Charlie Bell is Officially the Coolest Player in the NBA

It’s not every day that regular fans can interact with professional athletes, but for fans of the Milwaukee Bucks that logged onto their forum at realgm.com, Charlie Bell gave them theirs.

The long running joke in the forum was that the Bucks point guard read the forums and was secretly a random member that would sometimes post, so on September 24, 2007, one member decided to make a thread about it asking other members to post questions for him to answer.

Soon other members started posting questions too.

How do you feel about Brett Favre?

If Ruben Patterson and Brian Skinner got into a punch-up, who would win?

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Little did the members know that Bell would actually answer them. Though his blog on myspace.com Bell wrote out his answers to 20 or so questions, confirming that he did indeed read the forums. And that he also thinks that Favre is a legend, Reuben would own in a fight, and that, yes, Spongebob Squarepants does live in a pineapple under the sea.

So when asked the true reason that glue doesn’t stick to the inside of the bottle, Bell simply explained that no air is allowed inside of it to dry it out.

And when asked to tell the average number of hookers Bobby Simmons punches on a random club night, Bell’s response, “3..lol..naw Bobby is a nice guy.”

However, one member, Nowak008, could not control himself and confessed his love for the former Michigan State Spartan, followed by, “Hey, if you ever get injured, you can come sit with me in the stands.” Undeterred, Bell responded, “Nowak, get your hand out my pocket!!!..lol.”

Aside from answering all of the silly questions that were asked, Bell also answered some of the more serious questions and talked some basketball with members of the forum.

Mid-way through the questions one member noticed that Charlie had changed his myspace headline to “Sigra is the man,” and asked why he though so highly of that member. Bell explained that he agrees with Sigra’s philosophy when it comes to guarding the opposing point guard. “Sigra and Pat Riley have the same idea. Frustrate the starting PG from the start. Throw him off kilter, therefore throwing the whole team off kilter.”

Fans also wondered if he would ever join realgm, since he already reads the forums anyways, and Bell promised he would join once the season starts.

Following the Bucks home opener, Charlie fulfilled his promise, finally becoming a member. “I promised that I would join realgm. Well, here I am,” Bell wrote in his first post. “(It) feels great to officially be a realgmer.”

In the end, it takes a humble person to be able to talk basketball online with just some random fans. For Charlie Bell, he’s just one down-to-earth guy, something that the entire sporting world needs more of.

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Mo Williams is an Idiot, Throws Buck's Chances Down the Drain vs Charlotte

So here's the situation. Down by three points. Seven seconds Left. You have to inbound the ball from your own baseline and a three-point shot is the ONLY chance to send the game to overtime. So what does Mo Williams do? Well if you guessed that he attempted a desperate three-pointer to tie the game, you guessed wrong.

Instead of trying to tie the game, Williams inexcusably drove to the basket, scoring on a goal tended layup to bring the score from 100-97 to 100-99 with .7 seconds left in the game. Nice one. That sure does a lot of good.

So one of three things must have happened then.

First, Williams could have knowingly went for the quick layup and hoped foul Bobcats quickly afterwards, but its kinda of hard to do the whole foul and chase thing with under a second left.

Second, Williams knew the Bucks were down by three and thought that he could get fouled while making the layup to tie the score, something that's not likely to happen considering that Williams hardly makes those types of plays and that your asking for way to much to happen in that play to go your way.

Third, Williams somehow forgot the score and thought that the layup would tie the game, not something that you would want your point guard, that, by the way, you just paid $51.5 million dollars over the summer, to be forgetting. Either way, Mo Williams is an idiot, and should have just attempted a three-pointer.

Anyways, Williams finished with the most shots attempted (18) on the Bucks roster, along with six turnovers and only four assists. Meanwhile, Charlie Bell finished with zero turnovers and led the team in assists with five as the back-up point guard, something that he should not be for long considering that Bell actually tries to get his teammates involved in the game and is much better defensively than the shoot-first, pass second Williams.