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DeSagana Diop: Tim Duncan is the coolest and nicest superstar in the league. Twitter

Charlotte Bobcats, San Antonio Spurs, Tim Duncan, DeSagana Diop 

The Bobcats still owe center Gana Diop about $7.4 million for next season, and Silas wants to use him, perhaps even as a starter. Silas said Diop, currently out with a hamstring strain, has promised to be in Charlotte this season for extensive workouts. Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Bobcats, Injuries, DeSagana Diop 

Sean Deveney: If Bobcats deal DJ Augustin, source says they'd need to dump a bad contract with him: Maggette or Diop. Ty Thomas' contract is untradeable. Twitter

Charlotte Bobcats, Trade, Corey Maggette, DJ Augustin, DeSagana Diop 

DeSagana Diop: I'm going to miss real Madrid against Barca today, promise my kids I was gonna take them to the playground after practice. Daddy duty Twitter

Charlotte Bobcats, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, DeSagana Diop 

DeSagana Diop: Glad that my boy Josh Howard sign a deal with the jazz. Good dude. Twitter

Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards, Josh Howard, DeSagana Diop 

Also scheduled to play are Corey Brewer (Mavericks), LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland), Anthony Randolph (Minnesota), DeSagana Diop (Charlotte), Jarrett Jack (New Orleans), Reggie Evans (Toronto), former NBA player Damon Jones, and Howard. Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Charlotte Bobcats, Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Orleans Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Toronto Raptors, Anthony Randolph, Jarrett Jack, LaMarcus Aldridge, Reggie Evans, Lockout, Damon Jones, DeSagana Diop, Corey Brewer 

Charlotte Bobcats center Gana Diop had successful surgery Wednesday on his ruptured right Achilles tendon. Just to put the severity of that injury in perspective, projected recovery time is nine to 12 months. Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Bobcats, Injuries, DeSagana Diop 

Charlotte Bobcats center DeSagana Diop is out for the season, after a Magnetic Resonance Imaging confirmed a rupture of his right Achilles tendon. The Bobcats suspected Diop had sustained a serious injury, when he stuggled to even walk off the court Friday against the Golden State Warriors. Ironically, Diop was getting his best chance to play, due to the coaching change from Larry Brown to Paul Silas. Silas had previously coached Diop in Cleveland. Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Bobcats, Injuries, DeSagana Diop 

Some names bandied about in a deal for Redick have been Indiana’s Jeff Foster or Portland’s Joel Pryzbilla or Charlotte’s Nazr Mohammed or DeSagna Diop (yikes). Their salaries align. Orlando Sentinel

Charlotte Bobcats, Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic, Portland Trail Blazers, JJ Redick, Nazr Mohammed, Jeff Foster, Joel Przybilla, DeSagana Diop 

Diop has been a punchline the past year. On performance, he deserved it, but let me tell you something: If there's a better guy in that locker room -- and this is the best locker room I've covered in 21 NBA seasons -- I don't know who it would be. You don't think Gana knows people ridicule him? If he became bitter and surly and introverted, who could blame him? But even when he never got a uniform, when he wasn't activated for the playoff series to give fouls on Dwight Howard, he was gracious and classy. Charlotte Observer

Orlando Magic, Dwight Howard, DeSagana Diop 

The basketball court, DeSagana Diop explains, is in Parcelles Assainies, the neighborhood in which he grew up in Dakar and the unlikely starting point for a nine-year N.B.A. career. Diop’s parents, he says, still live in the neighborhood. The space was just dirt and trash before Diop dedicated the court last week. “Before we did it, it was nothing,” Diop said by telephone from Dakar, the capital of Senegal, in western Africa. Its opening symbolizes another small step on a continent where the N.B.A. is attempting to take a great leap. The N.B.A. has extended its influence to Asia, and India is next on its ambitious docket. But the league has recently increased its efforts in Africa. New York Times

DeSagana Diop 

Diop views himself from the same prism as many of his campers. He is luckier than most and did not scour for his next meal. His father was a high school principal and his mother a teacher. But like some of the campers, Diop ventured into basketball only after he grew too tall for soccer. Fall discovered Diop and funneled him to the United States and the high school basketball powerhouse Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, which has produced numerous N.B.A. stars. Diop progressed on the basketball court and, even more important, in the classroom. He was Oak Hill’s valedictorian. “He just needed to be given the tools, but you could tell that he had a lot of upside,” Fall said. “It was just a question of if he could get to the right place to learn the game.” New York Times

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