FanHouse previews a player to watch from each NBA team in advance of the 2009-10 season.If you're attempting to put together a competing team without a superstar, you need a lynchpin. A guy who can do several things well, if no one thing brilliantly. Some opt for a point guard, some opt for a traditional big man. Larry Brown opted for Boris Diaw.
Since being traded to Charlotte last season, Diaw went from being the gap filler in Phoenix who could never quite fill the tank completely, to the lynchpin in Charlotte. The Bobcats came on strong at the end of the year, narrowly mising an oppotunity to lose to the Celtics in fewer games than the Bulls did. And if they're going to build on that success, Diaw is going to have to maintain his role on the Cats.
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Sean Deveney of The Baseline reports that Charlotte point guard
As teams get eliminated from the 2009 NBA playoff picture,
The Charlotte Bobcats have widely been considered a joke over the last five years for several reasons. Kind of a silly name. Already lost one franchise to New Orleans.
Every night there are some stupendous, silly, stupid, or downright outlandish individual lines from around the "lig."
Everybody remember
The Mavericks finally completed a long-rumored deal with Charlotte, but the eventual transaction looks more like an admission of a mistake than a potentially vital move.
How bad are things in Oakland? ESPN's Chris Broussard was
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