--Coach Larry Brown might serve as a consultant to the French national team this summer as that team tries to qualify for the European Championships. Frenchman Boris Diaw has lobbied Brown to help out. Brown already has a trip planned to Europe this summer, to do a coaching clinic in Italy.
--If the Bobcats lose to the Knicks in New York Saturday, the Knicks will clinch a tiebreaker over the Bobcats in the tight race for the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot. QUOTE TO NOTE: "We know he's going to find us. He'll look and look and look. Only after he's looked for all of us, does he shoot." -- G Raymond Felton, to the Charlotte Observer, on Boris Diaw's playmaking ability.
