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Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: "This series gave Kobe Bryant his chip again, the star beginning it by losing a fight with a courtside chair but ending it by slugging Emeka Okafor. This series gave Pau Gasol his temper again, as he was ripped...

Tis the season to mess around with Chris Paul in the trade machine. The teams he'd reportedly like to play for are the Mavericks, Knicks, Blazers or Magic. The general thinking is that if you want to get Paul, you'll have to take on Emeka Okafor's...

By Marc Stein Jason Hart was going to be traded Tuesday by the Minnesota Timberwolves. The only question was where: New Orleans or Phoenix. As a story that appeared briefly on the Timberwolves' Web site earlier in the day confirmed, Minneso...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz NBA training camps are still a few weeks away, but rosters around the league are gradually taking shape. Once David Lee, Allen Iverson and Ramon Sessions have jobs, we'll be ready to go. The favorites in each conference...

ESPN's John Hollinger (Insider) can't believe anyone would trade Emeka Okafor for Tyson Chandler, and he makes a convincing case. Both players consistently have been honorable mentions in my all-defense picks, but Okafor is the superio...

Scott Fowler of The Charlotte Observer: "Despite the fact that Emeka Okafor has been more productive over his NBA career than Tyson Chandler, I've not been a huge Okafor fan for the past several years. I would argue that he never really impr...

LeBron James used to be the superstar doing his best with a marginal supporting cast -- now that man is Dwyane Wade. Meanwhile, the Thunder's supporting cast came up big in Dallas -- but the Lakers' laid an egg in Phoenix. The TrueHoop ...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Had a chance to trade emails with Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus during the live blog of the All-Star Game. Kevin rightfully pointed out that naming Mo Williams to replace Chris Bosh was the primary reason the East g...

Emeka Okafor is well ahead of Kobe Bryant in the Dallas Mavericks' proprietary statistical rankings, which Mark Cuban is blogging about. And Jason Kidd is second in the league. The core of the system is much like the adjusted plus/minus at Basket...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kurt from Forum Blue & Gold will have his eye on Jazz rookie Kosta Koufos during tonight's Lakers-Jazz game. Kurt cites David Thorpe's description of Koufos' arsenal: "Want to get an idea of how diversified Koufos' ...

Rick Bonnell tells us the Charlotte Bobcats had the worst shooting percentage in the NBA, at 71.4%, and missed 605 free throws last year. Emeka Okafor missed 161 all on his own, and also got hit hard again and again while trying to score, because no ...

Mike McGraw of the Arlington Heights Daily Herald: "The NBA's summer began with seven significant restricted free agents sitting around waiting for some action. Now with the start of training camp less than a month away, Luol Deng, Emeka Okafor, Josh...

During the shootaround, the Bobcat coaches kept harping on one particular theme: you big men -- do not front the post. As in, stay between your man and the basket. In the scramble to blitz, recover, and rotate, it is a very natural thing for a player...

Posted by Kelly Dwyer C: Emeka Okafor, Primoz Brezec PF: Walter Herrmann, Sean May SF: Gerald Wallace, Adam Morrison SG: Jason Richardson, Matt Carroll PG: Raymond Felton That's a good team. That could be a really good team. A trade or two, and...

If you have the patience, read through this lengthy transcript of a TV interview with Michael Jordan, from the official Bobcats site. Every single person quoted who isn't Michael Jordan--a list that includes Bob Johnson, Matt Devlin, Emeka Okafor, an...

Talking about, among other things, saving a million lives in Africa, by getting testing kits to weed out tainted blood used in transfusions. I was just talking about athletes getting political....