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DieSlow69 · 12-09-2006, 05:07 PM

Well I just figured out how to get to our forum. LOL I thought I was going to the wrong one. What happended to the old format. Anyways though

I hope we lose the rest of our games and get a high place in the draft. I wouldnt mind getting Foye either and watching A.I. play with KG. I still love the sixers and hope BK and the other idiots in Philly management get some younguns and some draft picks

undefined_playa · 12-11-2006, 09:37 AM

Imo the most realistic place Iverson should end up is in Minny (despite the statements made that they can't afford him) or New York. I would be so happy if he ends up in Minny though...INSTANT TOP 5 TEAM IN THE L

**darth-horax** · 12-11-2006, 09:45 AM

NY is almost destined to get him.

If they didn't trade Marbury or Francis, the backcourt would be a circus.

**Sliccat** · 12-11-2006, 12:30 PM

All of this talk really saddens me. Except for Minnesota and Chicago, they just put Iverson in the same place he's in with Philly.

**Coatesvillain** · 12-11-2006, 03:04 PM

I'm really starting to wonder how much actual interest there is in Iverson. It's getting scary.

**Dre™** · 12-11-2006, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Sliccat

All of this talk really saddens me. Except for Minnesota and Chicago, they just put Iverson in the same place he's in with Philly.

Word is King doesn't care about trying to send him to a winner. I always knew talk like that was BS. It's cute to say, but once you're in that situation you're just trying to get the best deal for you. It still pisses me off that the sixers don't care enough about him to send him to a good situation. What the hell are they doing talking to the Blazers...

melo4life · 12-11-2006, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by darth-horax

Nene, Andre Miller for AI and Dalembert?

Maybe...

i dont think that the sixers would except that, even though i would like that i dont think it gonna happen

Tha Freak · 12-11-2006, 03:47 PM

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The Charlotte Bobcats have inquired about Allen Iverson's availability, and they might make an offer for the superstar guard now that the Philadelphia 76ers say they'll trade him.

"We made some inquiries if it was real," coach-general manager Bernie Bickerstaff told the Observer on Saturday. "Michael (Jordan) and I plan to sit down and chat" about whether to make an offer.

Jordan, the former NBA superstar, is part-owner of the Bobcats and oversees basketball operations. Bickerstaff said Jordan plans to be in Charlotte today for the team's home game against the Phoenix Suns.

The relationship between Iverson and the Sixers has tattered, apparently beyond repair. Ed Snider, chairman of the media company that owns the Sixers, told Philadelphia reporters Friday that they plan to trade Iverson, at his request.

Snider said Iverson has probably played his last game with the Sixers, adding that about half of the NBA's 30 teams have inquired about the player's availability.

It's obvious why the Bobcats would find Iverson interesting: The 6-foot guard's 31.2-point scoring average is second to the 31.7 points Denver's Carmelo Anthony scores this season.

The Bobcats are coming off their worst scoring and shooting game ever, a 92-62 loss to the Houston Rockets in which Charlotte shot 28 percent. Bickerstaff says the team's greatest need is a go-to scorer, to raise the game of various complementary players.

Despite his lack of size, Iverson annually is among the league's elite scorers. However, he's always been a high-maintenance player, clashing with coaches and demonstrating an occasional reluctance to practice.

The Bobcats have placed heavy importance on character in player-personnel decisions.

Iverson not practicing Thursday was apparently the deciding factor in him not playing during Friday's 15-point loss to the Washington Wizards.

"If Allen feels that he doesn't want to practice and then he wants to play, it just doesn't work any longer," Snider said in an interview with Comcast SportsNet.

"I think it's time for him to move on and for us to move on and find out where everything stands. I really didn't see it coming, because Allen says all the right things, and I thought he really was behind (coach) Mo (Cheeks) and what we were trying to accomplish, but obviously he's not."

The Bobcats have numerous young players and potentially high draft picks to assemble an offer if they choose. They would also have to absorb Iverson's remaining salary -- a salary-cap figure of about $17 million this season, $19 million next season and $20 million the following season.

That would be challenging for any team, but the Bobcats have about $10 million in room under the salary cap -- more than any other team.

"We have not (made an offer) but we're going to sit down and talk about the logic" of whether to do so, Bickerstaff said. "The other question is what do they want" to make a deal.

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**Coatesvillain** · 12-11-2006, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by _Dre_

Word is King doesn't care about trying to send him to a winner. I always knew talk like that was BS. It's cute to say, but once you're in that situation you're just trying to get the best deal for you. It still pisses me off that the sixers don't care enough about him to send him to a good situation. What the hell are they doing talking to the Blazers...

Really they aren't obligated to help him out especially if he's the one who demanded the trade.

I mean if a contender wanted him and offered the best deal that would be cool, but GM would be an even worse GM than he already is if he's solely worried about Iverson.

Tha Freak · 12-11-2006, 03:53 PM

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While 76ers team president Billy King sorely wants to deal the franchise player, Allen Iverson, he can't just give him away. No one in Philly can forget the Sixers only getting Jeff Hornacek, Andrew Lang and Tim Perry for Charles Barkley in 1992. And the Sixers traded Wilt Chamberlain to the Lakers in 1968 for Jerry Chambers, Archie Clark and Darrall Imhoff.

Still, team chairman Ed Snider said "half the league" had called about Iverson's availability.

While Iverson's maybe a half-step slower than he was 10 years ago, that's still a step quicker than most players in the league. Iverson leads the league in scoring with 31.2 points, averages 42.7 minutes and 2.2 steals.

King is close friends with Pacers CEO Donnie Walsh, making it likely those two talked about a deal (perhaps involving point guard Jamaal Tinsley).

Denver (with Andre Miller); Minnesota (with King fan Randy Foye); and even still the Celtics remain strong targets. Minnesota's Kevin Garnett and Boston's Paul Pierce openly have campaigned for their general managers to bring Iverson in, surely forming what might be a 1-2 punch toward the playoffs.

But could they fit? After all, Iverson never clicked with Jerry Stackhouse, Larry Hughes, Keith Van Horn or Glenn Robinson and couldn't win with Chris Webber.

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thatsnotgross · 12-11-2006, 03:53 PM

No, no one wants Nene. Denver was the only insane team that was willing to give that awful contract. Btw, I want to thank Denver for driving up the price last offseason. Good freaking god.

If Charlotte is willing to listen. I wonder if they are willing to trade a guy like Sean May, and a couple of first rounders.

As a knick fan, I don't know what the Knicks should do. Should they go after him, the Knicks could be a playoff team and that means James "Porn star look-a-like" Dolan will give Isiah Thomas a 4 year extension. If they don't, lets hope the Knicks keep racking up those losses.

I don't know what Philly front office or their fans want. Do they want a star in return or do they want to rebuild?

**Dre™** · 12-11-2006, 03:57 PM

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Really they aren't obligated to help him out especially if he's the one who demanded the trade.

Of course not, but it would've been a decent gesture not to talk to the worst teams in the league trying to dump him off.

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