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That was my weekend. Too much airport, not enough women, but a good time nonetheless.

I think I picked a good time to take a break too, because while I was away, pretty much nothing happened with the Hornets. Let's review… 

• Chris Paul has been busy with Team USA over in Asia somewhere. They've played all five exhibition games now, winning all five, four convincingly. They played Lithuania on Sunday, where a guy by the name of Arvydas Macijauskas scored a massive 12 points on 2-of-7 shooting, missing all three of his three-pointers. Whatever.

  Paul's stats aren't exactly jaw-dropping for the national team. Through four games, he was averaging 6.3ppg and 4.3apg in about 19 minutes a night. His shooting has been solid though, and the team is winning so no worries. Check the stats here.

  The games start for real on the 19th in Japan.

• Add Tony Mejia of CBS Sportsline.com to the growing list of people who don't think Peja Stojakovic is worth $64 million over five years. Usually I'd be a prick and make a joke at Mejia's expense right about here, but we all know he's right: Peja's contract is going to be a gigantic pain in the ass three years from now. Oh well.

  (Mejia also takes a shot at the Bobby Jackson deal in part two of the above article.)

• John DeShazier speaks well of George Shinn, which is strange. Must have gotten laid or something.

And that's pretty much it. You guys were doing fine without me. This offseason thing is really starting to suck.