8-3 | MJ's Cats | Lots of updates.

Thanks for all the replies guys! Really means a lot. And nice to see you back, Clutch!

I'll check what's up with the difficulty. I played a game with All-Star in my other association and I think I'll stick with that. Noticed I was on Pro and I want more of a challenge.

About the graphics, it's definitely not on max settings. I edit screenshots a bit also to make them look better. 3-game recap coming up about my simulated games.

ON-THE-GO 3-GAME RECAP

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(1-0) Charlotte @ Washington (0-0)

Solid team effort guides Bobcats over Wizards despite Arenas's 33

6 reach double-figures for Bobcats, who shoot 55%

FINAL SCORE
| 13 | 35 | 33 | 14 || 95 ||
| 16 | 30 | 31 | 29 ||106||

Key Perfomers :

Washington

Gilbert Arenas : 33 points, 9 rebounds, 3 steals, 13-21 FG, 3-9 3PT
Al Thornton : 12 points
Jermaine O'Neal : 12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks

Charlotte

Nene : 17 points, 6-8 FG
Gerald Wallace : 16 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals
Tyrus Thomas : 15 points, 2 blocks, 6-11 FG
Jason Kidd : 0 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists

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(0-2) Dallas @ Charlotte (2-0)

Felton and Thomas lead Bobcats to victory in home-opener over new-look Mavericks

Bobcats win despite Terry's and Nowtizki's big night, Kidd dishes 7 against former team, Mavericks knock down 14 threes.

FINAL SCORE
| 29 | 18 | 20 | 29 || 96 ||
| 29 | 18 | 29 | 29 ||105||

Key Perfomers :

Dallas

Dirk Nowtizki : 39 points, 7 rebounds, 16-27 FG, 5-5 3PT
Jason Terry : 34 points, 6 assists, 13-28 FG, 6-14 3PT
Shawn Marion : 4 points, 10 rebounds, 5 blocks

Charlotte

Raymond Felton : 23 points, 7 assists, 9-14 FG
Tyrus Thomas : 22 points, 7 rebounds, 3 blocks, 10-13 FG
Gerald Wallace : 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals
Jason Kidd : 1 point, 3 rebounds, 7 assists

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(0-3) LA Clippers @ Charlotte (3-0)

Jackson leads Bobcats over Clippers in return

Jackson scores 26 after returning from injury, Baron dishes 17 assists, Bobcats lose Camby for at least 2 weeks..

FINAL SCORE
| 25 | 21 | 20 | 31 || 104 ||
| 25 | 28 | 30 | 21 ||97||

Key Perfomers :

LA Clippers

Baron Davis : 18 points, 17 assists, 3 steals, 8-16 FG, 2-3 3PT
Al Harrington : 17 points, 6 rebounds, 7-12 FG, 3-6 3PT
Blake Griffin : 14 points, 6 rebounds

Charlotte

Stephen Jackson : 26 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, 3-5 3PT
Tyrus Thomas : 17 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks, 7-12 FG
Raymond Felton : 15 points, 8 assists
Jason Kidd : 3 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists

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NBA NEWS & HEADLINES



Bobcats send Mohammed to Kings for Sefolosha.

The Charlotte Bobcats announced that they have reached an agreement with the Sacramento Kings on a trade that will send Nazr Mohammed and the Bobcats 2011 2nd round pick to Sacramento for Thabo Sefolosha.

This deal will save the Bobcats 3M this year. The Kings needed experience to their front-line, who currently have rookie DeMarcus Cousins as the starting Center.


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Phoenix send Richardson to Minnesota for 1st Round pick.

The Phoenix Suns and the Minnesota Timberwolves have verbally agreed on a deal which will send Jason Richardson to the Timberwolves for a future 1st round pick.

Richardson will join the 2nd overall pick Evan Turner in Minnesota, who hope for a Playoff run with their core of Jefferson, Love, Flynn, Turner and now J-Rich.

For Phoenix, this deal was purely to save money. However in a separate deal, the Suns sent C Robin Lopez to Atlanta for veteran PG Mike Bibby.

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Bulls, Bucks and Kings complete 3-deam deal.

The Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks and Sacramento Kings have agreed on a 3-team, 3-player deal.

Players involved are Tayshaun Prince, Michael Redd and T.J Ford. Prince will land in Sacramento, Redd in Chicago and Ford in the Bucks.

This move is weird from the Bucks side, as they already have Brandon Jennings and Ricky Rubio at the point. Redd will join Derrick Rose in Chicago, adding experience to their 2-guard position. Prince will bring his Championship experience to the Kings to join Tyreke Evans.

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The Nazr-Sefolosha trade is good and realistic, but Thabo will likely rot on your bench. Meanwhile, The two CPU trades are nonsensical. Interesting to see simmed games in a 29 game dynasty. You're going to get through this fast.

Great wins But weird trades, lol. J-Rich for a pick?

4-0 a good start.. oh wtf? richardson for a pick? i disagree with that trade... LMAO

Lamrock, yeah, for now he'll stay on the end of the bench. About the simming, playing all 29 games will take so long. 2K isn't running very smoothly also so it will take a long time.

Thierry., J-Rich is rated like 74, but the trade still is weird. And the fact they went for Bibby for Lopez right after it made it more pointless.

Dee24, yeah, I think everybody, except the T-Wolves, does.

damn bad trade by Phoenix and nice that you picked up Sefolosha I hope you give him some playing time. 4-0 start? your team is a contender

Good to see this started man. Makes me can't wait to get to my regular season!

Lol, Dirk and Terry and Marion are key performers against La Clippers?

Good trade and this the Bobcats are having a terrific start to the season.

Martti, just wondering about a couple things....
1. What kind of sliders are you getting?
2. What kind of stats are you getting from the sliders (PIP, Rebounding, FG%...etc)
3. How many minutes are you playing?

Appreciate it if you can help me out with these, the stats i get are really crazy (sky high FG%, 3P%, PG get inflated assists still, very low rebounds for both teams...)

dare, yeah I was really surprised I won all the simulated games. I didn't even have Captain Jack in the first 2 games.

Sit, yeah, I might move through seasons quite quickly. And then it's the reign of Will Sit (If you win).

De8, thanks for noticing that. Fixed now.

Azzdogs, thanks. Yeah, so far, so good.

Valor, I've had the same problems. The sliders I have I believe are Kova's (See 2K10 Patch releases) with my little tweeks (CPU fouls for instance), I play on All-Star and with 10 minute quarters. There's still the high FG%, many points in the paint and PG's with million assists. I lowered User and CPU Shooting sliders also. I went to play my next game and the stats were very good. FG percentage about ~45%, rebounds 40+ for both teams.

But my PC just crashed totally with 12 seconds left in the game, score tied 92-92. I get that really often now. When I watch videos from NBA.com, sometimes when I play 2K10. So you might see a lot more simmed games.

Valor, I've had the same problems. The sliders I have I believe are Kova's (See 2K10 Patch releases) with my little tweeks (CPU fouls for instance), I play on All-Star and with 10 minute quarters. There's still the high FG%, many points in the paint and PG's with million assists. I lowered User and CPU Shooting sliders also. I went to play my next game and the stats were very good. FG percentage about ~45%, rebounds 40+ for both teams.

I see, thanks for the info, i'll try Kova's out Do you happen to know any 12 minute slider settings though? and is it possible to send your slider settings over (adjusted ones) or just tell me what the shooting sliders are, thanks

But my PC just crashed totally with 12 seconds left in the game, score tied 92-92. I get that really often now. When I watch videos from NBA.com, sometimes when I play 2K10. So you might see a lot more simmed games.

At least you can watch videos from NBA.com, over here you can't and sometimes you just jump to the ugly HK NBA site

But my PC just crashed totally with 12 seconds left in the game, score tied 92-92. I get that really often now.

good GOD!?! that must be beyond frustrating

Valor, don't know any 12 minute quarter sliders, maybe Albys' would do the trick. I'll post my sliders as soon as I can. 2K10 kind of pisses me off right now.

Clutch, yes it was. Don't know what to do about it either.

Hope you can fix the crashes bro!

Yeah, thank god for Autosave. I think I'll just sim more from now on. I hope I can play the Playoffs, at least one game per series.

This could be a big problem Martti. The very limited crashes are what make the 360 version good for dynasties.

Valor, don't know any 12 minute quarter sliders, maybe Albys' would do the trick. I'll post my sliders as soon as I can. 2K10 kind of pisses me off right now.

Thanks man, see if it's your computer's problem though, scan for viruses and stuff, because it's not only happening when you play 2k right

Valor, it's werid. It crashed sometimes, when I play 2K10, sometimes when I watch NBA.com videos. But it doesn't crash with Fifa 10 and watching videos from youtube. I have a good Virus protection software installed, I think it isn't a virus. The PC is just old.

But I'm not gonna let it stop me. Updates might be slow, but they'll be there.

Jordan will try to lead his recently purchased Bobcats to the Playoffs.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Michael Jordan's drive and immense physical talent made him an NBA superstar. His stardom and shrewdness helped him make millions in business.

His latest venture will test his talents and skills like no other.

NBA commissioner David Stern said Saturday he expects Jordan to be approved as majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats by the end of next month. Minutes before his exclusive negotiating window expired late Friday night, Jordan struck a deal with owner Bob Johnson to take over the money-losing team in his home state.

It puts the biggest basketball star of his generation in charge of a 6-year-old team that's never made the playoffs, has struggled to win over fans and has more than $150 million in debt.

Can Jordan's streak of business success continue?

"If he's going to be an absentee owner, just like Bob was, it's not going to work," said Felix Sabates, a NASCAR team owner who also holds a minority stake in the Bobcats. "I think if Michael makes a commitment and shows dedication, he can be very successful. He's a big icon in this part of the country."

An icon that has been rarely seen. He's been a part-owner of the Bobcats with the final say on all basketball decisions since 2006. But Jordan has kept a low profile, rarely attending practices or games, taking no role in marketing and leaving the day-to-day operations to a team of assistants.

But former Houston Rockets executive George Postolos, who had an ownership group together to buy the team before Jordan swooped in at the last minute, thinks the deal shows Jordan really wanted the team.

"It's a very substantial part of his net worth," Postolos said. "He's very, very committed."

Jordan remained silent on Saturday. Details of his ownership group -- called MJ Basketball Holdings LLC -- weren't available. Sabates said he won't be part of Jordan's ownership group, and believes Jordan is buying 100 percent of the team.

Johnson, the first black majority owner of a major professional sports team, has also declined comment after coming close to ridding himself of a venture that cost him a fortune.

"Whatever the number is, Bob is taking a huge financial loss," Sabates said. "He tried hard. He just made some stupid mistakes. Bob has a bit of an attitude problem that some people owe him. Nobody owes anybody anything."

Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, paid $300 million for the expansion team, which replaced the New Orleans-bound Hornets in this town and began play in 2004-05. Johnson, who maintained his residence in Washington, had several missteps, from a failed venture to start a regional sports network, pricing tickets too high, clashing with business leaders and struggling to win over fans soured by the Hornets' ugly exit.

While the Bobcats lost on the floor, Johnson was losing tens of millions of dollars each year despite a new arena funded by taxpayers. The losses mounted as he increased the player payroll after his successful effort to recruit Jordan, who bought a small stake in the team and was given control of personnel moves.

Just like his stint running the Washington Wizards and his decision to draft Kwame Brown No. 1 overall in 2001, Jordan quickly had a gaffe in Charlotte when he selected the disappointing Adam Morrison with the third pick in the 2006 draft.

"Everybody wanted to see him involved and I can't imagine the NBA not having Michael Jordan involved," Brown said Saturday while watching the North Carolina-Wake Forest game. "He's been great for us to work with, he lets us do our job and he's the best. So thankfully, he's back."

Bobcats guard Stephen Jackson echoed his coach. Jackson, acquired from Golden State in November, has been one of Jordan's best pickups.

"I think it's great, an opportunity for me to continue to play for a guy who I've looked up to my whole career, the best to ever play the game," he said Saturday night. "I think he's going to get this team, the right guys on the court, and go in the right direction to be a consistent team in the playoffs."

Jordan will become the second black majority owner for this franchise in a state where he's adored. He grew up in Wilmington and hit a last-second shot to give North Carolina the 1982 national championship.

"We have been anticipating an agreement for transfer of a majority interest in the Bobcats and are pleased it has occurred," Stern said in a statement. "Bob Johnson brought the excitement of the NBA back to Charlotte and I am certain that as Michael Jordan returns to his home state as the principal owner of the Bobcats the team will continue its growth as a success on the court, as a business success and as a valued community asset."

Sabates said making Charlotte his home is key to making it work for Jordan. If he doesn't, his streak of business success may end.

"If Michael doesn't do that, he's wasted a lot of money," Sabates said. "But Michael is pretty smart and Michael's got some pretty good advisers. He didn't get to where he's at by being dumb.

"This is the biggest investment of his life. He can have 19,000 people at every game. It's up to him."

Jordan has already had an impact with the team, initiating the recent trade that landed them Thabo Sefolosha.

(Via NBA.com + 1 my line.)

MJ sucks.

I want some more games and some big trades Mr Martti.

MJ rules

Sit, he's the greatest to play the game. He doesn't have any plans for now, so don't expect big deals. I'm happy with my line-up.

Dee24,

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