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Our old friend Baron Davis is back in town with his Golden State Warriors today, and they'll meet our Hornets for an early one at the Arena. It's a nationally televised game, so America will get to see a fine crowd in attendance and hopefully another Hornets victory. A win would of course give us […]

Not only is today, April 5th, the Hornets' 21st birthday, but it's also Unsung Player Day. To mark the occasion, I've decided to sing about Peja Stojakovic. I tried to learn Peja's favorite Serbian song — you know, the one about the shoe polish — so I could make a music video and post some […]

Twenty-one years ago today, George Shinn's phone rang. He answered to find NBA Commissioner David Stern on the line. The commish wanted to inform Shinn that a decision had been made on his application for an NBA franchise in Charlotte, North Carolina… "Congratulations." April 5th, 1987. The birth of the Hornets.

Hello, Playoffs. The win over the Knicks tonight at New Orleans Arena ensured some teal in the postseason for the first time since 2004. The Hornets, who finished with just 18 wins three seasons ago and were left out in the cold during last year's Playoffs, became the first team in the insanely tough Western […]

The Hornets are finally back at the New Orleans Arena tonight, ready to face the hapless New York Knicks. A win will clinch us a Playoff spot, whereas a loss wouldn't make much sense. Game info… Hornets (W-L): 52-22 Knicks (W-L): 20-55 Game Time: 7:00pm Central. TV: CST locally, League Pass elsewhere. Radio: KMEZ 102.9 […]

The Hornets wrapped up an unprecedented road trip in Miami yesterday. That demolition of the Heat gave them five victories on the trip; something no team in franchise history could claim before. To show our appreciation for a job well done, a group of us fans decided to show up at Louis Armstrong International last […]

About the mid-point of the season I did an evaluation of which teams had improved the most from last season, basing the ranking on the Defensive and Offensive Efficiencies of the teams from year to year.  Now that we are near the end of the season, and the numbers probably won't fluctuate much any more, […]

The Hornets played a rather uninspiring three quarters of basketball tonight, but the reserves came in and turned it into a blowout in the fourth quarter, thus ensuring a franchise-best fifth win on the road trip. Half-assed notes for a half-assed performance… Final score was 106-77 ( recap | box score | standings ). The […]

Ryan's busy today, so we're lacking his positional analysis ahead of the Miami game this evening. Here's my abbreviated version: Point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, center and bench: advantage Hornets. Yeah, the Heat are that bad. They've lost 15 of 17 coming into this one, and have managed to score an average […]

Crazy win in Orlando tonight. You might even say we stole this one. It came down to the Hornets trailing 92-95 with a minute and five remaining. Mo Evans gets called for a foul on Mo Peterson as the latter breaks into the backcourt for the inbound. Foul away from the ball; that's one shot […]

Two games left in this, the longest road trip of the season for the Hornets. They'll wrap it up in Florida, playing the Orlando Magic tonight and the Miami Heat tomorrow. The Heat suck, the Magic don't. Instead of an image today, we'll go with a random video clip from the last time the Hornets […]

After the dazzling ten thousand visits we received from our American Idol post, Ron and I decided to take a long look at what we're doing here at Hornets247.  We have come to a decision, and while we still love the Hornets and everything they stand for, we both realized we love lots of website […]

This post started out with an entirely different focus.  After I read Bill Livingston's article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and he referred to Peja Stojakovic as a 'traffic cone with legs' I had decided I was going to create a post defending Peja's defense.  Announcers just kill Peja regularly about his defense, but often I […]

A nice showing by the Hornets up in Toronto this evening, where they led the Raptors by double digits for most of the game and wound up with win number 50 on the season. Unfortunately, our bench decided to suck major ass in the fourth quarter and almost blew a 22-point lead. In a move […]

The Hornets will try bounce back from their loss in Boston on Friday when they take on the Raptors in Toronto this evening. The Raps are led by All-Star forward Chris Bosh, who's very excited about playing the basketball… Game info… Hornets (W-L): 49-22 Raptors (W-L): 37-35 Game Time: 5:00pm Central. TV: CST Radio: KMEZ […]

The Celtics got revenge on us on Friday, and now its our turn to get revenge on the Raptors for a defeat we suffered back in December.  It was one of those rare close losses we've had this year where I walked away thinking we should have won.  Let's hope the guys put it together […]

What can I say? All teams have those nights. Tonight was a life lesson. Sometimes life lessons come in the form of ass-whippings. Indeed. The Hornets got paid back for their defeat of the Celtics last week, getting blown out by the C's up in Boston last night. It was all good at halftime, with […]

The Hornets go into the Lion's Den tonight, travelling to Boston to take on the Celtics, one week removed from beating them in New Orleans. I think there is no question that both teams are going to be going hard in this one – Boston for revenge, Hornets for respect. Currently the Hornets are the […]

Some link-heavy shizzle for your good selves on a fine Thursday evening… After the Cavs-Hornets highlights this morning, ESPN showed Chris Paul's stats in games against other MVP-candidates this season. Against Garnett, Kobe and LeBron, CP has averaged 22 points, 13.2 assists, 3.7 boards, 3.2 steals and just 1.8 turnovers. His shooting hasn't been great […]

What a finish. I was just about ready to criticize David West's performance against the Cavaliers tonight. He couldn't get a body on Anderson Varejao all game, didn't get his first rebound until the third quarter, passed up several open jumpers, shot the ball poorly and never figured out the double teams down low. But […]