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Remembering Why I Left Baseball
In the long long ago I was a die-hard baseball fan. From my earliest memories until the age of 10 or so, the Mets were my true love. I was so intense that I remember shooting the television with my BB gun during a particularly trying game against the Braves. At one point I decided […]
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No Deal: NBA Season in Jeopardy
The NBA and players have broken off negotiations without a solution or plans to talk again. You can panic now. NBA owners and players ended negotiations after about five hours Thursday, and no further discussions were scheduled. “Ultimately we were unable to bridge the gap that separates the two parties,” NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver […]
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Dibs on the 2012 Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy
Gotcha, suckas! Yeah, that’s right. I called dibs. I’d like to thank all the people that made this possible: Larry O’Brien, David Stern, The New Orleans Hornets, and, of course, Mortimer K. Dibs. Someone out there is already saying, “You can’t call dibs until the season is canceled.” You are thinking shotgun, my friend. Shotgun […]
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Memo to the NBA
Mathew Tully of the Indianapolis-Star lays out what so many people are thinking— “Memo to the NBA: I speak for many fans when I offer this warning: We’re not coming back. Push us much further and continue to expose your out-of-touch mind-set, and we won’t come back. We understand you have your squabbles over how […]
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Celebrities Who Could Own Part of the Hornets
The 76ers were recently sold to an ownership group in Philadelphia which includes none other then one of their favorite sons, Will Smith. According to Marc Stein, “Smith joins the Sixers in a capacity akin to music mogul Jay-Z’s role with the New Jersey Nets.” With the Hornets ownership still up in the air, one […]
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Complete Speculation: Players and Owners Will Agree on a New CBA Shortly
I can’t help but think the Players Association headed into today’s mediator led meeting with their number one goal being getting a deal done in principle. That definitely looks weird when I put it on paper since one would think that this should have always been their intention, but the history of negotiations makes me […]
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Chris Paul Winds up as ESPN’s Fourth Ranked Player
Chris Paul has come in as the fourth best player in the ESPN’s NBA Rank, finishing as the top point guard. His overall rating was 9.68/10, securing 72/91 possible perfect 10 ratings. Dirk finished fifth with a final ranking of 9.67 (sucker!). Rounding out the top five will be Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Dwight […]
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Add Derrick Rose the List of Scrubs that Chris Paul PWNS
With the official word that Derrick Rose is the NBA’s eighth best player, we can officially bask in the glory of the official Point God, Chris Paul. It is not without debate, though. John Hollinger disagrees with us putting CP3 ahead of Rose. He points to a few simple means of analyzing the players’ differences. […]
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Chris Paul Beats Deron Williams in ESPN’s Player Rank
In what 99% of Hornets fans saw coming (we are the 99%?), Chris Paul has officially outranked Deron Williams in ESPN’s NBA Player Rank. The statistic adds yet another check mark to the side of Paul in the constant comparisons that are made between the two draft mates. D-Will finished number nine overall with a […]
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Life is Short, Careers are Shorter
I’m going to keep this short and sweet, because sometimes life, or death in this case, does a large amount of the talking. IndyCar’s Dan Wheldon died today from injuries suffered in an early race crash in the league’s final race of the year. Dan was a season champ and 2-time and reigning Indy 500 […]
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Does it Matter How Much Money the Players Get?
I’m sure we’ve all heard how unbelievable it is that “millionaires and billionaires” have let dividing revenue get in the way of both sides making lots and lots more money. The problem with that, as ThinkProgress (typically a very liberal political website) points out, is that the feud is actually billionaire owners versus a mix […]
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The Quick Fix
Okay, so yesterday I promised that instead of just bitching about the problems, I will come up with some solutions. And no, I am not just going to steal from others. I’ve got my own out-of-the-box ideas that benefits gives both sides what they want (or at least what they say they want). So after […]
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My self-imposed lockout is over!
Prior to July 1st, it was impossible not to see me everywhere on this site. Ryan and I were pounding out podcasts, I was begging for the Hornets to take the immortal Charles Jenkins in nearly every pre-draft article I wrote, and I was just as guilty as anyone in the free agent/trade speculation department. […]
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Chris Paul Wedding Photos! OMG!
Chris Paul’s wedding photos are public, and goodness gracious they are soooooooo beautiful. I shed two medium sized tears before I even saw Jada Crowley’s shoes. They were…uh… Can we please get some NBA basketball going?
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Love the One You’re With
If you’re down and confused, and you don’t remember who you’re talkin’ to, concentration slip away, ‘cause your baby is so far away. Well there’s a rose in the fisted glove, and the eagle flies with the dove, and if you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with, love […]
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Derek Fisher on the NBA Lockout
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“Pop” Goes the Season
The first 2 weeks of the NBA season have gone the way of the dodo. Today was the last chance for a nearly complete, nearly peaceful savlation. The loss of preseason games can almost be ignored if you just skimp on the bear claws here, a couple of cheese plates there. Regular season games are […]
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Just one thing to say
F@*&t@! horse$&%$@pile of ##@%^$.
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ESPN Writers Rank David West 45th
Longtime Hornets power forward and current free agent, David West, is the 45th ranked NBA player according to ESPN’s team of basketball writers. ESPN recently asked every NBA writer they have at their disposal to rank every single NBA player in the game. Ryan and I both participated, and the results have been tallied and […]
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42 Seconds: Weighing a Purchase
The New Orleans Hornets are for sale, and since these franchises don’t come up for sale too often, I need to think about this while I have the chance; it’s now or never. With the NBA considering contraction, there’s no way expansion is going to give me a clean slate to work with anytime soon. Therefore, it’s […]