<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Older And Wiser?</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Nov 6</span> - Jeff McInnis was Charlotte's own wild child most of his basketball life, but he always knew the game. Knew it too well. He bounced around seven teams in 10 NBA seasons in a recurring drama that was mostly about intolerance. He understood basketball at the calculus level, and occasionally humiliated teammates who couldn't add 2 + 2.</p> </p> I heard that again and again from coaches and players. Even his agent acknowledged McInnis' prickly side. So when the New Jersey Nets traded him to his hometown team (after essentially banishing McInnis as a troublemaker), I had my doubts.</p> </p> The doubts have evaporated. At 33, he's playing with an authority the Bobcats need. He's the first player off the bench -- actually playing more minutes than starting center Primoz Brezec -- and coach Sam Vincent's backcourt of choice late in a close game is McInnis-Raymond Felton, with Jason Richardson shifting to small forward. -- <font color="#000000">Charlotte Observer</font></p></div></div>
