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Hornets fan or not, here's 22 reasons to be cheerful on a Monday morning… (Click image for a larger version.) The ladies above were all selected to the Honeybee dance team at the House of Blues in the French Quarter yesterday, and will be responsible for the dancing and the cheering and the looking good […]

So Team USA has begun exhibition play in preparation for the Olympics, destroying Canada 120-65.  The team fielded this year is crazy strong, and I would be astonished if they didn't trash the competition.  One thing, however, has irritated the hell out of me in the coverage of this team:  Jason Kidd is being pushed as […]

The Sacramento Bee is reporting today that Bobby Brown, the star of the Hornet's Summer League team, has signed with the Kings for a two year minimum deal worth a little over a million dollars.  The Hornets did reportedly make a play for Bobby's services, offering him a one year deal, but Brown had received […]

Despite being thoroughly convinced that the NBA Summer League games aren't worth much, I went ahead and watched four of the Hornets games.  Anything to fight the symptoms of basketball withdrawl. I also wanted to watch the players and see if any of them were going to be candidates for immediate trades – like Kirk […]

It's said that fans have a tendency to overrate their own teams players – a tendency that General Managers can fall into as well.  Part of this is due to watching those players every day and developing attachments to pieces and parts of their game.  I love West's baseline fadeaway, the deadly pick and roll […]

Ha ha!  My nefarious plan worked perfectly.  As soon as I said the Hornets would do nothing this off-season, they had to go and prove me wrong.  It's something I love about their front office – they clearly watch for my opinions, and then set out to make me look foolish.  Too bad I'm on to […]

All the signs were there.  I should have known the Hornets wouldn't be making much noise in this off-season.  The finances alone pointed to it.  This team doesn't want to spend past the Luxury Tax line.  As a team with the cheapest ticket in the NBA and one of the smallest markets – they really […]

Just a quick post so everyone has a heads up about the Las Vegas Summer League, which starts today. Julian Wright and Hilton Armstrong are on the Hornets squad, along with Adam Haluska and a bunch of guys I've never heard of. Oh, and as you'd expect, rookie Darrell Arthur isn't on the team because […]

Today we've got a Q&A with the one and only Jim Eichenhofer, who is the publications and new media manager for the Hornets. If you've ever read the Hornets magazine, Hornets.com, or a game program at the Arena, you're probably familiar with Jim's work. Here's what he had to tell us… First of all, can […]

First, let me get this out of the way:  CP3 is signing an extension!  It hasn't been decided on if it's three years or five years – and there are financial reasons he would like either that I won't get into here – but the fact remains, he's in New Orleans for at least 4 more years.  There had been […]

"People never Change" I don't actually believe that.  People can change.  But I do believe that people don't truly change unless something seriously life-altering occurs.   All those seminars to teach people how to be more effective, or more motivated, or more disciplined?  They don't work.  At best, the person may pick up one thing to […]

No new breaking news yet about who the Hornets are pursuing on this, the first day of Free Agency.  There have been rumors here and there that the Hornets will Pursue James Posey of the Celtics or Corey Maggette of the Clippers, but nothing concrete has cropped up. Either of those two players are possible, […]

If you didn't make it to the Hornets draft party last Thursday and you think you didn't miss much, well, you kinda did… (Click each image for a larger version.) (From left to right: Shannon, Martine, Jessica and Krista.) Okay, enough of that. In actual basketball news, free agency begins at midnight tonight, and there's […]

Alright – I've listened to the interview Jeff Bower gave the collective reporters about the trade of the 27th pick to Portland for Cash, and I've got to say I'm a bit irritated. Irritated with the source that broke the news, and more irritated with the Times-Picayune continued coverage of the news.  The T-P reporters […]

I've seen some confusion in various places about what selling the 27th pick means for the Hornets financially. For those of you who want to know these things, this is the financials for the Hornets: The Hornets have $58.8 Million in Salaries currently on the books for Peja, Chandler, West, James, Peterson, Paul, Butler, Armstrong, […]

My prediction was right.  There will be no 1st round pick for the Hornets this year.  No second round pick either, apparently.  Funny, isn't it?  I spent so much time posting about how unlikely(71% chance of a bust) it is to get a viable player from a pick so late in the draft, but when […]

Nobody knows who the Hornets will actually end up picking with the 27th pick in Thursday's NBA Draft — and Ryan suspects they may not be picking at all — but for the sake of passing the time, here's the best YouTube has to offer on four of the most likely prospects… [EDIT: This post […]

This is one of my favorite times of year in the NBA calendar.  I'm a major draft nut, and every day I visit nbadraft.net, DraftExpress, ESPN, and a half-dozen other sites that carry even peripheral information about the draft.  Something about the rampant optimism that leads up to the draft is  attractive to me.  It's […]

Following up on last week's interview and photo shoot with Shannon from the Honeybees, today we've got a sweet wallpaper featuring that very same lady. As usual, Dariusz Ejkiewicz came through with an excellent design in a short space of time. Download links: 1024×768 | 1280×960 Don't forget that you can check out some more […]

Unless something major changes over the next few days with the workouts for the Hornets, I'm feeling pretty certain about one thing: The Hornets won't be drafting in the first round. The Hornets have only brought in three players who are generally accepted as possible 1st round prospects: Mario Chalmers, Gary Forbes and Courtney Lee.  When Lee was […]