The Hornets get started on a three-game home stand tonight at New Orleans Arena, trying to come to terms with the news that Chris Paul will miss at least a month with that knee injury. The Suns come in with a 28-21 record and are just a game ahead of the Hornets in the standings. […]

And just like that one of the best players in the NBA and the top Hornet is unavailable for an entire month.  At first blush, losing Chris Paul makes it likely that the Hornets now have no chance of reaching the playoffs.  But hope springs eternal, and as such, I will embark on a tortured […]

Reports are flying from Yahoo News that Hornets’ superstar guard, Chris Paul, will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery on Monday, and will miss one to two months. The injury is reportedly a partial tear of his meniscus. It’s being reported that the injury is not season ending, but is indeed more serious than the Hornets initially […]

Hey everyone. Joe Gerrity here. Niall and Ryan have asked me to come aboard and contribute more regularly, so here I am. Hope you enjoy the stuff. I’ll be doing some recaps and previews too. Also, I’m in the New Orleans area and will definitely be at the next Hornets watch party, so hopefully I’ll […]

At halftime, I was about ready to turn the game off and go play Mass Effect 2.  The only reason I didn’t was that I wanted to see if Thornton and Collison could get things in gear in the second half.  By the end of overtime, I was on the phone to my buddy, crowing […]

A tough loss for the Hornets last night, and it doesn’t get any easier as they roll into Memphis today to take on a Grizzlies team that has won a franchise-record 11 straight home games. Game tips at 7 Central. We saw the Grizzlies in New Orleans just ten days ago, when Chris Paul dropped […]

With the Hornets locked in combat with the Grizzlies for the tail end of the playoff picture, I thought it would be nice to get more insight into the Grizzlies by hammering Chip Crain of 3 Shades of Blue with questions about Gay, Randolph, Gasol, Conley, and it strays to what happened with Allen Iverson […]

That last play of regulation was crushing.  The Hornets have run that play a dozen times, but tonight three things went wrong.  First, West overthrew Paul by too much, forcing him to sprint into the crowd to catch it, Marcus Thornton went towards the basket behind the guy covering him rather than giving Paul a […]

Home sweet Dome. Or next door at least. Hornets back in the Big Easy tonight to take on a Devin Brown’s new ball club. Game tips at 7 Central. The Bulls are 22-22 on the season, 8-15 on the road. They’ve been looking good recently with a 4-game winning streak, all of those wins coming […]

I’ve been pretty open that I really like what Jeff Bower did with the roster this season.  Over the summer, pundits were talking armageddon for the Hornets, insisting that they weren’t likely to be able to get under the Luxury Tax line without trading David West – or more ridiculously – Chris Paul. Instead, Bower […]

The Hornets wrapped up their four-game road trip with a 123-110 win over the Warriors tonight. There’s an unusually big gap there in the final score, but rest assured that the Hornets tried their best to make it a close game by letting a 27-point lead with 7 minutes remaining be whittled down to as […]

Tonight will be the last game of what has been a highly-entertaining road trip so far for the Hornets. Anyone expecting a blowout? Me neither. The Warriors are 13-30 on the season, 9-11 at home. They’ve lost six of their last eight, the two wins coming against the visiting Bulls and Nets. G-State are still […]

We asked Matt McHale of Bulls’ blog By The Horns (also part of the TrueHoop Network) to give us his expert take on big man Aaron Gray, who the Hornets acquired from Chicago on Monday in exchange for Devin Brown. McHale kindly obliged: Aaron Gray didn’t see many minutes in Chicago, and there are reasons […]

First, we need to address one thing:  The trade for Aaron Gray was not financially motivated.  With no Ike Diogu, and Hilton Armstrong  a bust, the Hornets wanted a backup center, but didn’t want to move any real pieces.  So they got what they could for a 32-year old Devin Brown who is probably at […]

Ah, them Hornets. Completely and utterly incapable of playing a boring game of basketball these days. Tonight’s one-point victory in Portland was their ninth win by five points or less… this month! To boot, they’ve only lost four games in January, at most by 7 points, and two of those losses were in OT. Ain’t […]

As New Orleans basks in the unprecedented glow of the Saints being Superbowl-bound, the Hornets are some 2000 miles Northwest and about to do battle with the Portland Trail Blazers. Game tips at 9 p.m. Central. The Blazers are 27-18 overall, but just 6-5 in January. They’re 16-7 at home this season and coming off […]

Basketball is a deceptively simple game.  On offense, five guys work together to generate a good shot for a player who can knock it down.  On defense, five guys work together to try and make the opposing team take bad shots, and miss them.  Simple, right? The concept may be simple, but for a long […]

On the second night of a back to back, the Hornets went into Denver to take on a team that has only lost 3 times on its home court.  Missing David West, they took the game to overtime, and then fell short as the guy they were leaving to double Carmelo(Afflalo) hit two big threes […]

A tougher test for the the Hornets tonight as they take on the Denver Nuggets way up in the Rockies. Segababa, coming off two skin-of-your-teeth wins, should be fun. Game tips at 8 Central. The 28-14 Nuggets are flying high at the top of the Western Conference, trailing only the defending champs. They’ve won five […]

I can’t help but smile a big stupid smile after that game. 48 hours after knocking in the buzzer-beating game-winner against the Grizzlies, James Posey came through again in the clutch, faking a hand off to Chris Paul with three seconds left before creaking down the lane and scoring the layup to beat the T’Wolves. […]