tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19445907037748538522012-02-01T10:20:59.324-08:00My ramblings about the NBA and my favorite team, the New Orleans Hornets. And some other stuff, sometimes.Ryan Schwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667988626149084591noreply@blogger.comBlogger631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1944590703774853852.post-3160227330639394872007-12-14T09:21:00.000-08:002007-12-14T09:25:18.085-08:00

Hello All - you may have noticed that it's been almost a week since I posted here, and a few of you may have wondered what happened to me. Well, the answer can be found here.Ron Hitley over at Hornets247.com has done a lot to help me get going as a blogger, and we've decided that we work so well together that I'm going to close down The New Orleans Hornets Fan and join him over at Hornets247.

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Here are two takes on that Crapfest of a game.Ron Hitley's over at Hornets247. It was also his first game in New Orleans, and everyone should send him a housewarming present. I understand he likes beer. Lots and lots of beer.My own take at MVN. Warning! I hear I'm bitter. But I do say a few things that are interesting. At least, I think they are interesting.A nice graphic over at the 3 Shades of

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Three quick items, and then on to the game preview:I have a new post at MVN about the Hornets December ScheduleCP3 has a new Website - and it's looking pretty sharp. It even mentions something called CP3TV. Yes please.Dave Berri over at the Wages of Wins again promotes CP3 - pointing out he's infinitely cooler than Deron Williams. I never tire of hearing that, though Jazz fans apparently do

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I don't have a ton to say today. Enough has been said about that 21-game losing streak the Hornets snapped on Saturday anyways. I'm a little tired of it.What do I want to say?We got two more wins and now sit at 4th in the Western Conference, and what's best is Chandler is looking like his knee has finally recovered. Before the Atlanta-Dallas games, he didn't really go up and get those

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Game Preview Time!Opponent: Atlanta Hawks(6-8)Relevant Opposing Blogger: Impending Firestorm, Hawks BasketblogThe Hornets roll into Atlanta tonight for the first of a pair of back to back games. The Hawks take the court winners of 3 of their last 4 games, while the Hornets arrive losers of 3 of their last four games. Yeah, that's great.The Hawks are a young team, with an average age of 25.1, and

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Yeah - that's one of those games you watch with a puzzled look on your face, and when it's over you ask your buddy "what the hell just happened?"Peja Stojakovic scored 17 on 50% shooting, West had 10 points and 14 rebounds, and Chris Paul went for 31 points and 11 assists. Normally, you'd think that would win us the game. But no, this one was never even close. I'd like to blame it on the

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'Lo all! We got ourselves another game tonight, so I will rip myself away from that freaking awesome new Mass Effect game and get my Hornets fix. It's the life, I tell you. Basketball season rolling, Thanksgiving and Christmas looming, and it's also the time of year when a lot of excellent games are released to compete for your entertainment dollars.That game against Orlando was not pleasant -

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Game Preview:Opponent: Orlando Magic(9-2)Relevant Opposing Blogger: Believing in MagicThe Orlando Magic flicker into existence tonight in New Orleans to take on the Hornets, winners of 5 in a row. Orlando is also a proud posessor of a 9-2 record, much like the Hornets, but has only won 4 in a row, so is already clearly behind the Hornets. Both teams are seeking to establish themselves as

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Today I get to trade game previews with the 3 Shades of Blue, home to an industrious trio of bloggers that cover the Memphis Grizzlies. These guys kindly took the time to answer some of my noob questions way back at the dawn of time(september 2007!) when I had just started my blog, and are pretty damn fine people all around, despite being fans of well, you know, the Grizzlies.So, a few weeks ago

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I had some thoughts brewing about the Hornets bench and was going to put up a post about the second unit as a whole, but after last nights game I want to think on it a little longer. So instead, I'm going to throw some links at you.Dave Berri at the Wages of Wins Journal responded to my October challenge about some of the great shooters in the NBA and whether they were overhyped. I think the

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While I was away over the weekend, the Hornets were involved in two blowouts, inflicting one and having the other inflicted on them. On Friday, the Spurs did their thing, executing their offense to perfection. I don't really feel bad about the game though, Tony Parker and Tim Duncan were hitting everything, and shooting a high percentage on shots they normally don't make with consistency. Duncan

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Clearly when Peja Stojakovic saw that picture after the Lakers game(because I know he reads my blog. Doesn't everyone?) it flustered him and left him reeling. Because in Portland, he didn't do so much. 2-13 for five points. Not good.I don't really blame him, he's said from day one that he's still trying to get his legs back and a back to back will test even the most fit players in the NBA.

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..........What?Anyways, last night I literally laughed out loud during the third quarter of the Lakers game. I've cheered, groaned, shouted, sighed, and chuckled before while watching a game, but never have I actually laughed and giggled to myself for almost an entire minute. How the hell did the Lakers not cover Peja? 10 of 13 from downtown for the game, 5 of 7 in the third quarter. It was

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There's been a lot of sickness in my house for the past few days, so I haven't been able to post as much as I'd like. So - if you're looking for a game preview for tonight's game, you can wander on over to Hornets247 and catch Ron Hitley's - along with a sweet picture of a duck.Oh - and I did post something new over at MVN about David West. Take a gander, if you like.My take on tonights game?

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Another win in convincing style. Because I'm a sadist, I went to Blazers Edge and read their gameday open thread - where their fans can post as the game occurs. It can be fun to watch a fan base be stunned by your team as it comes out and pummels them. Paul's devastation of Jack was particularly unpleasant for them. And no, I didn't post on the thread to gloat. I'm a sadist, not a jerk.For a

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Got a lot of good information to point y'all to, and got my take on tonights game against Portland. So let's get right down to it:After watching Tyson in that pre-season opener, I felt I needed to write about him. Go take a look at it over at MVN.com. It's clearly the most important thing you'll ever read.Dave Berri of the Wages of Wins evaluates the Rookies that played in the pre-season after

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'Lo all, the NBA is back, the Hornets won, and I'm exuding inner peace and joy. I'm also happy to announce that my words will now be carried even further over the net, as I've been invited to join MVN.com as their Hornets blogger. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop blogging here, it just means that I'll be posting in both places - and cross linking so that I can steal all of MVN's traffic.

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A few weeks ago I noticed that Michael Thompson, the Director of Corporate Communications for the Hornets, had become active on the Hornets Report Fan boards and was passing along invaluable information about the Hornets and their efforts to reintegrate into New Orleans. So I figured I'd send that web-savvy guy an email and see if I couldn't get an interview with him or someone else in the

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Before I get to the Preview for tomorrow night's game, I wanted to touch on a couple other items first:The Wages of Wins Journal published it's Eastern and Western Conference predictions for the upcoming season. Dave Berri didn't go as far as I did and predict exact minutes for each player on every team he evaluated, but obviously did enough prediction to decide where each team should end up. The

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And the last of the Blogger-generated Season Previews is the Pacific. I think it's pretty clear Phoenix will win this one, but I still insist they are not going to be the juggernaut they've been over the past few years. Anyways:Golden St. WarriorsGolden State of MindLos Angeles ClippersClipsNation.comLos Angeles LakersForum Blue & GoldWith MalicePhoenix SunsBright Side of the SunSacramento

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It appears that earlier reports that the Hornets acquired David Wesley just to release him were greatly exaggerated. It's obvious now that I never did see the official transaction releasing Wesley - so I should have been aware he was still an asset the team could use.Well, the Hornets just traded him to the New Jersey Nets for Bernard Robinson, a 6-6 swingmen who tore his lateral meniscus during

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I'm more than ready now for the Hornets season to start. This picture over at Hornets247 says all it that needs to be said about the month-long preseason.Wednesday night I'll be taking my kids out trick or treating and coming back home in time to glue my butt to the couch and watch me some Hornets vs. Kings. My wife doesn't know yet, but I'm not helping put the kids to bed. Since they'll have

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A few posts ago, I mentioned that ESPN had posted its rankings for various players and that due to spread of the Hornets players through the rankings, building a team with all the Hornets starters seemed eminently possible. So a couple days ago I went to Yahoo's free Fantasy Basketball teams, tried it, and it worked! Yahoo hands out teams with 3 guards, 3 forwards, 2 centers, 2 utility players,

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The march of the CelticsBlog continues on, reviewing the Southeast Division. Personally, I think this division is the hardest to predict. I can't trust the Hawks or Bobcats yet, and I think Miami is essentially done(they traded for two very mediocre players). But if any of those three suddenly become playoff contenders, it wouldn't surprise me either. At the top, it's a toss up between Orlando

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I've been pretty clear in the past what I expect from the Hornets this season: 48 wins, and a 7th seed or higher. I may be a homer - okay, I am a homer - but it doesn't seem that surprising to me to expect a team that lost 159 games from its top 6 players last year to improve on their 39 wins.Every Season Preview I've happily gulped down this off-season says the same things, and I'm starting to

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I had a plan to post last night, but my house literally caught on fire when a piece of clothing was left(tossed and left) on top of a lamp in my six year old son's room. Everything is fine now - except our wall-to-wall carpet, a couple pieces of clothing, an Elmo sleeping bag, and the teddy bear I'm convinced threw the clothes on the lamp in the first place. He's a polar bear, and you know how

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Well - pretty much everything I was going to mention today has already been covered by the psychic Mr. Ron Hitley of Stealing-All-Ryan's-Thoughts.com. (Except for the french guy thing. That's all his. He can keep it.)I've seen a some alarm on the Hornets Fan Sites about how terrible Morris Peterson has been shooting this pre-season. I won't try to allay their worries by saying it's just

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Northwest Previews? Yeah, we got 'em. Or at least links to em.Take a look at what these bloggers think of their teams:Northwest Previews:Utah JazzDaily BasketballTaking it to the RackBasketball JohnSeattle SupersonicsSonics CentralPortland Trail BlazersTrueHoopThe Inferno TimberwolvesTWolves BlogDenver NuggetsNugg DoctorBlog Previews ArchivesCelticsBlog NBA Section

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The Hornets played another pre-season game last night. I didn't get to watch this one, but the box score waved all kinds of red flags at me: Mo Pete still can't shoot, they only had 96 posessions, so hadn't pushed the pace, Peja didn't play, etc.The adage is "The Preseason Doesn't Matter", but I can tell you, if you're writing a blog and pouring over Pre-season games so you can talk about them -

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As a spin off of yesterday’s post about how the Hornets have drafted, I figured I’d introduce some other information I drew from that evaluation: The relative worth of each pick.When is this useful? It’s not uncommon that players will be traded away in return for future draft considerations. But how would you put a value on a draft pick when you don’t even know what players will be available in

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I've been meaning to do this post for a while, and I've finally crunched the numbers enough that I think I can do it justice. I've seen a lot of complaints about the Hornets drafting bad second rounders over the last few years - but the second round of the draft is a real crapshoot, so I set out to discover if the Hornets were really as bad as advertised at selecting talent in the Draft. While I

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There is some rampant trade speculation going on over on the Hornet's Report Boards about trying to trade for Kobe Bryant. I'm not sure I really want Bryant on the team, and I believe the trade would never happen for a variety of reasons, but I'll give it my best to come up with a pair of plausible trade scenario that didn't require a third team to complete.Things to consider:Kobe has a no-trade

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More Previews - this time Eastern Conference Powerhouse Central Division. Of course, the Southwest Division would eat them for dinner.Anyways - enjoy!Chicago BullsCobra BrigadeBull Riding Cleveland CavaliersYAYSports!The POJO DojoCavalier AttitudeTruth in a Bullet Fedora Detroit PistonsPistonsNationBlogEmpty The BenchNeed4SheedMotoring Indiana PacersIndy CornrowsPacers Pulse Milwaukee

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Coaches always claim their team is going to run during the season - it's a rare bird that will say they are going to take the air out of the ball and play station to station basketball. Well, Byron said they were going to run - but last night they must have forgotten. Some observations:The Hornets had 86 possessions, Indiana 100, mostly due to the boards. Hard to win when the opponent gets

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This is nice. Thanks Mr. Hitley. Join and add to it if you got anything you think us Hornets people might like.That LJ highlight video is fantastic.

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So - another preseason game is under way, and as of this moment, our team's shooters(West, Stojakovic and Peterson) have managed to combine for 4-21 shooting, 2-8 from three point range. As I sputtered in disgust, I began to think about the great shooters of the past.But - I wonder what our current stat tools would say about those players. NBA stars are made, almost exclusively, through scoring

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I've just got my hands on a whole bunch of stats - and am working on an involved post about the Hornets past drafts as compared to the rest of the league, but it's not quite done yet. So today, you just get some bullets.This is too funny not to share - no matter what you may think of me for doing so.The Hornets waived Anthony Richardson and Eric Chenowith, leaving them 15 players on their roster.

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To go along with the Season Preview I submitted on Tuesday, other bloggers have been creating and submitting Previews for the rest of the Southwest Conference, all of whom the Hornets play at least 4 times this year. Go - take a look.San Antonio SpursSpur of the MomentPounding the RockNew OrleansHornets 24/7The New Orleans Hornets FanMemphis Shades of

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Tonight the Hornets played Indiana in their second preseason game, losing 101 to 96. Again, other than Hilton Armstrong and Ryan Bowen(?), they shot poorly. Some observations:Julian Wright again proved he can rebound at a high level, sucking in 10 during his 26 minutes. He also managed to toss out 4 assists, one steal, two blocks and 8 points on 3 of 7 shooting.(2-4 FT) So it appears

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The Hornets played their first pre-season game last night in Oklahoma City against the Houston Rockets. Now, you should never put much stock in pre-season games, but you can glean some important facts from them. So, here's what I saw:A post up by Desmond Mason would have been an improvement over the shooting on display by the starters last night. They fired up bricks, combining for 10 of 35 from

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New Orleans HornetsLast Year's Record: 39-43Key Losses: Desmond Mason, Devin Brown, Marc Jackson, Cedric SimmonsKey Additions: Morris Peterson, Julian Wright, Melvin Ely1. What significant moves were made during the offseason?When the Hornets get a hankerin' for a player, it appears it never goes away. They signed Morris Peterson to an offer sheet three years ago and tried a couple times to trade

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In the near future, I will be providing a Team Preview for the Hornets to be posted at the excellent CelticsBlog.com. This week the previews for the Atlantic Conference were completed by bloggers for each of those teams, and here they are. Have Fun!Celtics Celtics Blog LOY's Place Celtics 17 Red's Army Celtics 24/7 Green BandwagonNetsHooplah NationNetsDailyKnicks Straight Bangin'

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I've complained before about the Hornets and the lack of attention they get from the national media. Most season previews this summer about the Hornets have focused briefly on their injury woes last year and then bumped their record a few games and called it a day. It's a similar lack of attention that allowed the Utah Jazz to be such a "surprise" last year - and it's possible the Hornets may

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So, here are four more items that aren't getting too much coverage. Most of these teams just don't get much coverage in general, or have another story that's overshadowing other things. Let's get started with probably the most depressing team around.Los Angeles Clippers - The big story about this team is Elton Brand's injury. But in the end, I think the injury may be even more harmful to this

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Training camp is in full swing, and while that should mean I've got Hornets stuff to fill pages, I realize that Ron Hitley over at 24/7 has got most of it covered, and I think everyone should have to be exposed to his particular brand of insanity. So, although I aspire to be Ron with all my soul, I'm going to talk about something else entirely.With a lot of the big site's previews coming out(or

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As I was reading the Wages of Wins Journal's most recent entries this morning, it occured to me that I had never bothered to actually crunch the numbers for the Hornets upcoming season. Considering I'm supposed to do a Hornets season preview for CelticsBlog.com in just a week, and was going to stick my neck out by claiming the Hornets would win 48 games, that seemed like a grave oversight on my

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The Hornets announced today the last additions to their official training camp roster, which opens tomorrow. With the additions of Ryan Bowen, Trey Johnson, and Anthony Richardson to Marcus Vinicius and Adam Haluska, we now have five players attempting to fill four spots at the end of the bench.Right now, I'm giving the edge to Haluska, Johnson and Richardson - because they would all be rookies.

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Well, today the Hornets traded away last years #15 pick Cedric Simmons for . . . David Wesley's non-guaranteed contract. Essentially, it's trading a young developing(maybe) big man for some really minor cap relief(1.6 million). I can't think of any reason they would do this unless they were clearing room to sign someone else in training camp, clearing room for a trade, or Simmons had been caught

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After spending the past few days wasting hours of my life playing Halo 3 - I figured it was about time I married my two current hobbies together into a Halo-Hornets Extravaganza. So, in this post I will be cleverly equating things in the Halo Universe to things in the Hornets Teamiverse.(see? Clever, right? No? Bah.) I'll stick to those things I pretend to know something about though - so you

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Since I've completed my lengthy reviews of the Hornets Swing men and Big men, I'm going to move on to the position that is the pride and joy of the Hornets Faithful: Point Guard. There are three players on the roster who will get minutes at the position; Chris Paul, Bobby Jackson and Jannero Pargo. While Jackson and Pargo will split the twelve-odd minutes available as Paul's backup, they are both

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There's actually a theme for this list of links: Respect. Let's kick it off in style with a link to one of my favorite bloggers:Ron Hitley of Hornets24/7 channels Rodney Dangerfield and points out that the Hornets 'can't get no respect.' Hopefully the whiskey flow he'll drown his sorrows with won't keep him from posting again soon. Three Shades of Blue submits a list of the worst NBA owners for

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During the Hornets last playoff appearance in BCP 2(2003-2004 season) the Hornets front court boasted an All-star Center in Jamaal Magloire, former All-Defensive 2nd Team Forward PJ Brown, an energized, if large, Robert "Tractor" Traylor and the rarely scoring and little used rookie, David West.Today, Magloire is earning small, one-year contracts because he's become sour, slow and unreliable, PJ

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Well, we're only a week from Training Camp opening and the inevitable veteran hamstring pulls! Here's a few links.Team and offseason evaluations are coming out now, and ESPN's Marc Stein produced his over the weekend. His Eastern Conference preview was pretty unsurprising. Anyone think that Boston didn't have a great offseason, bringing in Garnett and Ray Allen?While Marc Stein's Eastern

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I was going to continue my evaluation of the Hornets Roster by going over their available Bigs today, but instead I've been diverted into responding to something in Dave Berri's blog on the Wages of Wins(and one of the comments by Matthew) about David West. There is an implication that David West used a new focus on inefficient scoring last year to earn a larger Payday in the coming season than

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He's at least interesting enough to get an entire page of analysis from Dave Berri of Wages of Wins. And I got a nice mention in the story too.

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Since Mashburn had his career ending injury in 2 BCP (before Chris Paul, otherwise known as the 2004-2005 season) and David Wesley was traded in the dark year of 1 BCP, the Hornets have had a revolving door at shooting guard and small forward. Such luminaries as Lee Nailon, Bostjan Nochbar, George Lynch, Matt Freije, JR Smith, Rodney Rogers, Jim Jackson(the non-reporting twit), Casey Jacobsen,

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Time for some Linkage to various Hornets related items:SI.com has listed Tyson Chandler in their Top 10 players on the verge of becoming a star. You won't get any argument from me.The fellas over on the Hornets Report Boards are torn over whether they'd rather have Peja or trade him for Kirilenko, who wants out. I don't think that trade could happen - but man, can you imagine Kirilenko and Tyson

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While I was creating yesterday's post about the Hornets and how they are not interesting(i.e. unfairly ignored! Really!) it occurred to me that David West is to the Hornets what the Hornets are to the rest of the NBA. On Hornets Fan sites, they talk about Chris Paul and Tyson Chandler as the two stars on the team. West is ignored or listed as possible trade bait, and you'll find nothing about him

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On his exceptional Web Journal, Wages of Wins, Dave Berri evaluates which teams are the most interesting. He left the Hornets off the list(there's a joke there, but I'll leave it alone), since his sample was teams over the last twenty years and the Hornets have only been in existance the last 19. So I went ahead and used his method to determine just how 'interesting' the Hornets have been during

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Chris Paul was a part of a comedic NPR game called Wait Wait don't tell me. Here's the link - he's fairly funny.(Thanks TrueHoop)

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Last year, on December 22nd, the Hornets were reeling from injuries. Peja was done for the season. West and Bobby Jackson were done for weeks. So the Hornets brought in Devin Brown - who had been sitting on his couch in San Antonio without a job up until then. In his debut he took four three pointers; and missed every single one of them. In his next game, he took seven shots and managed to hit

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In a strangely inaccessable piece on the Times-Picayune website, John Reid appears to be attempting to say that Byron Scott has gotten his new whipping boy: Rasual Butler.Every year Byron identifies one person he is going to be watching closely - and usually that player doesn't pan out. They are always fairly marginal players, so I don't have an issue with it - but I'd prefer if he'd leave Butler

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Hello - for my first trick - and post - I will now produce my 2007-2008 NBA Western Conference Preview:1. San Antonio Spurs - They didn't change their roster - and they didn't need to. Tough, efficient, and swift to pounce on any errors. They'll be right there again.2. Houston Rockets - Last year, the Rockets had one big weakness: Every position not manned by Yao, McGrady or Battier. And they've

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