I’m asking – no, begging – all of you living in the New Orleans area to find out just who is putting the grisly gris-gris on the Hornets – and to put a stop to it.

Okafor and Diogu haven’t played a game yet.  Songaila left last game with an injury, and now John Reid of the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting Julian Wright and David West left Wednesday practice with their own injuries.

So please, do what you can.  I’ll do my part by refraining from my oft-repeated statement:”Injuries won’t be as big a problem this year as they were last, right?”  No reason to keep temptin’ fate.