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Hornets Beat: Examining the New CBA
Hornets Beat is back with a bang this week. We’re rocking five straight days of 5-on-5 discussion to catch you up on everything you need to know going into this season. Read The Beat every day this week, follow the Hornets podcast, and yak it up with fellow fans at HornetsReport and you’ll be as […]
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In the NO Podcast Episode 38: Loving the CBA in all the wrong places
The guys return for the 2011-2012 season as the CBA is tentatively agreed on. Â Ryan, Michael and special guest Jason Calmes sink their teeth into the CBA, talk about how it impacts the boys in Creole Blue and the rest of the league. Â Also, prepare to be disgusted by Michael. Â Like usual.
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It’s Tomorrow for Hornets Fans: Time to Think About Chris Paul
On Saturday Michael wrote about how great it was that a new CBA has been agreed upon by the Players and Owners, who will now be collectively known as the NBA. One problem? It doesn’t help the Hornets keep Chris Paul. Let’s review. No hard cap (or anything even close) Luxury tax penalties will start […]
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Link to the Tentative Deal
Right here. We’ll be analyzing it in depth throughout the next few weeks.
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Be happy about the deal today; worry about Paul tomorrow
As predicted, the second that this new deal was announced, Hornets fans started wondering what it’s impact would be on the future of Chris Paul. Of course, national writers haven’t made it any easier as they make allusions to what the allowance of extend-and-trade deals will mean for Chris Paul and Dwight Howard, but that […]
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CBA Framework Established, More Work to Do
Details will follow over the course of the next few days, and this thing can be derailed by a number of factors, but a CBA framework has been established. This means the BRI split and major system issues have been agreed upon by the negotiators. The lawyers, antitrust folks, etc. weren’t in on this. This […]
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Christmas Has to Come Now or Never
I’ve been complaining all week and more about the extension of Christmas into the Rhineland and on towards the Paris of Thanksgiving’s season. This is not because I could possibly care less about either holiday . . . I could not . . . but because it is just pure subjugation of the season to […]
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Chris Paul to Host Homecoming Tour Game in New Orleans
((42 sense: The date for this, which was the 4th, not the 7th, has been changed to the 3rd, likely to avoid a conflict with the Saints-Lions game on the 4th. Who: NBPA folks, including New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul What: A charity exhibition game When: December 3rd, noon Where: UNO Lakefront Arena Why: […]
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Chris Paul to Play in Obama’s Star Studded Basketball Fundraiser
President Obama’s fundraising arm, the Obama Victory Fund, has announced that they will be holding a celebrity basketball event on December 12th. Yay. Another chance to watch the players pretend to play a basketball game while really just taking turns on offense. Sick. Of. It. Not so sick that I stopped reading. After all, this […]
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CNN Poll Shows General Public Blames Players Over Owners by Wide Margin
Yesterday’s poll on CNN.com asked readers to assign blame for the NBA lockout, and by an overwhelming margin CNN viewers (who I imagine are fairly representative of the average person) chose both. When I last checked the poll, 24,460 votes had been cast. 5459 (22%) went with the players. Exactly 3000 (12%) chose just the […]
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I am Not a Number . . . I am a Free Man!
In both the spirit of the NBA lockout and the spirit of being a contrarian, I’ve decided to end a lockout even if I can’t end the lockout. So gone are the days of being the prisoner trapped inside a numbered cell. No . . . I’ll leave that to the other arenas of my […]
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Lockout Remains: NBAPA Files Disclaimer of Interest
The Players Union immediately stops representing the Players. Boom goes the collective bargaining process. To litigation we go. There was no vote amongst all players, just player reps, who this reportedly still hadn’t even made contact with all of the players they represent. The unions lawyers are “stellar” according to Billy Hunter. One of them, […]
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What the proposed CBA means to the Hornets and Chris Paul
ESPN has obtained a copy of the seven page offer that the players plan on discussing, and possibly voting on, at some point today. It might be pointless to break down this current proposal, as speculation continues to grow that the players will turn down this latest offer and push for decertification, but what else […]
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Hornets247 Server Upgrades
I know the site has been slow for a long, long time. We all know. It’s been a real pain in the you know what, but those days are done. We’re moving to a brand new dedicated server shared only with Saints247 and Hornets Report. This will enable us to handle the high traffic periods […]
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Your Daily Dunk
True Story- We don’t do a daily dunk normally (maybe next season?). If we did, this would be today’s entry. Jeremy Lamb says HELLO!
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Five Storylines Sure to Rock the World of New Orleans Hornets Fans
Whenever this silly lockout does come to a conclusion, New Orleans Hornets fans are going to find themselves right in the middle of some pretty serious stories that will likely determine the long and short term future of the franchise as a whole. Ha! You thought the lockout was a big deal? That was just […]
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David Stern Will Make a New, Better Offer To Players Tonight
According to Adrian Wojnarowski and confirmed by Ken Berger, David Stern will deliver a revised deal tonight to the Players. It will be based on ongoing negotiations and not the reset offer that was detailed in his previous ultimatum. Hornets fans everywhere are holding their collective breaths in anticipation of arguably the most acceptable offer […]
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Night of the Living Deadline
After meeting for 12 hours on deadline day, the small groups representing the NBA and NBPA could not agree to the framework for a collective bargaining agreement. Stern said nothing was worked out and that there are many issues other than the five points believed to be the most important. Silver indicated the system and […]
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Apples to Basketball
If the NBA isn’t going on, I don’t care much for watching basketball. ESPN ran another poll asking people if they would be watching more college basketball in the event of a prolonged NBA lockout, and for nearly two-thirds (63%) of respondents the answer was some form of a yes. For me though, the answer […]
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A Quick Graphic That the NBA, Both Players and Owners, Should Check Out
With fans waiting on pins and needles for the Owners’ Wednesday deadline, it might serve everyone involved in the actual negotiations to think about this recent ESPN poll. Keep in mind that it refers to “permanent” damage to the league’s popularity. If there isn’t a season this year, I probably will have to seriously reconsider […]