New Orleans Hornets

One of the reasons Peterson's signing created optimism in New Orleans was that the Hornets had been trying to find a long-term solution at shooting guard in recent years. In the previous two seasons, they had rotated through several players at the spot, including J.R. Smith, Kirk Snyder, Ra...

TSN.ca  LA - SOME HITHER, OTHERS YON: Chris Paul's agent, Lance Young, and his family had dinner with Hornets GM Jeff Bower on Wednesday night and a contract extension ... Sports World Myrtle Beach Sun News all 865 news articles

As everyone around the NBA realizes, the New Orleans Hornets are entering the 2008 free-agency period with one primary objective: to sign All-Star and Most Valuable Player runner-up Chris Paul to a contract extension. Obviously, the team will be required to make a significant investme...

Chris Paul will be a Hornet for at least four more years. The Agent for the Hornets all star guard said he will be in New Orleans tomorrow to finalize Paul's new "max" deal with the team. Paul could have opted for a 3 year deal , but agent Lance Young said Paul will sign a 4 or 5 year deal.

Paul, Hornets agree to new deal - New York Times

Chris Paul, Hornets finally reach deal - GMA News.tv

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 TX - But did anyone come away from the Hornets-Mavericks series thinking the better team lost? No. New Orleans was clearly the superior team. ...

MSNBC Hornets' Chandler invited to USA camp The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - By Jeff Duncan Tyson Chandler is only an alternate on the US men's Olympic basketball team but he still could join Hornets teammate Chris Paul at the ... US cagers need to redeem themselves Inquirer.net

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) There has been mention of the Celtics considering Chris "The Birdman" Anderson to fill the center spot left by PJ Brown if he retires. I really like this move if the Celtics can get him. He is an unrestricted free agent and newly returned to the NBA from a suspension for drugs that kept him out for 2 years. He played in 5 games for the New Orleans Hornets after his reinstatement last season and averaged 1.2 points, 1.8 rebounds, and .8 blocks in 6.8 minutes per game. Anderson's swooping dunks, shot-blocking skills and rare athleticism for his size earned him the nickname "The Birdman". Before his suspension, Anderson spent 3 years in Denver and 2 years with the Hornets. He averaged 4.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks in 15.9 minutes per game. While the num...   [read the full post]

Irritated with the source that broke the news, and more irritated with the Times-Picayune continued coverage of the news.  The T-P reporters continue to act like the deal is already done and just waiting on a soon-to-be completed call to the League Office, basically spouting what was sta...

NOLA.com Hopefully The Hornets Know Something We Don't NOLA.com, LA - Jun 26, 2008 With news breaking that the Hornets have agreed to send their first round pick in the 2008 NBA Draft to Portland in exchange for cash, fans have only one ...

NBA: Hornets deal 27th pick to Blazers - Honolulu Advertiser

Person familiar with deal: Hornets trading pick - New York Times

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 DE - New Orleans, Nikola Pekovic, F, Serbia: The Hornets would most likely keep him overseas for a year or two. 28. Memphis, JJ Hickson, F, NC State: A good ... One man's opinion on how NBA draft will go Savannah Morning News all 5 news articles

Many NBA analysts did not believe Wright would still be on the board when New Orleans selected at the No. 13 pick of the 2007 draft, so the Hornets' front office was thrilled to land the Kansas product.

The Hornets have agreed to send their first-round draft pick, the 27th overall, to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for cash that could help New Orleans add a key free agent to a rising young squad. The Hornets' rebuilding years are behind them, however, and head coach Byron Scott has...

NBA: Hornets deal 27th pick to Blazers - Honolulu Advertiser

Person familiar with deal: Hornets trading pick - New York Times

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If we had not sold the draft pick, we would have had 8 million to spend. The amount of money the Hornets got for the pick is undisclosed. Whether it goes into the pocket of Shinn or not depends on whether the Hornets make money this year or not.

This is different though.  The Hornets are right there.  I truly believe they are just two consistent bench players away from being a contender for the title.  The 27th pick of the draft, no matter your take it's value, is still an asset, and the Hornets gave it away for cash.  Is cash for the Ho...

By By WILLIAM C. RHODEN Byron Scott supervised the New Orleans Hornets' practice here Sunday morning, a few hours after watching his young team come from behind to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, 104-92, and take a 1-0 lead in their best-of-seven, first-round playoff series.

Jason Kidd made his Dallas Mavericks debut against the host New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night, so invigorated by the prospect of playing for a contender again that he dismissed concerns of travel fatigue or his immediate insertion into the starting lineup of a team he has practiced...

New Orleans Hornets guard Rasual Butler has been charged with flashing a loaded gun near a South Florida nightclub. A witness told investigators that Butler pulled out a gun near a South Beach club early Monday, according to a Miami Beach police report. Butler was sitting in an SUV when offi...

By Marcel Mutoni Carmelo Anthony (F - Denver Nuggets) Carlos Boozer (F - Utah Jazz) Chris Bosh (F - Toronto Raptors) Kobe Bryant (G - Los Angeles Lakers) Dwight Howard (F/C - Orlando Magic) Jason Kidd (G - Dallas Mavericks) Chris Paul (G - New Orleans Hornets) Michael Redd (G - Milwaukee Bucks)

USA Basketball Announces 12-Member 2008 Men’s Senior National Team - Lakers.com

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The 2008 Playoffs: Where the Revival of the NBA's Two Flagship Franchises Happened - 20 Second Timeout

 LA - Bo McCalebb walked past the baseline of the New Orleans Hornets’ home floor and stopped in front of a gaggle of media members poised to question him about ... UNO's McCalebb impresses Hornets' Scott The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com all 2 news articles

An interesting note from that line of questioning is Bennett and his ownership group sought to purchase the New Orleans Hornets before the purchased the Sonics. However, Hornets owner George Shinn would not agree to give Bennett's group a future option to buy a majority share in the team,...

Here is part 2 of our look around the Internet, to see what other websites are projecting New Orleans to do with the No. 27 pick of the first round (the Hornets do not have a second-round pick this season). Three of seven sites are now predicting that French center Alexis Ajinca will be New Orlea...

Thanks to some fantastic people over at Hornets HQ, we were able to organize an interview and photo shoot with Shannon the Honeybee last Wednesday. It all went down at the New Orleans Riverwalk. Enjoy… No. No. Do you have a favorite restaurant in New Orleans?

Hornets.com's Nick O'Hayre chatted Wednesday with Hornets draft workout participants Mark Tyndale, Lester Hudson, Patrick Ewing Jr. and Keith Brumbaugh. For more from potential first-round pick Wayne Ellington of North Carolina, as well as Xavier (Ohio) forward Josh Duncan, visit Ho...

Two names with connections to the New Orleans area and the Hornets organization were among the six players on hand at opening day of the team's NBA draft workouts: Jeremy Pargo, younger brother of Hornets guard Jannero Pargo; and Vanderbilt all-time leading scorer Shan Foster, a native...

Now that I’ve talked about what the Hornets need,  who I’d like to see them go for if they keep the 27th pick of the draft, and what sort of Free Agents I would like to see the Hornets go after, I’ve finally reached the last part of my off-season preview – making trades.

I had to check myself here.  My last memory of Hayes was him smoking the Hornets for six threes in Detroit, so I had to go back and make sure that wasn't a freak game.  It was a freak game, but he's still a solid enough scorer off the bench that he wouldn't be a bad backup for the Hornets at the wing.

I mention Bill because some boards have him coming to us in the draft.  I'm not sold on him at all.  Sure the guy was coming off an injury, but that's his third knee injury.  Regardless, his primary game is as a slasher, and while that can be useful, his ranged shot is not accurate at all.  The Hornet...

The next thing the Hornets need is for Chris Paul to sign on the dotted line for his extension.  We can offer him more than any other team can, and he seems to be committed to the Hornets and New Orleans, so I feel fairly confident he will sign. 

It was clear to me at that point that the 07-08 season would be a test of legitimacy. Are the Hornets a legitimate team? Is Byron Scott a legitimate head coach? Is Chris Paul a legitimate superstar in the making? Is New Orleans a legitimate NBA city?

How is this useful?  The Hornets will own the 27th pick of the draft this year.  With this information we can determine if its worth keeping, what we should expect to get in return for it should we trade it, and what should we expect to get if we use it.

By noreply@blogger.com (David Friedman) The bizarre theme of extreme mutual home court dominance continued in game six of the San Antonio-New Orleans series as the Spurs beat the Hornets 99-80 to force a game seven in New Orleans on Monday. A 3-3 series suggests that the teams are evenly matched and yet none of the games have been close; the home team has won every game this series by at least 11 points and five of the six games have been decided by 18 points or more. Tim Duncan scored 20 points and led the Spurs in rebounds (15), assists (six) and blocked shots (two). Manu Ginobili scored a game-high 25 points on 9-15 field goal shooting, Tony Parker added 15 points and four assists and Ime Udoka provided 13 points off of the bench, nailing all five of his field goal attempts. Chris Paul led Ne...   [read the full post]

John Hollinger writes about the Hornets huge third quarters at home during the series...In the first, second and fourth quarters in the three games in New Orleans, the score is relatively even, with New Orleans holding just a 12-point advantage

David West and the New Orleans Hornets sure looked happy to be at home. West had career playoff highs of 38 points, 14 rebounds and five blocked shots, lifting New Orleans to a 101-79 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night and a 3-2 series lead.

Here's the truth about this series:  The Hornets have scored whenever they wanted to against the Spurs vaunted defense.  Even after the Spurs made some adjustments against the Hornets last game, the bugs still scored at a fast clip.  It's part of the reason I still feel pretty comfortable w...

Hornets-Spurs: More Blowouts than a Hair Salon - Hornets247.com

I'm not one of those people who talk about the refs or league office conspiracies.  Still I think the calls we'll see this game will be significantly different from those we saw in New Orleans in Game 2.  We got some very favorable calls and non-calls last game.  The combination of the crowd roa...

Among the Hornets-Spurs thoughts from Chris Mannix over at SI.com...If you want to beat New Orleans, you have to be able to shoot the ball. The Hornets double-team everybody. They send two players at Tony Parker when he drives and they don't hesitate to send an extra defender when the ball comes i...

By Aggrey Game ends, 102-84. Aggrey thinks this thing might only go 5. Seems too easy, but there’s really nothing the Hornets aren’t getting. The Spurs look a lot like the Mavs right now—a little old, pretty thin bench, not enough energy. We’ll see Post-game

The Hornets shot 50 percent from the floor (43-of-86) and out-rebounded the Spurs 50-34... when shooting 50 percent or better, the Hornets are 10-0 in the playoffs and when the Hornets outshoot and win the battle of the boards against their opponents, the Hornets own a 13-0 mark.

The one thing about him is he normally doesn't have two or three bad games in a row," Hornets coach Byron Scott said. Paul and Byron Scott said they did not believe the foul warranted a suspension. The Hornets weren't thrilled with the free-throw disparity in Game 3: Mavs 38, Hornets 13.

Instead of coming out in the third quarter and wilting as they did in the first two games, the Mavs came out with renewed aggression and, as a result, drew a lot of fouls. While the Hornets became more timid because of foul trouble, the Mavs kept pushing. New Orleans tried to make a small run towa...

By Aggrey Pargo catches an inbounds and hits 30 points on the night. Still, the lead is 87-74. Behind us, the dancefloor is populated. People dig the Hornets and all, but Curtis Mayfield is playing and it’s Friday night. Maybe that’s a 13 point deficit, but New Orleans is New Orleans.

DALLAS -- Riding the enthusiasm of their own crowd is part of the Dallas Mavericks' game plan when Game 3 of the best-of-seven series against the New Orleans Hornets tips off Friday at American Airlines Center. I do feel like we can win there," Hornets center Tyson Chandler said.

But the Hornets did care, at least about New Orleans. The Hornets, as an organization, are building 20 new homes in the city. Plus, the team is providing financial assistance to rebuild the homes of 39 local teachers, with the aim of helping the educational system to also rebuild.

The edge: Hornets. Chris Paul is that good. The edge: Hornets. Scott's experience could be the difference. The biggest intangible could be the Hornets' home-court advantage. The Mavericks went 17-24 on the road, while New Orleans proved to be formidable at home (30-11) and away (26-15).

By Leitch Over the next few days, Basket Bawful and Free Darko will be previewing each NBA Playoff series. Basket Bawful looks at the Eastern Conference today, finishing with the series between the New Orleans Hornets and the Dallas Mavericks, which begins Saturday.

Big difference in the game: 5 turnovers for New Orleans, 18 turnovers for Minnesota. Quite a few of them by the T-Wolves were unforced too, like their numerous back-court violations. Spotted behind the Hornets bench was none other than Chad Shinn. You are so busted, Chad. You told me our road t...

By David Friedman The Hornets are considered one of the most surprising teams of this season but maybe we should not be quite so surprised; last season, Chris Paul missed 18 games and David West missed 30 games. West's extended absence proved to be particularly damaging; the Hornets were 28-24 when he played (.538) and 11-19 (.367) when he did not play. Also, Peja Stojakovic played just 13 games for the Hornets in 2006-07 but this season he is healthy again and he has reemerged as one of the league's best three point shooters. Paul and West each earned their first All-Star selections this season and it is only natural that more on court time together has translated into improved play not only from an individual standpoint but also in terms of the team's overall per...   [read the full post]

By Aggrey Last night’s Suns-Hornets game was supposed to be a repeat of their last matchup (with the newly-traded Shaq watching from the sidelines) a thriller Peja won on a buzzer-beater trey in OT right before the All-Star break. –The Hornets start to blow it up open and go up a dub, 97-77 after three.

By Sam Rubenstein The Hornets are using the Denver D like a speed bag, pounding and pounding, right in rhythm, unrelenting, and the Nuggets can only bounce back, try to score a little, and take more hits. JR Smith is back, hits 2 consecutive 3’s, then throws up 3rd with his legs in the Jordan pose, and the shot sm...

What the Hornets did in San Antonio last night was nothing short of pure dominance. Our guys rolled into town with a swagger and may have finally convinced the basketball world that New Orleans is for real. How can we be ignored after handing the defending champs their biggest loss of the seas...