Mr. Lottery Ball
Check out the New Orleans Hornets new publicity stunt “Mr. Lottery Ball.” The website is full of trivia and other contest fans can enter to win cool prizes.
Hornets Had Second Most Games Lost Due to Injury In NBA
The Hornets had a total of 11 players suffer injuries this season. Those players missed a combined 218 games this season. The only other team to have their players miss a combined number greater than…Read More
Monty Williams Places 12th In Coach Of The Year Voting
Hornets Head Coach Monty Williams finished 12th in the coach of the year award voting. Even though the Hornets finished with the 3rd worst record in the NBA at 21-45 he pulled in 1 second place vote that…Read More
Look For Gustavo Ayon To Make All-Rookie Team
With the 11-12 season over, it is about that team for the NBA to pick the All-Rookie teams. There is a first team, second team, and third team. I expect Hornets rookie center Gustavo Ayon to make either…Read More
Carl Landry Wants To Re-Sign
Hornets forward Carl Landry has expressed his interest in returning to New Orleans next season. Though he feels as if the feeling may not be mutual. The Hornets have 2 lottery picks and are expected to…Read More
11-12 Season In Review
The 2011-2012 season consisted of a lot of ups-and-downs for the New Orleans Hornets. But overall it…Read More
Recap: Hornets vs. Rockets 4/26
The Hornets were defeated in their season finale. They lost to the Rockets 77=84. The Hornets were winning…Read More
Gustavo Ayon Will Not Play In Finale
Gustavo Ayon will not play against the Rockets tonight and will miss the season finale. He was…Read More
Season Finale: Hornets(21-44) At Rockets(33-32)
Tonight will be the Hornets final game of the season. Even though it has been a relatively quick and…Read More
Emeka Okafor Update
Emeka Okafor, who has battled a bad knee all year, was officially deemed out for the season at the beginning…Read More
Game Recap: Hornets 83, Warriors 81
The Hornets were able to pull off the victory in the close game between the Warriors. The Hornets decided to sit Eric Gordon out for “rest” and apparently Jason Smith has not recovered from…Read More
Eric Gordon Shuts Down For Final Two Games
Eric Gordon did not play against the Warriors Tuesday night and will not play in the final game of the season on Thursday. This is not very surprising considering Gordon has missed all but 9 games this…Read More
Hornets(20-44) at Warriors(23-41) Preview
Tonight the Hornets will take on the Warriors in Golden State. Even though both of these teams are nowhere close to being mentioned in a playoff race, the future of both teams is still at stake. Currently…Read More
New Orleans Hornets writers needed
Swarm & Sting is currently looking for a lead editor/staff writers to cover the New Orleans Hornets. Editors are required to post once per day and staff writers once per week. Editors are also eligible…Read More
NBA Players Reject the Latest Offer
This is going to be a mess. I think that was my first thought when I saw that the players union rejected the owners’ most recent offer. I’m sure you’ve been following what’s going…Read More
I Don’t Like the NBA Lockout, But I Do Like A Healthy David West
There was some good news for Hornets fans making the rounds on Twitter today: David West received full clearance to return from his knee injury. Per Adrian Wojnarowski, Free agent David West, one…Read More
The Superdome’s New Sponsor and How the Hornets Could Benefit
Automaker Mercedes-Benz has become the new sponsor of the Louisiana Superdome. Pretty much every other deal like this has been especially lucrative and this will be no exception. In addition to being…Read More
NBA Lockout Stock Watch: Looking Bad
The owners and players met in New York City today, but no progress was made towards ending the NBA lockout. The NBA is expected to announce the postponement of training camps tomorrow. Before we all panic,…Read More
Players And Owners Meet, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Yet
The NBA owners and Players Association met yesterday for over five hours of talks, and both plan to meet again today. There are encouraging signs to take away from this: consecutive meetings (hadn’t…Read More
Thoughts on NBA TV Deals
I wanted to write a post about the Hornet’s current local TV deal–about how it has to be one of the worst in the league. Local revenue (tv, radio, etc.) is not shared so, for any team…Read More

















