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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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“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 […]
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Two Fun Videos for the Weekend
With the Owners unwilling to even meet with the Players until they agree to a 50-50 split in BRI, and the Players signaling that they aren’t on board with that, we are left with the near certainty that the NBA season will not be starting on time. Oh well. They can take our regular season, […]
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The NBA: From a league, player AND a positive fan’s perspective
I’m going to take this time to take a little break from the lockout. Even though I’m not Jewish, I do realize that lots of owners and agents are and that as a result, there won’t be any negotiations in the next couple days as they want to observe Yom Kippur. Therefore I’ll do the […]
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Feeling angst about a short free agency period
You can view the current lockout optimistically, buying that the owners and players both want this enough to forge a last-minute deal to save the season. You could also view the lockout pessimistically, and listen to the rumors there are hardcore owners who want to break the NBA union and will lose games to do […]
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Hey NBA: Let Bill Clinton Come Up With a Plan
Have you ever wondered how the two sides in the NBA Labor Dispute can possibly be so adamantly opposed to anywhere near the middle? Considering they are obviously going to end up pretty much right next to there, it’s getting a little silly to let billions of dollars slip through the cracks this year and […]
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Remember To Check Out Niall’s Blog and Saints247
Just a friendly reminder that Saints247, Hornets247’s sister site dedicated to the New Orleans Saints, is up and running. Although there isn’t much going on between the NBA Owners and the Players Association, the NFL long ago reached a compromise and has since become referred to regularly as one entity again. If you like the […]
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The NBA Season Won’t Be Starting On Time
The most recent news is nothing but disappointing. Despite days of talking, nothing real seems to have been accomplished. I’ll let ESPN tell you the rest. The progress players and owners had been hoping for to save the 2011-12 NBA season did not materialize in collective bargaining talks on Tuesday, union president Derek Fisher said. […]