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Hornets Power Rankings Week Six
It feels as if there is nothing to celebrate this week as one could not draw up a worst case scenario for the last two weeks. Losers of 6 of their last 8 after an 11-1 start isn’t even the worst news that fans of this team have had to endure. Stories about attendance benchmarks, […]
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Magic Johnson Should Consider Buying the Hornets
The NBA is looking for a new Hornets owner, and Magic Johnson’s interest in purchasing an NBA team is well documented. His recent sale of Starbucks franchises and shares in the Lakers netted him around 100 million dollars in cash, so it’s inevitable that someone is going to ask the question of why not buy […]
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The Spurs crushed the Hornets
Chris Paul came to play. I’d like to leave it there. Or maybe go to the “Both Teams played Hard” standby that Rasheed Wallace went to, but that would be a lie. The Spurs played hard. The Hornets, for the first seven minutes of the game, didn’t play hard. The middle two quarters of the […]
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Game On: Hornets @ Spurs
Before I get to the game, I wanted to address one thing. For those of you who aren’t aware, there are rumors flying hot and heavy that the NBA could be purchasing the Hornets from George Shinn at any moment. Yeah, the NBA, not Chouest or some other buyer. Crazy, eh? Questions, questions, questions. Are […]
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Building a Contender: PART 3 “Ranking the Hornets Potential Targets”
I welcome you all, Hornet fans, to a new edition of “Building a Contender”. I am your fellow blogger, AgentZiko, the annoying kid who’s been spending WAY too much time in hornets247.com and leaving tons of annoying comments on blogs for you all to read. =) Before I start, I would like to […]
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Introducing Homegrown Night
The Hornets, more than any NBA team, put on quite a show for their fans. Nobody else does pregame parties every game with live music. There isn’t another team that gives free beer to their season ticket holders, while charging only a dollar for everyone else. There are inflatable games and basketball hoops outside the […]
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Sonics Fans Make Me Throw Up a Little Bit in My Mouth
Take a look at any comment section of any article related to the Hornets sale and what do you see? Three hundred comments from Sonics fans about how the Hornets are moving there. They say New Orleans doesn’t have basketball history. They say we can’t support a team and point to the New Orleans Jazz […]
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Chris Paul Becoming more Aggressive is not the Answer
There is a common fear building amongst Hornets fans and it concerns the best player in franchise history. Now that losing has become a part of the Hornets reality again and the days of sitting atop of the NBA standings seem like a distant memory, fans want to know why victories are suddenly so hard […]
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Knicks Continue their Domination over the Hornets
After two long years of losses, the Hornets should have wanted it more. The Knicks took them down 100-92 behind a strong performance by Amare Stoudemire. In a word, the Hornets were apathetic. Monty wasn’t aggressive late with his substitutions and was content to just let lesser players stay on while the team got closer […]
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Gotta Support the Team . . .
Writers have been saying for years that New Orleans is not a pro sports town, and that we won’t keep the Saints or the Hornets. Some even say we don’t deserve them. I’m sick and tired of it. You know who can’t support professional sports? L.A. They let 2 NFL teams walk (in the past […]
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Game On: Knicks @ Hornets
Matchup: Knicks (10-9) @ Hornets (13-5) Off Efficiency: Hornets 103.6(15th), Knicks 107.7 (6th) Def Efficiency: Hornets 98.4(2nd), Knicks 105.9 (19th) Thanks to the amazing Dariusz Ejkiewicz for the Game Day Banner. The theme of the night will be conflicting styles, as the Knicks bring their fast paced offense (2nd fastest) to New Orleans (4th slowest). […]
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Eff the Hornets Attendance Problem
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. Not because I’m worried about the team actually being moved, or because the seemingly arbitrary (although probably not) number of 14,735 is particularly meaningful to me. No, it’s because I’m sick of playing defense. I’m sick of having to defend New Orleans as a basketball city. […]
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Hornets Sale?
Sending out Love for my Hornets all the way from Australia, Been a Hornets supporter since 1992. I was wondering if anybody out there has heard any rumors about George Shinn selling his part of the franchise to Garry Chouest, last I heard it could happen before the end of the year. With recent reports that […]
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Hornets Beat the Bobcats
As expected, the Hornets beat the Bobcats 89-73 before what very well may have been the sparsest crowd since 2007. I’m fairly good at estimating crowd size, and it’s quite possible that everyone in attendance could have fit in the lower bowl tonight. I can’t express my frustration with the crowd issues in writing right […]
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Game On: Bobcats @ Hornets
Matchup: Bobcats (6-11) @ Hornets (12-5) Off Efficiency: Hornets 103.6(15th), Bobcats 103.8 (14th) Def Efficiency: Hornets 99.2(3rd), Bobcats 104.4 (15th) Thanks to the amazing Dariusz Ejkiewicz for the Game Day Banner. The Hornets look to end a two game slide (their longest of the year) tonight against the Charlotte Bobcats. After winning 11 of their […]
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Through 17 Games . . .
Through 17 games . . . we needed to show something. Why? Someone made that up, but they were pretty adamant about it. It was noted very early on that we needed a hot start. But how could we? Chris, we were told, didn’t want to play here. We weren’t good enough, we weren’t smart […]
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This is for 42… and QueenBee too!
Ok… So I’ve been getting ROASTED by Mr. Moderator, 42, and Ms. Queen Bee, QueenBee for saying that CP3 hasn’t looked the same to me ever since I saw him tweak his knee at the end of the Houston Rockets game. I have PERSONALLY felt that he has been tentative for a long stretch of […]