors for Harrison Barnes after the draft. Instead, the Rockets waited until things fell apart, and sent Lowry away for … we don't know.

It's going to be a lottery pick, we know as much. Protected out of the lower 16 picks of the draft , in a move I cannot recall a mirrored one for in years of covering the NBA. It's also protected out of the top three next year, the top two in 2014 and 2015, and first overall in 2016. If the Raptors have a terrible time in the winnin' business over that span and luck out with those considerations, they'll also keep the pick. This is also where we remind you that Lowry has two years left on a contract that will pay him $12 million over that span (the final year the Raptors could even waive, should they decide to, and keep all but a million of the savings); a contract that might be the best value for production deal amongst NBA players that aren't on their initial rookie deals.

Lowry has been around since 2006, but he's only 26 even after six years of service. This puts him, like we mentioned with Goran Dragic as he scampered back to Phoenix, in the good-enough position of being old enough to be relied on by a young and flighty Toronto team, but young enough to be around (should the team extend him as a Raptor beyond 2014) if things finally pick up with a Raptor team that has made it out of the first round of the playoffs just once since the team's entrance into the NBA in 1995.
Sources say the Rockets will look to sign restricted free agent Aaron Brooks who was over in China last year.

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Brooklyn Acquires Joe Johnson from Hawks, Still after Howard


Brooklyn, New York-- In their continuing attempt to woo free-agent to be point guard Deron Williams, the Brooklyn Nets took another bold step on Monday, completing a deal with the Atlanta Hawks for All-Star guard Joe Johnson. As a bonus for the Nets, the deal was largely a cap-saving move for the Hawks, meaning Brooklyn was able to pull it off while keeping intact the team’s best young assets—center Brook Lopez, rookie MarShon Brooks and its own first-round pick.

Instead, according to NetsDaily.com, the team is giving up Manu Ginobli, Jordan Williams, DeShawn Stevenson and their 2013 second-rounder.

That’s a surprisingly insignificant pool of players for the Nets to surrender for Johnson, a six-time All-Star who averaged 18.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.9 assists this past season. But with Johnson having turned 31 this weekend, it was clear around the league that new Hawks general manager Danny Ferry wanted the remaining four years and nearly $90 million off the team’s books.

The Nets have already secured free-agent small forward Gerald Wallace over the summer with a 4 year $40 million contract. The Nets may have protected their best trade assets though.

Talks between the Nets and Magic regarding Howard are reportedly back on an Orlando Magic GM Rob Hennigan, who took over four months ago for Otis Smith, pulled no punches about Howard’s preferred destination, telling reporters on Monday, “Dwight mentioned he wanted to be traded and Brooklyn is where he wanted to go. … We are going to do what is in the best interests of his organization. We want guys who want to be here.”
Still, a league source told ESPN that the Magic and Nets remain “significantly apart,” on a trade for Howard, and Hennigan has yet to get offers that are anything close to what it would take to deal the star big man. Of course, Nets GM Billy King is well aware of Hennigan’s dilemma, and Howard’s insistence that he will only sign long-term with Brooklyn means that the Magic seriously lack leverage.

Even without Howard, the Nets, who came into this offseason determined to be a playoff team as they enter their new building in Brooklyn, have bolstered their fortunes with the acquisition of Johnson. Nothing has been settled when it comes to Williams, but the consensus among rival front offices is that the Nets would not be making any moves at this point without vetting them through Williams.

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This big loss came a bit unexpected as you already dominated the season so far.

Yeah Kind of didn't show up, surprise coming soon fellas

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[Radioman]

I hope the Thunder can make it this time.

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