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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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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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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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Life Goes On
Tonight the NBA won’t be tipping off. This will trigger a cascade of other non-happenings around the world. People won’t be donning their gear, heading to their arenas, and dreaming of defeating the hated whomevers. Restaurants and bars won’t be brimming with fans, ready to take a load off and relax from the daily grind. […]
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42 Seconds: Serendipity
I’ve rarely been falsely accused of being upbeat, optimistic, etc. I’ve believed something good was going to happen because I didn’t have enough information, but that’s not the same thing. Of late, however, I seem to have a spring in my step, at least compared to the people I converse with about the NBA, or, […]
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Sucker for a good tease
Joe G. likes to put up videos that reflect his current mood. Well, here is mine… I swore that after talks broke off last week that I was done listening to any kind of rhetoric from either side and that I would just assume the season was lost, and nothing short of a signed deal […]
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Covering Lockout Coverage
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Satire VI I read alot. Anyone who’s been around Hornets247 since Ryan pulled the “Hold this for a minute” trick on me with the news about 13 months ago, or around Hornets Report since we started our alliance about 5 months ago, has gotten a feel […]
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Dibs on the 2012 Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy
Gotcha, suckas! Yeah, that’s right. I called dibs. I’d like to thank all the people that made this possible: Larry O’Brien, David Stern, The New Orleans Hornets, and, of course, Mortimer K. Dibs. Someone out there is already saying, “You can’t call dibs until the season is canceled.” You are thinking shotgun, my friend. Shotgun […]
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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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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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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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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. […]
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Watch Chris Paul’s Charity Game Online – Free
Sorry for the late link. Enjoy.
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42 Seconds: Add One Cap, Remove Another
In recent days, the focus of many articles, if not the no-go-tiations themselves, has been the imposition of a real salary cap and changes to the revenue sharing model, Previously, there seemed to be many issues on the table, such as the BRI split, all getting about equal play with revenue sharing getting few mentions. […]
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Ushering Out?: Nathaniel and Britney
Today the NBA will cancel preseason games. Most people don’t seem too upset about the loss of the exhibition games, except for what their demise may foreshadow. The loss of these games, however, is concretely mostly irreplaceable income for many Arena workers. The lockout has already hit many team employees, not all of whom are […]
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42 Seconds: The New Orleans Hornets are a Model Franchise
As one might expect, I spend a good deal of time thinking about the New Orleans Hornets. Among the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune the franchise and the ‘fanchise’ have endured, the de facto foreclosure by the NBA is not only unprecedented in NBA history, but also potentially a structurally important nail in the […]
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The Costs, Benefits, and Purpose of Expanding the NBA Draft
I initially dismissed a claim in an article that the NBA owners wanted a third round to the NBA draft. I didn’t dismiss the reporter’s claim; I dismissed the owners’ claim that they wanted it. It seemed to be merely a proposal intended to waste the other side’s time by refuting it. This, I’m told, […]
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How to Get to 10,000 Season Tickets, Now and Forever
The New Orleans Hornets are in the middle of a successful season ticket drive during what has the realistic potential to be the longest work stoppage in NBA history. The goal is to have sold 10,000 full season tickets by the season’s eventual start. This number is of the rule-of-thumb sort that unambiguously, in the minds […]