Wow! Chris Paul and David West were just announced as All-Star reserves live on TNT. Chris Paul, we knew you were due. Congrats on your first, dude. I'm sure you'll be back for many more. But how about David West? Damn, I didn't see that coming. No doubt in my mind that he deserves it, […]

My defense of Morris Peterson was more popular than I thought it would be, getting linked by Truehoop and Kelly Dwyer at Yahoo! and was mentioned on The Basketball Jones podcast.  So here's a little follow-up posting my full table of 5th options.  Again, this list was created by taking the lowest-scoring player with starts in at least half their team's games.  […]

3:21 left in the game tonight, the Hornets trailing by nine points. Baron Davis pulls up and sinks a long three over Jannero Pargo and Chris Paul. As folks start heading for the exits, I scribble down four words in my notes… Baron. Deep. Salt. Wounds. This game was strange in many ways. Firstly, we […]

The Golden State Warriors are in New Orleans tonight, and that means we get to welcome Baron Davis back to the Big Easy for the first time since we traded him for, well, pretty much nothing back in 2005. Of course, we done picked up the anti-Baron in the draft a few months later and […]

Before I get to the game preview against the Golden State Warriors tonight, I wanted to address some complaints I've seen about Peterson's performance for the Hornets.  It appears very easy for the casual fan to take a look at his scoring average this season and dismiss him as a bad signing and a poor […]

I stumbled across this blog today, where an interesting idea be brewing… "My challenge to Mr Shinn: Have one game a year in the Superdome, let it count toward the average attendance benchmark, and I'll buy two season tickets." Could this really work? The writer, Ashley Morris, asked John DeShazier of the Times-Picayune for his […]

Everyone knows Mikey. He's the New Orleans Hornets mega-fan who yells his head off at every home game (and the odd road game within driving distance) and always has a comment or three for radio host Joe Block at the postgame show at Gordon Biersch. The dude always has something to say. But, with 3:34 […]

The Hornets will try to keep the good times rolling tonight as they host Allen Iverson and the Denver Nuggets at the New Orleans Arena. Our guys are coming off Saturday's superfunky win in San Antonio, while the Nuggs dropped one in Dallas yesterday. The Nuggets have been without Carmelo Anthony for the past few […]

Before we get to tonight's game – the newest version of the Bloggers MVP and Rookie of the Year voting is up over at Pickaxe and Roll. I took part again, and CP has risen. Yay me and CP. In an odd coincidence, Pickaxe and Roll is also a blogger for the team we go […]

The Hornets stretched their winning streak to 8 last night while crushing the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio by 24 points. The Hornets, despite playing quality opponents like San Antonio, Golden State, Phoenix, Portland and Houston, have only lost one game this entire month – an aberrant drubbing at the hands of the Lakers. […]

What the Hornets did in San Antonio last night was nothing short of pure dominance. Our guys rolled into town with a swagger and may have finally convinced the basketball world that New Orleans is for real. How can we be ignored after handing the defending champs their biggest loss of the season on their […]

The Hornets are in San Antonio today to face the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. They've got Tim Duncan, Tony Longoria, Manu Ginobili and some other dudes, but methinks we can take 'em. After last night's defeat of the Clippers in New Orleans, the Hornets have won seven straight overall. We've also got a seven-game […]

I'll keep this one short and sweet because there's way too much fun to be had in this town right now, and it ain't good for the social life to be inside typing all day. Carnival season is in full swing in New Orleans, and there have been parades rolling past my place all day. […]

The LA Clippers are in New Orleans today to play the Hornets. Should we win, we'll have a big and sexy seven-game winning streak heading to San Antonio tomorrow. This is the third of four meetings between the Hornets and Clippers this season. We won the previous two out in LA, by 9 points and […]

I've got a lot to do tomorrow, and I doubt I'll have time to generate a game preview in the morning for the San Antonio Spurs.  So today, I'm going to generate a double game preview covering both games.  I'm crazy like that. Here we go! Matchups: Clippers(13-25) @ Hornets(29-12) @ Spurs(28-13)Offense: Clips 97.5(29th), Hornets 106.5(10th), […]

Just a quick post to let all you super-fantastic people know about the launch of CP3TV.com. To quote the press release, CP3TV.com is "a behind-the-scenes look into the life of Chris Paul as a professional basketball player away from the court. Through a season-long series of short webisodes, Paul will provide viewers with an all-access […]

Wow! That one was fun to watch. The Hornets and Blazers are both playing some great basketball this season and this match-up didn't disappoint. Well, maybe it disappointed Blazer fans, but everyone else went home happy. Gonna switch it up a little again with this recap. Instead of pouring out the game-flow notes, I'll just […]

For tonight's game against the Blazers, we're gonna try something new. Well, new for us, because other NBA blogs have been doing this for forever. This post will serve as our gameday thread. Feel free to voice all your thoughts and observations about tonight's game in the comments below, and I'll throw a quick update […]

Game PreviewMatchup: Blazers(25-16) @ Hornets(28-12)Off Efficiency: Blazers 105.3(13th), Hornets 106.3 (9th)Def Efficiency: Blazers 104.0(20th), Hornets 100.0 (3rd)Bloggers: Blazers Edge First, I'll need to dispel an illusion created by comparing the two team's efficiencies like I did up above.  These teams are not as far apart as it looks. It is generally accepted by Basketball stat guys, whether […]

The Portland Trailblazers find their way into New Orleans tomorrow, right now the only team in the league able to claim they've beaten the Hornets twice.  They are a young, rising team like ours, so I figured I'd bombard Dave at Blazer's Edge with a few questions about his team. Hornets247: Nate McMillan never seems […]