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5 unusual facts about Charlotte Bobcats


Senegal national basketball team

Over the years, the national team has included several players who have competed in the U.S. National Basketball Association, including former Charlotte Bobcats center DeSagana Diop, and is considered to be, along with those of Nigeria and Angola, a top African side.

Somerdale, New Jersey

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (born 1993), professional basketball player with the Charlotte Bobcats.

Time Warner Cable News North Carolina

From 2005 to 2008, News 14 was the cable home of the Charlotte Bobcats.

WMYT-TV

WMYT was the over-the-air home for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats from 2006 until the team moved all of its broadcasts to cable after the 2007-08 season.

WOLS

WOLS was the flagship station for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats from the team's debut in 2004 through the 2008-2009 season.


Del Harris

On July 3, 2008, the Chicago Tribune reported that Harris agreed to become an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls along with former Charlotte Bobcats head coach Bernie Bickerstaff and longtime NBA assistant Bob Ociepka.

Falcons–Panthers rivalry

That moniker, however, has no real connection to games played between the NBA's Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Bobcats, as these two franchises regrettably have no real rivalry; the Hawks to some extent were rivals of the Charlotte Hornets from 1988–2002, before the team moved to New Orleans (the New Orleans team is now known as the Pelicans, the current Charlotte teams is expected to assume the Hornets nickname in 2014).

Jeff Capel III

His father is basketball coach Jeff Capel II, former assistant coach for the Charlotte Bobcats and former head coach at Old Dominion University, and his younger brother Jason played basketball at Duke's biggest rival, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently head basketball coach at Appalachian State University.


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