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Brown Good For 4-7 More Wins In Charlotte?Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer asked a number of NBA front office executives what kind of impact they believed Coach Larry Brown will have on the team. He reported in today's Observer that executives believe Brown will be good for anywhere from four to seven more victories in 2008-09. The Bobcats won 32 games last season. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bobcats Cut About 35 Of Non-Hoops StaffThe Bobcats have laid off a number of their non-basketball operations staff after a consultant's report reflected over-staffing in relation to similar markets. The team reportedly cut 35 jobs within the organization. "We looked at every piece of our business operation, president Fred Whitfield said Friday afternoon. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Rockets Match Offer To Landry
"We’re really excited to have him back," Morey says. "We wanted to sign him long-term out of the draft last year; because we didn’t have mid-level, we weren’t able to get that done. So now we’re excited to get that done, and we’re going to have a great set of players in for training camp." "We had a lot of time obviously to think about what range of money we would match and this fell into that. Also, training camp coming Monday, we want to get him in here and get the physical finished and get him here starting Monday for camp. There was a chance that this could drag out and we didn’t want that to happen. We felt like we had to get Carl in at a number that didn’t hurt our ability to maneuver long-term and we feel like this does that, so we were willing to wait and I’m pleased. I’ve said all along that it’d be nice if someone would just sign him so we could match and get this over with." Houston Rockets, Charlotte Bobcats Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bobcats Sep 2008 Archive
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Less than twenty four hours after the Charlotte Bobcats signed Carl Landry to a three year offer sheet - with the third year being a team option - Rockets' GM Daryl Morey announced that Houston will match the deal.