The Hornets will need to cut about 10million in salary space.  With a Salary Cap around 55 Million next year, the following teams will be significantly below the cap and able to take on salary freely next season: Atlanta – 40 Mil, Qualifying offer to Marvin Williams for 7Mil outstanding Detroit – 34 Mil Memphis […]

Before we get to the meat of this post, I do want to say speculationg about trading Peja makes me feel a little sad.  I like Peja, and I think he’s still a valuable player.  Unfortunately, I also think he is redundant, and that Posey, Butler, or in some respects, Julian Wright, can provide similar […]

I love trade speculation as much as the next guy.  Usually, I don’t share my ideas  much, because I’ll admit I have an eye biased towards the Hornets, and that makes my trades a little lame.  Well, this year I’m going to share anyways.  Hope you enjoy them. I’ve been working on a series of […]

Since the end of the season and the Game That Will Not Be Named, the knee-jerk reaction of a lot of fans to the question “What do the Hornets need” has been “everything”.  I’d prefer to go with a much more quantifiable list, so I’ve put together what I think is a pretty solid set.  […]

In my last installment of Valuations of Hornet’s players under contract for 2009-2010, I’ll focus on the team’s ballhandlers.  One of the oddities(and weaknesses perhaps) about last year’s Hornets was just how easily the players fit into my three favorite categories of Bigs, Wings and Ballhandlers.  They just weren’t a really versatile bunch, with only […]

I was watching the Conference Finals a bit over the weekend, and I had a funny thought I figured I’d share. Where did all the power forwards go? Seriously.  In this round of the playoffs, every team but the Lakers field a set of fours that don’t exactly provide a complete set of those skills […]

Though the Hornet’s front court was paper thin – there was no question that the Hornet’s got the least amount of production out of its stable of Wing Players.  A few days ago I did my valuation of the Hornet’s Big Men.  Here’s my comprehensive valuation of those players in an effort to figure out […]

Before I get to what the Hornets need, I’m going to spend a little time on what they have – and what they are worth.  There are 10 players under guaranteed contracts for next year, and one player, Devin Brown, who(I believe, I’m struggling finding confirmation about this) has a player option to return next […]

All of the NBA’s regular season awards have now been announced.  Chris Paul landed himself on the 1st Team Defensive squad, the 2nd Team All-NBA squad, Fifth in the MVP Voting, and 6th in the Defensive Player of the Year award. That’s an impressive set of awards, but I’ll be honest: CP3 deserved the 1st […]

Back in October, I wrote a sunny piece about Jeff Bower, talking about how he’d worked with Byron Scott to build a great team.  Though there are a few items in it that make me look a bit silly now(I trashed Denver’s GM) the central theme of the post was about Bower’s ability to juggle […]

I was talking with my buddy Josh about the Hornets yesterday, and he mentioned that he thought everything had gotten a little morose since the end of the season.  He thought that maybe I should try to inject a little levity into things, and you know, he’s right.  It’s kinda silly how much doom and […]

This one is hard for me to write.  I think I’ve changed my mind three times over just the last weekend about whether I think Byron Scott should go or not.  There are perfectly valid reasons why he should go.  There are perfectly valid reasons why he shouldn’t.  In an effort to fully evaluate Byron […]

Unlike last season, which ended with happiness, hope and high expectations for the next year, this season ended with disappointment, pessimism and a spectacular disaster.  Things had gotten so bad over the past month or so that I’ll admit I felt a weird sort of relief when the Hornet’s lost last night.  Sad, but true. […]

(If you’re new, check the top of this post for an explanation of these news wraps.) A.M. Updates John Hollinger from ESPN’s Daily Dime … I’m sorry, but the New Orleans Hornets’ performance was one of the most pathetic efforts I’ve ever seen, and the fact that it came in a home playoff game with […]

I’ve watched almost every minute of Hornets Basketball for about five years now – excepting games where my transmission(or TIVO skills) failed.  I saw every game of the 18-64 season, and even in blowout losses, I don’t turn games off in the fourth. The game is still going on right now.  TIVO isn’t recording.  I’m […]

The Hornets try to even the series tonight and send it back to Denver as a best of three contest.  Paul now has a sore knee – as does Posey.  Let’s see if they can gut one out – or maybe West can finish some of those layups he generated last game, and help carry […]

The Hornets return home, down two, and the odds and history are against them coming back and taking this series.  However, there are still some reasons for optimism, so I’m going to keep this post light and hopeful.(And no, I’m not going to bash the refs.  Never had much use for that.) 6 Reasons the Hornets […]

My optimism is pretty much all played out after these two games.  There’s a lot that could be said about the game, but I’ll just list a set of five and let those of you who are up to it fill in the rest. I can’t remember a single Hornet fast break before the bench […]

All season long, there have been “big games”.  Games to lock up the playoffs.  Games to determine seeding.  Revenge games to get back at the Magic for their Christmas Day Massacre.  I have tried to avoid calling regular season games big, but I know I haven’t entirely succeeded. Here’s the thing, though:  tonight’s game is […]

The Nuggets came out poorly, rushing shots, turning the ball over and generally looking pretty jittery.  If not for Billups having an absolutely crazy game shooting the ball, they would have been down after that first quarter.  The second quarter was about the same . . . and then the wheels fell off. That third […]