The NBA will see former North Carolina Tar Heels Relive NCAA College Basketball Days

The University of North Carolina and the Dean E. Smith Center will play host to two NBA preseason games in October featuring former North Carolina Tar Heels superstars.

Former Tar Heels, now NBA young guns like Raymond Felton, Brendan Haywood, Antawn Jamison, Sean May and Marvin Williams will be returning to University of North Carolina for an NBA exhibition game.

Felton and May's Charlotte Bobcats are involved in both exhibition games, including an October 17 match-up against Haywood and Jamison's Washington Wizards, and an October 27 game against Williams and the Atlanta Hawks.

Felton, May and Williams were members of the 2005 NCAA college basketball champion Tar Heels. Jamison led Carolina to back-to-back Atlantic Coast Conference championships and Final Fours in 1997 and 1998 and was the 1998 National Player of the Year.

Haywood is one of three UNC players to ever record a triple-double in a game and is Carolina's all-time leader in field goal percentage and blocked shots.

The University of North Carolina is a sixteen university system which comprises all public four-year universities in North Carolina, United States.

While the system's Board of Governors oversee general system policy, each campus executes a large degree of autonomy from the system and are classified as separate institutions.

The system has a total enrollment of over 183,000 students and confers over 75 per cent of all bachelor degrees in North Carolina. The system provides quality education at some of the lowest tuition rates in the US despite recent tuition increases.

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Here are some NCAA College Basketball game odds of some NCAA College Basketball teams and their chances of winning NCAA College Basketball's biggest prize:

North Carolina 11/2

Duke 18/1

George Mason 200/1

Florida 6/1

Illinois 40/1

Adam Morrison will be $3 M Richer with the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA

Adam Morrison of Gonzaga is the new million dollar man in the NBA.

Adam Morrison, the No.3 overall pick in the NBA Draft, will make $3 million next season under a contract he signed with the Charlotte Bobcats.

''We have already seen how his skills will benefit our team and how competitive he is on the court,'' coach and general manager Bernie Bickerstaff said.

Morrison will be paid nearly $3.25 million in the second year of the deal under terms of the rookie pay scale that is part of the NBA's collective bargaining agreement. The Bobcats will have the option to renew the contract in years three and four.

Morrison, a 6-foot-8, 205-pound forward out of Gonzaga, is expected to play for the Bobcats' summer league team in Orlando, then work out with the U.S. national team in Las Vegas.

''It has been a lifelong dream to play in the NBA,'' Morrison said in a statement released by the team. ''I look forward to doing whatever I can to help the Bobcats take the next step as we build toward a championship.''

Morrison led the nation in scoring last season, winning a duel with Duke guard J.J. Redick by averaging 28.1 points per game.

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Allen Iverson is the Answer to the Denver Nuggets' Prayers in NBA Basketball

Allen Iverson. The Philadelphia 76ers and the Denver Nuggets have been talking about him for months now.

Allen Iverson, the king of cornrows and that killer crossover, not to mention an indiscriminate shooter from the hip and the lip, is as good a place as any to start a heated debate, because he's one player guaranteed to ignite countless arguments regarding everything right and wrong about pro hoops.

If the Nuggets want to take a shot at greatness, their immediate trade discussions should begin and end with two words.

Allen Iverson.

Any billionaire owner of an NBA franchise can maintain a team's mediocre status quo by signing young players Carmelo Anthony and Nene to contracts worth $140 million. It's a no-brainer. And, for Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke, it's chump change.

If Kroenke craves a championship as badly as I think he does, then the Nuggets should do whatever it takes to cut a deal for Iverson, the 31-year-old point guard who has worn out his welcome in Philadelphia.

The Sixers and Denver have been linked in trade rumors regarding Iverson for months. There have been billows of smoke, but no fire. It's time to get serious.

Philly desires a stout defense and the measure of sanity that A.I.'s exit could provide. The Nuggets desperately seek a scorer to take the pressure off Melo. So trade Denver center Marcus Camby and point guard Andre Miller for Iverson.

How's that for a blockbuster deal?

Could Philadelphia, undoubtedly open to the possibility of trading Iverson, benefit from the shot-blocking of Camby to anchor its defense and appreciate Miller's steady hand running the Sixers offense? Yes.

Would any NBA team be more fun, sell more tickets throughout the league and have more popular jerseys across the nation than Denver, if Iverson and Anthony were the marquee names? No.

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Ben Wallace is America's Gift to Chicago this Fourth of July

First, Detroit lost Steve Yzerman. Now, it seems they will lose Ben Wallace too.

Wallace, an unrestricted free agent, and his agent, Arn Tellem, were close to signing a contract Monday night with the Chicago Bulls worth substantially more than the four-year, $48-million offer the Pistons opened negotiations with Saturday.

According to a person close to the negotiations, the Bulls had offered something closer to four years, $60 million to bring the NBA's top defensive stopper to the Windy City.

The deal was expected to be finalized late Monday or early Tuesday with Wallace's oral agreement. He can't sign an official contract until July 12. Either way, the news leaves the Pistons facing a tough question in the middle of these Fourth of July festivities.

What do they do now?

Wallace, 31, played six seasons for the Pistons, becoming the franchise's all-time leader in both blocks and reaching fourth all-time on the rebound chart with 6,048. When he came to Detroit in 2000 in the sign-and-trade that shipped former star Grant Hill to Orlando, Wallace was known as a role-playing, undrafted, undersized center without nearly the star power he enjoys today.

Now, his profile has skyrocketed along with his trademark Afro.

Wallace, a soft-spoken, no-nonsense personality, soon became symbolic of the Pistons' style, a defensive-minded, grind-it-out, tough way of play. Despite being only 6-feet-9, he controlled the paint on the defensive end against much bigger bodies.

He almost never missed a game with an injury. He was considered the heart and soul of the Pistons locker room, where his teammates affectionately called him ''Body.''

The Detroit Pistons could very well start the brand new 2006-2007 NBA Season all hype but no ''body.'' Ben Wallace will sign with the Chicago Bulls and that will definitely be a sad day for Detroit sports.

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Philadelphia 76ers eye Ben Wallace

The Philadelphia 76ers WILL improve their defense if they land Ben Wallace.

Two of the 76ers' biggest deficiencies last season were defense and rebounding, so president and general manager Billy King went after the guy who is one of the best in the NBA in both areas.

On the first day NBA teams could negotiate with free agents, King pulled a bit of a surprise yesterday and contacted the agent for Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace, a four-time NBA defensive player of the year.

The 6-foot-9 Wallace, who will turn 32 in September, appeared ready to return to the Pistons before they were eliminated in the NBA playoffs. But during the season, he hired Arn Tellem, one of the most high-powered agents in the league, known for aggressively finding the best deals for his clients.

The Pistons are believed to be interested in signing Wallace for four years, with a salary starting at $11 million to $12 million. But another team may be interested in offering him a maximum deal of six years, with a salary beginning at $14 million or $15 million.

The Sixers, who are over the salary cap, can obtain Wallace only in a sign-and-trade with the Pistons. The Chicago Bulls, who have room under the salary cap, are also looking into signing Wallace.

Wallace averaged 11.3 rebounds (fifth in the NBA), 2.21 blocked shots and 1.8 steals last season.

King also called the representatives for the Sixers' three restricted free agents - John Salmons, Willie Green and Shavlik Randolph - as well as the agent for Washington Wizards swingman Jared Jeffries.

King tendered qualifying offers to Salmons, Green and Randolph on Thursday, meaning the Sixers will have the right to match any offer the players receive from another team. Salmons, if signed, could be used as a piece in a trade, but the Sixers seem to want Green and Randolph back.

The versatile 6-11 Jeffries, who averaged 6.4 points and 4.9 rebounds in 77 games last season while earning a little less than $2.8 million, is a restricted free agent, meaning the Wizards can match any offer he receives.

What will be the next step for the Philadelphia 76ers during the offseason? Rumor has it that they are also willing to trade Allen Iverson away, the man who single-handedly put the Sixers organization back on track. Whatever happens, the Sixers will certainly have an entirely different line-up once the brand new 2006-2007 NBA Season starts.

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