CHARLOTTE (7-7)
AT DETROIT (9-5)
7:30 p.m., Charlotte Coliseum
Radio: WBT-AM (1110)
SCOUTING REPORT
The Pistons lead the NBA in field-goal accuracy at 47.6 percent. But the Hornets outrebounded them 45-18 Wednesday.
Pistons point guard Dana Barros was limited to three minutes Wednesday by a hamstring injury. Chucky Atkins filled in with a 25-point game off the bench.
Former Charlotte 49ers star Rodney White, the Pistons' lottery pick in June, hasn't played in five of Detroit's past six games.
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Baron Davis is the Charlotte Hornets' best player. Jamal Mashburn, who is injured, is very good at what he does and P.J. Brown is very good at what he does, but a point guard is more valuable than a small forward or power forward because his skills are more rare.
Look around the league. How many players do you see with the touch to hit from 22 feet and the strength to score from beneath the rim, the willingness to look for a teammate and the skill to find him, plus the ability to beat his man anytime he chooses?
Davis does all this, as you saw in his 38-point, four-assist performance Wednesday against the Detroit Pistons, a team the Hornets play again tonight at Charlotte Coliseum.
What Davis had not been able to do, at least not until last week, is make the team his. As loud as his game is, he's not the type to stand on a locker-room chair and announce he has taken over. He's only 22 and in only his third season, and because good veteran players have surrounded him since he arrived, he has always been free not to lead.
That freedom has been revoked. For the 7-7 Hornets to do anything, they have to be his.
Are they?
"Yeah, definitely," Davis says from the bleachers Thursday after practice. "I'm the point guard and it's up to me."
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Two weeks ago, Stacey Augmon was wasting away on the Charlotte Hornets' bench not sure when he'd ever work his way back into the rotation.
Two weeks ago, Augmon was looking like the team's biggest free-agent bust of the off-season.
But that's all changed in recent days, and Augmon suddenly finds himself playing a significant role and making a key contribution to the Hornets' newfound success.
It turns out that all he needed was time - time to fit in with his new teammates, and playing time to find his rhythm.
"There's not anything special going on," Augmon said as the Hornets prepared for tonight's game against the Detroit Pistons at the Charlotte Coliseum. "I'm just getting out there and getting a chance to play. It's hard when you're not playing much, but right now the opportunity is presenting itself and I'm trying to make the best of it."
Coach Paul Silas said he couldn't be happier with the way things have worked out.
Silas needed someone - everyone - to step up and come through after Jamal Mashburn went on the injured list last week, and Augmon has definitely answered the call.
"He's a vet, he knows how to play the game, and he's really coming through right now," Silas said. "I think it was just a matter of him getting out there and getting familiar with what we're doing and getting his confidence up a little, and when all that happened he started playing harder, too. It's one of those things where everything is just falling into place right now."
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Bobcats Nov 2001 Archive
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| Nov 30, 2001
Even with forward Jamal Mashburn out of the lineup the Charlotte Hornets are not taking any chances with their other injured forward George Lynch.
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| Nov 30, 2001
Hornets co-owner Ray Wooldridge has gone on the record as stating that Louisville is the front-runners to land the Hornets, although he did not specifically say if Charlotte was excluded in this basis.
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| Nov 30, 2001
Matt Bullard says if he were coach, he’d have benched himself for his slow start.
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| Nov 29, 2001
Dan "the Horse" Issel thinks Louisville can be successful as an NBA franchise for a relocated Charlotte Hornets team.
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| Nov 29, 2001
Today Hornets Co-owner continues his trek to find a new home for his franchise, flying back to Louisville to view what he admitted was a sketchy plan.
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| Nov 29, 2001
Yes, you read correctly.
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| Nov 28, 2001
CHARLOTTE
Jamal Mashburn still hasn't decided what to do about the strained abdominal muscle that has forced him onto the Charlotte Hornets' injured list.
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| Nov 28, 2001
CHARLOTTE (6-7)
AT DETROIT (9-4)
7:30 p.
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| Nov 28, 2001
The possibility of the Loisville Hornets is very much alive, with Mayor Dave Armstrong unveiling a preliminary arena plan that includes a relatively low contribution by the city.
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| Nov 28, 2001
One month or the season?
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| Nov 27, 2001
The Hornets hope to learn today how long they will be playing without injured star forward Jamal Mashburn.
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| Nov 27, 2001
Hornets coach Paul Silas wasn't necessarily expecting instant results, but he got them last weekend from Matt Bullard.
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| Nov 27, 2001
There's a great theory about how to win at meetings.
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| Nov 27, 2001
While the Hornets have been told of the possibility that leader Jamal Mashburn may miss 1-2 months with an abdominal strain, the Hornets Coach Paul Silas still is not sure to the extent of the injury.
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| Nov 26, 2001
John Delong of the Winston Salem-Journal reports: Coach Paul Silas said yesterday that the Hornets will not make any more roster moves until they find out the long-term status of forward Jamal Mashburn.
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| Nov 26, 2001
Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas has no problem with consistency from his bench these days.
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| Nov 26, 2001
When the season started, the Charlotte Hornets were hoping that Baron Davis would emerge as their best player and take-charge guy in close games.
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| Nov 26, 2001
Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer reports: Charlotte Hornets co-owner Ray Wooldridge is scheduled to meet with the NHL's St.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Although the Orlando Magic got 32 points from Mike Miller and 31 from Tracy McGrady against the Charlotte Hornets, those weren't the numbers that mattered most in the end Saturday night.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Elden Campbell apparently likes playing against the Orlando Magic.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Grant Hill, who played in only four games last season because of two surgeries to his left ankle, missed his first regular-season game Saturday because of a mild sprain of his left foot.
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| Nov 25, 2001
The Orlando Magic fizzled out like a cheap bottle rocket Saturday night.
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| Nov 25, 2001
Perhaps Loisville will soon be 0-2 in their hopes to land an NBA team, with George Shinn recently releasing a statement stating the strong possibility that the Hornets will remain in Charlotte.
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| Nov 25, 2001
One night after being beaten by the Orlando Magic, the Charlotte Hornets were able to even the score, winning 103-101 behind another big night by center Elden Campbell.
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| Nov 24, 2001
Mashburn will be missed
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| Nov 24, 2001
Richard Walker of the Gaston Gazette reports: Perhaps Louisville, Ky.
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| Nov 24, 2001
LEONARD LAYE of the Charlotte Observer reports: Jamal Mashburn's injury is more serious than the Charlotte Hornets first believed, and the starting forward will be lost to the for an extended period, perhaps as long as one or two months, team sources said Friday.
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| Nov 24, 2001
CHARLOTTE (5-7) AT ORLANDO (7-6)
7:30 p.
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| Nov 24, 2001
Under the NBA's new rules this season, the zone is a legal defense.
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| Nov 24, 2001
There may be a cure somewhere, some night, for Orlando's offense when it's sizzling.
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| Nov 24, 2001
Who: Orlando Magic vs.
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| Nov 24, 2001
INJURY WATCH
One game on the shelf, and Orlando Magic forward Horace Grant is none the worse for wear.
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| Nov 24, 2001
Back in the lineup
The Charlotte Hornets' big frontline will test Magic forward Horace Grant's troublesome back in back-to-back games.
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| Nov 24, 2001
The Charlotte Hornets have only a few hours to find a defense that might work tonight in a rematch against the Magic.
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| Nov 23, 2001
Flashback to just five NBA seasons ago.
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| Nov 23, 2001
LEONARD LAYE of the Charlotte Observer reports: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban called the Charlotte NBA situation "unfortunate" but said he was uncertain how the league's board of governors would vote if the Hornets apply for relocation after the current season.
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| Nov 23, 2001
ORLANDO (6-6) AT CHARLOTTE (5-6)
7:30 p.
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| Nov 23, 2001
This will be a night that tests the defense.
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| Nov 23, 2001
TONIGHT: Charlotte Hornets, 7:30 p.
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| Nov 22, 2001
CHARLOTTE, N.
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| Nov 22, 2001
Baron Davis peeled off the teal headband and flung it across the court, an all-too-visible symbol, as it turned out, of the frustration he was feeling.
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| Nov 22, 2001
Baron Davis is more of a leader this season, especially in the last two games when he has had to go to work without either Jamal Mashburn or David Wesley by his side.
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| Nov 21, 2001
It's still a three-ring circus at times.
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| Nov 21, 2001
"I've never experienced seven (consecutive) losses," Michael Jordan said.
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| Nov 21, 2001
DALLAS (6-5)
AT CHARLOTTE (5-5)
7 p.
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| Nov 21, 2001
Baron Davis woke up early Tuesday in a Washington hotel, jumpy, excessively hyper and ready to play basketball.
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| Nov 21, 2001
If Jordan's comeback is measured in wins, which it isn't, he would be failing miserably.
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| Nov 20, 2001
David Wesley's consecutive games streak came to a halt tonight against the Washington Wizards due to a foot injury, ending his run at 294 consecutive games.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Paul Silas isn’t unlike most NBA coaches this season who have praised Michael Jordan’s return to the game.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Eldridge Recasner's hard-luck stay with the Hornets came to an end yesterday when the team put him on waivers.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Given his druthers, Paul Silas would prefer that Michael Jordan had not come out of retirement this season.
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| Nov 20, 2001
The Hornets are off to see the Wizards, and frankly this meeting with Michael Jordan and the gang couldn't come at a worse time.
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| Nov 20, 2001
With four games packed into five nights, this is no time for the Hornets to lose a starter.
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| Nov 20, 2001
CHARLOTTE (4-5)
AT WASHINGTON (2-7)
8 p.
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| Nov 20, 2001
Given his druthers, Paul Silas would prefer that Michael Jordan had not come out of retirement this season.
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| Nov 19, 2001
The Hornets have waived guard Eldridge Recasner and activated forward Jerome Moiso off the Injured List.
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| Nov 19, 2001
Richard Walker of the Gaston Gazette reports: Charlotte Hornets general manager Jeff Bower hopes that the NBDL future will make it to where players get NBA callups.
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| Nov 19, 2001
When the Charlotte Hornets signed Matt Bullard as a free agent in August, it seemed to be a solid acquisition - one of the front office's best moves of the off-season.
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| Nov 19, 2001
John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal reports: There is some sentiment around the NBA that team owners would not approve a move of the franchise should ownership strike a deal with another city.
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| Nov 19, 2001
Duke junior Mike Dunleavy hasn't seen transfer Dahntay Jones play in a regular-season game yet, but swears he has seen Jones before.
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| Nov 18, 2001
The Portland Trail Blazers opened a 16-point lead midway through the fourth quarter on three straight jump shots by Rasheed Wallace.
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| Nov 18, 2001
The Charlotte Hornets have now called more emergency team meetings than the Carolina Panthers have victories.
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| Nov 18, 2001
Hornets coach Paul Silas believes that the team's 4-5 record in light of their loss last night does not reflect the abilities of his club, and therefore he called for a starting five meeting after the game against Portland.
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| Nov 17, 2001
SCOUTING REPORT
The Hornets get a taste of their own medicine - after catching their past two opponents on the second night of a back-to-back set, they go for a second straight day themselves.
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| Nov 17, 2001
-- Intellectually, the Hornets knew the formula worked.
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| Nov 17, 2001
The Charlotte Hornets didn't subject the Heat to another 26-point pasting.
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| Nov 17, 2001
Paul Silas issued a challenge.
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| Nov 17, 2001
The Hornets were able to defeat the depleated Heat at the American Airlines Arena in Miami last night, but that wasn't the big news of the night.
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| Nov 16, 2001
He hasn't even played one game in a Hornets uniform yet, and already the injured George Lynch is looking to cash in.
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| Nov 16, 2001
Your team is struggling, losing four out of the last five games, so who would be your perfect opponent? Who would have thought Miami? Well, what about if we told you that they would be without Alonzo Mourning and Brian Grant, two of their three key contributors? Or what if we said only Eddie Jones, Anthony Carter and Eddie House would be on the active roster from the team you annihilated last season in the playoffs? All ring true for the guys in purple and teal.
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| Nov 15, 2001
It was a different Derrick Coleman that the Charlotte Hornets ran into Wednesday night at First Union Center.
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| Nov 15, 2001
It didn't take Tim James long to find a new home after being waived by the Hornets last month.
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| Nov 15, 2001
Too much fizzle.
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| Nov 15, 2001
This is home.
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| Nov 15, 2001
A few months ago Derrick Coleman, then with the Hornets, was considered untradeable.
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| Nov 15, 2001
How important is one player to a team? .
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| Nov 14, 2001
For a guy used to throwing his considerable weight around on a basketball court, Robert "Tractor" Traylor had become downright timid.
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| Nov 14, 2001
John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal reports: How badly did the Charlotte Hornets want to get rid of Derrick Coleman when they traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers last month?
NBA sources said yesterday that the Hornets were so desperate to make the trade that they paid the Golden State Warriors a hefty sum - in the range of $500,000 - to keep the Warriors from backing out of the three-team deal.
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| Nov 14, 2001
Ask Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas to assess Tim Duncan’s game and Silas says simply: "There’s nothing he can’t do.
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| Nov 14, 2001
You knew, watching Rodney White last season, that he didn't care much about defense.
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| Nov 14, 2001
For a guy used to throwing his considerable weight around on a basketball court, Robert "Tractor" Traylor had become downright timid.
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| Nov 14, 2001
A nationally known sports consultant has worked for Charlotte business leaders since June, searching for a way to privately pay for an uptown arena.
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| Nov 14, 2001
Stephen A.
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| Nov 13, 2001
Elden Campbell has been around the league for a long time.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Remember those old McDonalds Championship games, where the champion from each major league would face off - the NBA champion being the jewel in the crown? The NBA did this to try to expand its fanbase and and reap the benefits of cashing in on a previously untapped market.
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| Nov 12, 2001
At 3-3 after beating Chicago Saturday night, the Charlotte Hornets are like a lot of NBA teams these days.
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| Nov 12, 2001
Perhaps the NBA's two most troubled franchises, the lame duck Charlotte Hornets, whose owners are trying to flee Charlotte and relocate to Louisville; and the Bulls, a team struggling to rebuild and hoping to ease an angry verbal feud between coach Tim Floyd and team captain Charles Oakley, clashed Saturday night in the United Center.
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| Nov 11, 2001
How much impact Eddie Robinson will have on the Bulls this season remains to be seen, but he does have a certain sense of timing.
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| Nov 10, 2001
The Charlotte Hornets are moving to Louisville, Ky.
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| Nov 10, 2001
College basketball is Billy Packer's area of expertise, not professional basketball.
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| Nov 10, 2001
Don't be surprised to see George Lynch on the Hornets' bench on a regular basis now.
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| Nov 10, 2001
CHARLOTTE
Tractor Traylor has learned to rent, not own, in his brief NBA career.
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| Nov 10, 2001
For a team of veterans that came within one game of the Eastern Conference finals last season, the Charlotte Hornets still have plenty to learn.
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| Nov 10, 2001
CHARLOTTE
The Charlotte Hornets should be a very good team this season, with all five starters returning from a team that went to the Eastern Conference semifinals last season.
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| Nov 10, 2001
There's no time like the present for the Hornets, who need a jump-start after tripping from the gate with a 2-3 record.
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| Nov 10, 2001
CHARLOTTE (2-3)
AT CHICAGO (1-4)
8:30 p.
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| Nov 10, 2001
Has there been a more depressing time in Charlotte pro sports history?
The Charlotte Hornets sound very serious about moving to Louisville, the land of horses and bourbon.
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| Nov 9, 2001
Hornets have seen Parker before: Charlotte was one of the first teams to work out Tony Parker before the NBA Draft.
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| Nov 9, 2001
1.
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| Nov 9, 2001
Tony Parker may have scored 22 points.
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| Nov 9, 2001
The early word on Tony Parker was that the rookie couldn't shoot.
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| Nov 9, 2001
Coach Paul Silas said he saw the old spark in his Charlotte Hornets’ Thursday night.
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| Nov 8, 2001
The (AP) reports: Charlotte Hornets co-owner Ray Wooldridge said Thursday that Louisville is the leading candidate to land the NBA franchise.
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| Nov 8, 2001
Spurs scouting report: The Spurs bench had a large hand in Tuesday's win.
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| Nov 8, 2001
Expected to be one of the top teams in the East this season and currently sitting at 2-2, Hornets players felt something was wrong.
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| Nov 8, 2001
Ask Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas to assess Tim Duncan’s game and Silas says simply: "There’s nothing he can’t do.
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| Nov 7, 2001
Mavericks coach Don Nelson shook his head in amazement and said he was "shocked" by Dirk Nowitzki's performance Tuesday night against the Charlotte Hornets.
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| Nov 7, 2001
Dirk Nowitzki, listed as doubtful due to a sprained left ankle, had 34 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Dallas Mavericks to a 110-92 victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday night.
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| Nov 6, 2001
When/Where: 7:30 p.
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| Nov 6, 2001
College basketball is Billy Packer's area of expertise, not professional basketball.
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| Nov 6, 2001
One of the Hornets' priorities this offseason, besides trying to remain in Charlotte, was to get backcourt help for guards Baron Davis and David Wesley.
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| Nov 5, 2001
Ninety minutes before sending his Hornets out for their third game of the NBA season Saturday night, coach Paul Silas sat in a baseline seat in the Meadowlands' Continental Airlines Arena and tried to have a little quiet time with his wife, Carolyn.
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| Nov 5, 2001
When Charlotte traded away Derrick Coleman to the Sixers last month, it was essentially for George Lynch and throw ins.
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| Nov 4, 2001
They're back.
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| Nov 4, 2001
Derrick Coleman has been one of the NBA's biggest enigmas.
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| Nov 3, 2001
The Hornets honored six heroic firefighters from companies in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn last night as they participated in the color guard pregame ceremony before their 97-93 victory over the Knicks at Charlotte Coliseum.
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| Nov 3, 2001
Baron Davis did it again for the Charlotte Hornets Friday night.
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| Nov 2, 2001
The Hornets have two words to say, over and over again, to Baron Davis.
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| Nov 2, 2001
Newest Charlotte Hornets player George Lynch is trying his best to be optimistic about a second foot surgery in five months.
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| Nov 1, 2001
For three quarters, the Cleveland Cavaliers were on the verge of winning their first game.
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| Nov 1, 2001
It was April 27 and Charlotte was having a flashback.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Former Hornets assistant coach Jerry Eaves says Louisville, Ky.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Jamal Mashburn can still feel a twinge in his left leg every now and then after missing much of the Charlotte Hornets' preseason with a strained hamstring.
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| Nov 1, 2001
9,002 fans showed up at the Charlotte Coliseum for the Hornets opening game yesterday.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Many considered last season to be a breakout year for dynamic Hornet guard Baron Davis, and already Davis is out to blow last season away.
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| Nov 1, 2001
Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
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