<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Brevin Knight and Raymond Felton knew there would be questions. They were right. After the Bobcats took Felton -- the former North Carolina star -- with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2005 NBA Draft on June 28, 2005 and re-signed Knight -- the veteran point guard -- on August 19, 2005, questions about how the two would co-exist began to emerge. But Knight and Felton were having none of it and insisted the media was making an issue out of something that simply wasn?t there. ?What a lot of people didn?t see was that we hit it off good from day one,? Felton said. ?Even though we were battling one another in camp, at the same time we were cool about it. We understood what we had to do. There was never any drama between us. It was as simple as two guys trying to play basketball, vying for the same spot on the same team.? But the questions kept coming, and Knight, the Bobcats co-captain, stepped up to address the situation early in training camp. ?On the second day after training camp, I told people that there were not going to be any more questions of me versus him, because there was no me versus him,? Knight recalled. ?It was just us trying to make the Bobcats organization better, and I think that?s what we?ve done this season.? Knight and Felton?s relationship grew both on and off the court in training camp, and when the regular season began in November, it was Knight in the starting lineup and Felton coming off the bench. The former Tar Heel made just one start in his first 24 games, stepping in for Knight (left knee tendinitis) on November 16, 2005 against Indiana and scoring 18 points with 10 assists, five rebounds and five steals in his first NBA start. The next night, Felton was back in his reserve role on the bench, and that was fine with him. ?I wanted to come into the league as a rookie and earn my position,? Felton said. ?I told (Head) Coach (Bernie) Bickerstaff that I like to earn everything I get. It was difficult, but I got through it. You have to be a man. You have to grow up.? And it was Knight who was there to help Felton get through the growing pains early in his first season.</div> Link
