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Grizzlies Continue Remarkable Commitment To Tanking With 61-Point Loss
The Grizzlies’ magnificent losing streak may have come to a stop last week after 19 games, but never fear, the team is still in tip-top losing shape. Tonight against the Hornets, they pulled off the worst loss in franchise history: 140-79, the NBA’s first 60-point loss in two decades....
Holy Shit, Dwight Howard Played Like It Was 2008 Tonight
Dwight Howard—the same 32-year-old that has spent the last several seasons brewing beef as he scoots from team to team, that Dwight Howard—made a little history tonight. With a 32-point, 30-rebound game in the Hornets’ win over the Nets, he put together the first 30-point, 30-rebound performance th...
Dwight Howard Seemingly Forgets That You're Allowed To Jump In Basketball
Dwight Howard, who is listed at 6-foot-11 with a seven-foot wingspan, decided to use absolutely none of his god-given physical gifts as he tried to score on his old team tonight. Maybe he thought it would be unfair to the shorter Evan Fournier; maybe, in a burst of whimsy, he wanted to pretend to be...
Dwight Howard Does The Big Balls Dance After Two Meaningless Free Throws
Dwight Howard, who’s averaging 52.8 percent on free throws this year, made two meaningless ones towards the end of Charlotte’s 133-109 blowout of the Wizards tonight. Afterwards, like Sam Cassell and so many others before him, he wanted us to know how big his balls were....
Hornets Coach Steve Clifford To Return To Team After Spending Month Away For Health
Charlotte Hornets head coach Steve Clifford will return to the team next week after spending more than a month away with a health issue....
Hey, Remember The Hornets? Well, They Stink Now
A home loss to the Lakers on the second leg of a home back-to-back isn’t exactly the end of the world—the Lakers are bad, but they compete like hell, and they’ve got some high-upside young dudes, and shit happens on the back end of a back-to-back. But the first leg of this home back-to-back was a lo...
Dwight Howard Fined $35,000 For Being Dwight Howard
Of all the dipshit ways for Dwight Howard to earn himself a $35,000 fine from the NBA, this is almost certainly the Dwight Howard-est:...
Sounds Like The Hawks Despised Dwight Howard
Zach Lowe had Kevin Arnovitz on his podcast Tuesday to discuss the five most puzzling teams in the NBA, one of which was the Charlotte Hornets. The Eastern Conference is a lukewarm soup of bad teams, mediocre teams, and the Cavs and Celtics, which means the Hornets could plausibly finish fourth or 1...
Reports: Hawks Send Dwight Howard To Hornets For Marco Belinelli, Miles Plumlee
Draft Week trade mania—it’s happening!...
Marco Belinelli's Incredible Off-The-Butt Buzzer-Beater Waved Off By Refs
Marco Belinelli very nearly scored the coolest buzzer-beater of this NBA season (and probably many others), but alas, it came too late. I get that the referees have to uphold “standards” and “fairness” and “the rules,” but this shot deserved better....
Kemba Walker Is Why You Shouldn't Give Up On Young Players
To really appreciate how far Kemba Walker has come, dust off that copy of NBA 2K12, slide it into your wheezing Xbox 360, and find young Kemba on the roster of the 7-59 Charlotte Bobcats, where he is stuck behind D.J. friggin’ Augustin on the depth chart, slinging passes to the likes of Byron Mullen...
Sixers And Hornets Give Up, Decide To Just Sort Of Flail Everywhere<em></em>
We’ve brought you a lot of dumb basketball lately, but good lord, this here sequence from the Sixers and Hornets is the worst offense yet. ...
Nicolas Batum Totally Blows Easy Buzzer-Beater
Before we get too far into this blog, a caveat: It’s the preseason, so this failed buzzer-beater means exactly dick. That said, it was very funny....
White Sox Fan Frank Kaminsky Owns The Cubs
Frank Kaminsky is a White Sox fan and he apparently isn’t one to celebrate his city’s other team’s success. To express his displeasure, he’s decided to wear a custom Steve Bartman jersey around the city. He rocked it on a rooftop last night, then wore it to the Bulls’ arena before the Hornets’ game ...
Michael Jordan Donates $2 Million To Social Justice Organizations
In a note published on The Undefeated today, Michael Jordan spoke out against recent acts of violence against African-Americans and police officers, and revealed that he has made sizable donations to two organizations that work to combat police brutality and racial inequality....
Hornets Minority Owner Has Wild, Bigoted Shit To Say About The NBA Moving The All-Star Game
When the NBA announced it was moving the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, North Carolina, because of anti-LGBT legislation the state passed in March, the Hornets reacted quite reasonably. “We understand the NBA’s decision and the challenges around holding the All-Star Game in Charlotte this season...
The NBA Has Moved The All-Star Game From North Carolina Because Of Anti-LGBT Law (UPDATE)
Update (5:33 p.m.): The NBA has officially relocated the 2017 NBA All-Star Game away from Charlotte, North Carolina, in response to an anti-LGBT bill the state passed in March. Here is the league’s statement:...
Nearly Perfect: The Night The Bulls Were Tired
On April 8, 1996, the Chicago Bulls trudged into the United Center on an unseasonably cold Monday night to face the Charlotte Hornets. They hadn’t lost at home in 44 games. The Hornets, meanwhile, entered the game as the East’s eighth seed, with a record that was just one game over .500....
The Streaky-Ass Miami Heat Just Barely Won A Series They Dominated
The Heat are likely going to be favored over whoever squeezes out the Indiana-Toronto series that wraps tonight the time you’re finishing your Game of Thrones-Silicon Valley doubleheader. Even if it’s Toronto (which hasn’t won a playoff series since 2001) and we get the No. 2 v. No. 3 seed matchup, ...