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How Hornets Fans Survive the 2011-2012 Season
They say that every sport is all about winning. Unless you can’t. So what’s left then? Watching the sport. Is that so bad? Before you reply, consider this: I’m talking about one season. One Lockout-shortened season. After which our team has two first round draft-picks. And maybe more, pending a possible Kaman trade. So is it so bad to watch basketball...
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7 days ago
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7 days ago
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Talking With The Big Heads
On January 20, 2010, Hornets radio voice, Sean Kelley hosted a live interactive fan conference call with Hornets President, Hugh Weber, Vice-President and General Manager, Dell Demps, and scores of season ticket holders. Over the hour-long call, both men established that they are committed to building not just a new Hornets team, but a new image, a new culture, and a new identify...
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21 days ago
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21 days ago
Decoding the NBA Litigation and Why it Still Matters
Representatives of the NBA players proclaimed that they hoped for a summary judgment in their federal litigation within sixty days of filing suit. The Owners claimed the players turning to litigation was a sham, meant as an improper negotiation tool, and likely ended any hope of an NBA season this year. Had the players stuck out their litigation, the Owners would have been right...
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November 26, 2011
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November 26, 2011
Narrative Me This
Two teams, putting nine months of grind, exhaustive hours of coaching, film, and analysis, with rote dedication to mastering what some call a game, culminating in a determined fight to prove your team is the best in the world, while enveloped in millions of obsessive fans cheering and jeering every move tells a story on its own. That effort, that focus, to exemplify basketball...
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June 11, 2011
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June 11, 2011
The Playoffs Are Here. Watch With Friends.
Lakers vs. Hornets. A streetfight to the finish. May the second best team win. Kobe proved karma is dead by sticking a dagger in the back of every Sacramento fan last night and denying them one more happy moment, one small shimmer of victory in a season full of struggles. This all a day after Kobe called a referee “a ******* ***” after being awarded a technical. (I...
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April 14, 2011
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April 14, 2011
We Were Right And You Were Wrong
Guess what Monty Williams and Dell Demps? Give Marcus Thornton 41 minutes a game and he might just drop 42 for ya. On 13-20 shooting. On 4-7 from deep. Maybe the young guard who’s so explosive and agile, always avoiding contact, will only have 1 FTA (made) at half, but then the other team will be forced to hack him mercilessly on the other side, desperate to stop him...
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March 15, 2011
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March 15, 2011
Chalk Talk With Dell Demps at Bourbon House
Tuesday night, with the trade deadline looming, the Hornets were good enough to give us just under an hour with the team’s general manager, Dell Demps. Although he, like any NBA front office person, was guarded, you could still get a good glimpse of his thoughts by reading how he answered questions, which answers he gave enthusiastically, and which he just had to give.
There...
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February 22, 2011
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February 22, 2011
Petition for More Marcus Buckets
NBAtv’s Rick Kamla knows Marcus Thornton is “Lil’ Buckets.” Gil and Bob from CST’s Cox Sports know it. Let’s face it, he knows it. The Hype has written about Marcus plenty, albeit, much of it last year. If you’ve been following him too, you know the nickname didn’t come out of thin air; MT5 can ball. Somehow, he and Darren...
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February 16, 2011
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February 16, 2011
Gray Smash!!!
For those of you who don’t know it, I have an irrational hatred of Kurt Thomas. As Mr. Thomas has aged (he’s now 38), he’s often been used as a center, instead of his natural position, power forward. He’s 6′9″, 230 lbs. In contrast, his presumptive position opponent at the New Orleans Arena tonight, the 26-year-old Aaron Gray, is 7′, 270 lbs. Gray’s also...
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February 12, 2011
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February 12, 2011
Hornets Pre-Game Prayer Violates NBA Rules and Good Sense
The New Orleans Hornets are currently one of two teams (the Oklahoma Thunder being the other) that start each game with an Arena-wide, pre-game prayer. This strange occurrence is a hybrid of religious zeal and moneymaking, as the Hornets sell this slot of proselytizing to the highest bidder. While I’ve been told that anyone can pay for the privilege of delivering this...
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February 05, 2011
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February 05, 2011
Hornets Hyped in Brazil
Although Hornets’ fans have decried the lack of National TV games for the New Orleans Hornets this season, it’s obvious that anyone who has League Pass or watches NBA highlights still loves, at the very least, Chris Paul, who was one of two guards elected by popular vote to start for the Western Conference All-Stars in Dallas. This is not just a U.S. phenomenon, though; Paul...
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February 02, 2011
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February 02, 2011
Chaos Effect
A while back, I wrote about the Chaos Effect that Chris Paul creates. At his best, he’s completely unpredictable and indefensible. Will he roll the ball to half-court only to explode past an overzealous defender, dribble up lazily and run brutal pick and roll half-court sets, push the fast break, or wind around defenders, sanguine and unfathomable, with his patented fake...
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January 30, 2011
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January 30, 2011
Help Save the Hornets. For Real.
Sure, we joked about buying the Hornets. But low and behold the guys over at Hornets247 have organized a real charity organization, the Save Our Hornets Foundation, which is accepting donations to help put people in seats at the Hornets game, to help ensure the attendance benchmark is set and the Hornets are locked into several more years of their lease, making it much more likely...
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December 27, 2010
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December 27, 2010
Stern is a Genius
If you were in the middle of a public relations war with a powerful union, and had thus far failed to convince the public at large that your claims about NBA teams losing money was true, what would you do? If you were David Stern, you’d buy the Hornets on behalf of the NBA and present them as Exhibit A to that skeptic public.
Leaked financials? Tales of woe? A steadfast...
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December 08, 2010
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December 08, 2010
Change The Mojo For Fuck’s Sake
Hornets have lost their damn minds. As most of you know by now, the Hornets have announced new, alternate, gold uniforms. From Hornets.com: “The alternate uniforms will be worn for the first time on Friday, Dec. 10…[and] will also sport their Mardi Gras gold uniforms for every Saturday game throughout the rest of the season.” So we’re pre-planning when...
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December 07, 2010
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December 07, 2010
You Buy It, You Don’t Break It.
So far, the popular reaction to the Hornets’ takeover seems to be that if when the NBA buys the Hornets, the management’s hands will be tied and the team will be in terrible bind, akin to a torrential downpour when the water’s already high on the levees. Not necessarily. While the reality is that the obligations of the NBA will likely be contractual, at a base...
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December 06, 2010
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December 06, 2010
Help Hornets Hype Buy The Hornets
By now, the rumors are everywhere. The Hornets ownership situation is in chaos. George Shinn wants out. Gary Chouest wants out. Maybe the NBA wants in? Perhaps this is why the Times Picayune dug up the little nugget warning folks that if the Hornets don’t average 14,214 in attendance through the end of the year, the team can pay a $10 million exit fee and walk. No big...
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December 05, 2010
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December 05, 2010
You Can’t Do This to Me, Hornets
I know you are f*@#ing with me here. Putting a kid who does not look completely unlike Devin Brown’s little (thinner) brother in Devin Brown’s jersey. Here I am, innocently going through the Media Day pictures, until… BWAAAAA!!
I almost had a heart attack.
DEVIN BROWN WHO IS NOT DEVIN BROWN
Now, in addition to being freaked out, I feel like I have to apologize to...
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September 28, 2010
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September 28, 2010
Ticktock6: Gone Till November
I have decided to go on blogging hiatus for the next several months. This might end up turning into semi-permanently. I honestly don’t know. I’ll re-evaluate after the season starts. What you can expect:
No posts from me on this site until at least November 1st
Less commenting and involvement elsewhere
Less of me on Twitter (look, this one is more of a guideline than...
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July 25, 2010
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July 25, 2010
Hints of Greatness, Self-Abnegated, or Actualized?
Lots of people are talking about players’ rights versus owners’ rights, basketball being a business, winning is everything, and it all breaking down into an almost mechanical equation of loyalists of all varieties, arguing three sides to every story. Lebron this, Amare this, Chris Paul that. Kevin Durant. But there is something more to it, something primal, that...
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July 24, 2010
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July 24, 2010
Top Five Evil Trade Destinations for Chris Paul
These are Evil Trade Destinations. Do not leave me sad notes saying I’m mean. Evil is mean.
Charlotte Bobcats – They play the Miami Heat on a regular basis. “Oh, hey friends! Isn’t it awesome to have us all together here tonight?…… Oh……… WTF…. Why you gotta beat me down like that? I thought we were all friends?”
LA...
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July 23, 2010
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July 23, 2010
The Legacy of Bower Robotnik and the Era of The Lebrons
Well, for better or for worse, the Jeff Bower era is over in New Orleans. It’s 2010, do you know where your general manager is? No doubt Bower was a conservative force, but a prudent one too. He brought in Tyson Chandler for almost nothing. When it was obvious Tyson was hurt, he remedied a potential mistake in giving him back away, by getting Okafor for him. People...
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July 21, 2010
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July 21, 2010
I Wash My Hands of These Crazypeople
So let me sum up:
I'll be over here with my four friends, trying to process this.
Jeff Bower has been fired. The Hornets are in the middle of free agency and haven’t signed anyone but Aaron Gray. They were already dealing with a million and two rumors of George Shinn’s sketchiness, and now they’re dealing with more because they may have backed out of Luther...
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July 15, 2010
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July 15, 2010
Some Hornets Summer League Thoughts
So Darren Collison is leaving Vegas? Too bad. Thornton looked like he was forcing a lot of shots without him to penetrate last night. Our team will probably beast on everyone a little less than expected.
Quincy Pondexter is quite the multi-tasker, isn’t he? Nice shot, nice aggressiveness, nice muscle, nice energy. He’s put together two straight nice games. Julian Wright...
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July 12, 2010
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July 12, 2010
Those Moments When You Realize Your Hero is Not Who You Thought he Was?
Having one of those right now.
Paul joins LeBron’s marketing “company” (oh fine, I may have been, um, editorializing a bit there with the quotes)
Don’t make the mistake of underestimating this: it’s epically bad for New Orleans. This is the beginning of a dark spiral of ********, betrayal, hype, diva behavior, leaks, “anonymous sources in Chris...
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July 08, 2010
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July 08, 2010
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