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NBA Betting Online: The Charlotte Bobcats were established in 2004 as an expansion team in the NBA. They are a member of the Eastern Conference's Southeast Division.
In their brief history, the Bobcats have accrued an overall win-loss record of 222-352. They have only qualified for the postseason once and have never won their division. Charlotte currently plays its home games at Time Warner Cable Arena
The city of Charlotte had an NBA team just two years prior to the Bobcats being founded. When the Hornets relocated to New Orleans, Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson submitted a proposal to build a new franchise. The league granted his wish and Johnson became the first black majority owner in professional American sports history.
The team's first head coach and general manager was Bernie Bickerstaff. Charlotte nabbed Kings forward Gerald Wallace in the expansion draft and selected UConn's Emeka Okafor with the second pick of the 2004 NBA Draft. The ‘Cats went 18-64 in their inaugural season and never won three straight games, but Okafor did earn the Rookie of the Year award.
Team brass took Raymond Felton and Sean May in the first round of the next year's draft. Felton has been on two different teams since and May was a bust, now playing in Turkey. Charlotte finished with a 26-56 record that year, but afterward Michael Jordan announced he had bought a minority stake in the team and would assume the position of head of basketball operations.
Under Jordan's guidance, the Bobcats greatly improved in 2006-07, winning 11 of their last 19 games to finish with a 33-49 record. Bickerstaff was let go at season's end and was replaced by Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown.
The team won 35 games the following season under Brown and was just four games removed from the eighth and final playoff spot. The organization was disgruntled with the arena ownership because they had to play the last four games of the season on the road due to a horse show, all of which they lost.
With budding young talent like D. J. Augustin and Gerald Henderson, as well veterans Wallace and Stephen Jackson, the Bobcats achieved their first winning record during the 2009-10 season. The 44-38 mark was good enough for the sixth seed in the playoffs but Charlotte was swept by the Magic in the first round.
There were high hopes heading into the following season. But Brown stepped down after a slow start, citing family reasons, while key contributors like Jackson and Tyrus Thomas were regularly sidelined with injuries. Wallace was traded to Portland at the deadline and the Bobcats finished 10th in the conference despite having ample opportunities to catch Indiana for the final playoff spot.
Jordan recently became the team's owner after purchasing it from Johnson. He is the first former NBA player to become majority owner of a franchise. Jordan has enlisted Paul Silas to lead the Bobcats in 2011-12. Last season under Silas, Charlotte went 25-29.
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