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Today is Emeka Okafor Day! (And Semi-Schedule Leaks!)
August 04, 2009 by
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This only works if you are a really, really fast reader, but if you click the link below, you can see what looks like our 2009-10 schedule (the dates match up, and the games are different from last year) before it redirects back to last year’s schedule. Oh, NBA, fining people...
We Signed This Guy
July 29, 2009 by
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That is all.
http://neworleanshornetsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/hornets-sign-free-agent-forward-diogu.html
Just Put It on Paper And Let’s Move On
July 28, 2009 by
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This trade is what the phrase “mixed feelings” was made for.
So the Hornets are trading Tyson Chandler. Again. And it looks like it’s going to go through this time. To tell you the truth, I’m relieved. Yes, I wanted us to keep TC. I wanted to see him get healthy...
Capitalism 1, Truth 0. Your Move.
July 19, 2009 by
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Logical argument is apparently a lost art in today’s culture. Chris Paul, in Vegas to watch the Hornets’ Summer League team, was asked about Tyson Chandler, and how that trade might indicate that even someone like him could be traded. His response: “In this league...
Capitalism 1, Truth 0. Your Move.
July 19, 2009 by
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Logical argument is apparently a lost art in today’s culture. Chris Paul, in Vegas to watch the Hornets’ Summer League team, was asked about Tyson Chandler, and how that trade might indicate that even someone like him could be traded. His response: “In this league...
Ha ha ha, Party it Up, Pose
July 19, 2009 by
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There are two unalienable truths in the world of Hornets Hype: 1) James Posey is amazing, and 2) Tracy McGrady sucks. Rare indeed is the gossip item in which we get the two in practically the same paragraph.
Spotted at TAO Nightclub, James Posey of the New Orleans Hornets. The NBA...
Ha ha ha, Party it Up, Pose
July 19, 2009 by
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There are two unalienable truths in the world of Hornets Hype: 1) James Posey is amazing, and 2) Tracy McGrady sucks. Rare indeed is the gossip item in which we get the two in practically the same paragraph.
Spotted at TAO Nightclub, James Posey of the New Orleans Hornets. The NBA...
The Hype Does the HOF
July 16, 2009 by
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I’m not sure I even knew where the Basketball Hall of Fame was until this weekend. (For all of you who are similarly oblivious, it’s in Springfield, MA.) But here we were driving down the Mass Pike on our way to a wedding, and we see a sign on the side of the highway that [...]
The Hype Does the HOF
July 16, 2009 by
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I’m not sure I even knew where the Basketball Hall of Fame was until this weekend. (For all of you who are similarly oblivious, it’s in Springfield, MA.) But here we were driving down the Mass Pike on our way to a wedding, and we see a sign on the side of the highway that [...]
Oh True Hoop. You took the DeShazier bait: hook, line, and sinker.
July 16, 2009 by
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ESPN True Hoop, good stuff. ESPN headline: “Buzz Kill: Hornets thriftiness costing team?”, not so much. For those of you that may not know, True Hoop likes to aggregate various media sources and present them all for the reader in one place. What spurred this headline...
Oh True Hoop. You took the DeShazier bait: hook, line, and sinker.
July 16, 2009 by
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ESPN True Hoop, good stuff. ESPN headline: “Buzz Kill: Hornets thriftiness costing team?”, not so much. For those of you that may not know, True Hoop likes to aggregate various media sources and present them all for the reader in one place. What spurred this headline...
Let the Fun Begin.
July 08, 2009 by
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According to the Associated Press, the NBA Salary Cap has been set at $58.68 million, about $1 million less than last year’s Cap. The NBA Luxury Tax also dropped, by about $2 million, to $69.92 million. The midlevel exception has been set at $5.85 million. The new Cap and...
Chris Paul is on Twitter
July 06, 2009 by
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He is. It’s the real him. We’ve got confirmation. So now that’s four Hornets on Twitter.
@oneandonlyCP3 Chris Paul
@rasualbutler45 Rasual Butler
@tysonchandler Tyson Chandler
@jujubee32 Julian Wright
Butler and Wright seem (from their Twitter feeds) to have been in...
Linkage: A Critique of Lazy Media
July 04, 2009 by
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I missed this post from Minnesota T-Wolves blog Canis Hoopus when it came out a couple days after the draft, but I’m going to link to it anyway because it’s a great rant. It’s about the national media’s treatment of the Ricky Rubio circus, particularly the rampant...
Come Play for Us, Kids! We Have 104 Degree Heat! And Free Hats!
June 26, 2009 by
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We checked out the official Hornets draft party last night down at Gordon Biersch, as some of you who might have been following my Twitter feed already knew. Living in New Orleans we usually try to make it out to as many of the Hornets events as we can.
It was about an hour before the [...]
Hornets Draft Party at Gordon Biersch
June 24, 2009 by
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Come see who the Hornets select with their #21 pick tomorrow night at the official draft party. The fun starts at 6 PM at Gordon Biersch. With celebrity appearances by ticktock6, Chris Paul, and Julian Wright. (What? I’m a celebrity appearance. I mean, Chris Paul’s a cool...
The Hornets, By Draft Position
June 22, 2009 by
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that this year’s draft sucks and the Hornets will not pick up anyone helpful with the 21st pick. Or at least, so everyone says.
In the interest of curiosity, and good ol’ draft week fun, I put the 2008-09 Hornets roster into draft...
White Men Can’t Jump and Other Time-Effacing Thoughts
May 30, 2009 by
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Probably a lot of you that read this site enjoy Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie. I do. Big fan of The Basketball Jones, too. But I caught a video they posted the other day, “Where Amazing Caucasian Happens,” a parody of Kanye West’s alleged-song, “Amazing...
Overtime in Seventeen Haikus
May 27, 2009 by
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So yesterday afternoon I was joking around that, instead of my regular snarky one-liners on Twitter during the game, I would comment upon Cavs/Magic Game 4 entirely in haiku. Well, this didn’t quite pan out the way I expected, since one of my domains got hit by a spammer from...
The Discourse of Lebron.
May 26, 2009 by
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We all got played. Have you ever seen a good Lebron Raymone James (”LRJ”) shot and turned to a friend, and just said, “Witness, dude. Witness.” Have you called him the “Chosen One?” How about “King James”? (I prefer Viscount...
Ode to Odom: Being an Investigation Into the Fab Fashion Stylings of One Lamar Odom
May 20, 2009 by
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So last night after the Lakers defeated the Nuggets in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, I fell asleep for like 2 hours. When I woke up, contacts sticking to my eyes, this is the first thing I saw:
Clearly this was some sleep-induced hallucination. Surely no one would be wacky...
Stay Tuned Tonight for The Travesty, oops, I Mean “Lottery” Draft
May 19, 2009 by
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I get it. Teams alleged tanked ends of seasons to get the #1 pick. They made a lottery to counter. Yeah, that’s really stopped teams. Remember the term “tankapalooza” from the last few years? Riley scouting college games instead of coaching? Right. No...
The Myth of the Playoff Foul
May 14, 2009 by
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Here are things you will hear: “That’s good Playoff basketball.” Or “a good hard Playoff foul.” Perhaps “they tend to let them play in the Playoffs.” Bullshit. Bullshit. And…..********. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’ve...
A Candid Confession of an NBA Blogger
May 08, 2009 by
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The Hype has been quiet lately. Sorry. But the grind of the 82-game season and the subsequent Playoffs emotional rollercoaster doesn’t just take its toll on the players, but sometimes those that follow it. I wish I was a professional journalist, someone who did this for...
Crack. It Kills.
May 04, 2009 by
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I’m not sure even how to react to the fact that someone actually wrote an article entitled “Hornets, Pistons win in Chris Paul trade” which begins:
Joe Dumars should go after New Orleans point guard Chris Paul.
It’s not as outrageous as you might think.
Um,...
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