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"On this day 18yrs ago the hornets told me right after they drafted me that they had no use for me and were going to trade me #thanku #lakers"

7/1/2014 11:45:47 PM

Kobe's trolling is about as legendary as his basketball skills

7/2/2014 12:36:18 AM

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"You seem to say PJ was a homer pick by MJ, a UNC guy. Yet many of your arguments for Napier are as a UConn homer"

Lulzzzzz

7/2/2014 12:37:48 AM

lol at Kobe. Hes really got the Charlotte Sports talk radio guys up in arms.

I can understand their hate though. Not only was it 18 years ago...but it went down nothing like he said it did. To say that the Hornets didn't believe in you when YOU were the one that said you wouldn't play in Charlotte is laughable.

7/2/2014 8:01:02 AM

Sorry Kobe, you were just another George Shinn trade the Hornets lost.


Which puts in the company of the likes of Kendall Gill.

7/2/2014 8:16:51 AM

just remember, basketball god john calipari drafted kerry kittles instead of kobe bryant.

kerry kittles.

7/2/2014 9:08:20 AM

Kobe thinks he would be even happier if he worked for Charlotte instead of LA.

7/2/2014 10:01:34 AM

shoot has fallen victim to Kobe's trolling

7/2/2014 10:03:53 AM

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"On this day **yrs ago the hornets told me right after they drafted me that they had no use for me and were going to trade me #thanku #heat""

7/2/2014 10:06:56 AM

shoot I believe you were in China and not Charlotte when Kobe was drafted and traded for Divac, so I assume you don't know what really happened

7/2/2014 10:42:43 AM

OK, tell me what happened?

7/2/2014 10:48:04 AM

Kobe had already said that he wouldn't play for Charlotte. He basically said he wanted to play in a big market like Los Angeles. The Hornets and Lakers made a deal before the draft that we would draft Kobe and trade him to LA for Divac, an All-Star center. Kobe is the one who had no use for Charlotte, not the other way around.

7/2/2014 10:49:59 AM

Not only that, but Kobe wouldn't work out for most teams because he only wanted to end up in a big market. Kobe never worked out for Charlotte. The whole this is a farce and if you didn't know the real Kobe already, you should now. Champion basketball player. Loser person.

7/2/2014 10:54:14 AM

Charlotte is a mid-size market right? The 2nd financial center in US.

And I know kobe grows up in Italy. His family is not as poor as Jordan and Lebron.

[Edited on July 2, 2014 at 10:59 AM. Reason : ;]

7/2/2014 10:57:13 AM

Hey Kobe, Todd Fuller was drafted before you.

7/2/2014 10:59:35 AM

Kobe was only 18 at that time man. He has already been recognized as a future star at that time. I remember I saw his first ad for Adidas and I was shocked.

7/2/2014 11:03:47 AM

Not only me but also Hornets are victims for Kobe's trolling. He feels that he's got forgotten for a long time.

[Edited on July 2, 2014 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ;]

7/2/2014 12:58:25 PM

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"He has already been recognized as a future star at that time"

yes, he was a future star. but at the time, he couldn't shoot.

the hornets traded the rights to an athletic high school kid who couldn't shoot for a center who helped lead them to the two best years in franchise history.

honestly, kobe was just a bonus for the lakers, as they were trying to get rid of Vlade's contract so they could sign Shaq. TRUE FACTS.

7/2/2014 3:43:47 PM

LOL No, he's not a bonus. It's fully PLANNED!
Jerry West put Kobe and Shaq together in summer 1996 and they start to become a rising force.

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"At the time he became the youngest player ever to play in an NBA game (18 years, 72 days; a record since broken by Jermaine O'Neal and Andrew Bynum), and also became the youngest NBA starter ever (18 years, 158 days)"

[Edited on July 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM. Reason : ;]

7/2/2014 3:58:40 PM

Josh Davis is on the Hornets summer league team.

7/2/2014 4:49:05 PM

clearly I'm rooting for the Hornets summer league team

down low, they have the #1 shot blocker in PAC-12 history

7/3/2014 2:42:16 PM

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"@rick_bonnell: Utah Jazz F Gordon Hayward will visit the Charlotte Hornets next week, the Observer has learned. Story to follow."

http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_the_nba/2014/07/utah-jazz-forward-gordon-hayward-to-visit-charlotte-hornets-early-next-week.html

[Edited on July 4, 2014 at 12:29 PM. Reason : ]

7/4/2014 12:27:49 PM

i don't get excited about restricted free agents.

7/4/2014 2:32:11 PM

Hayward would be a huge signing if we could get him

7/4/2014 2:52:27 PM

maybe al jefferson can seal the deal, although if Utah is gonna match a high offer, I'd hate for them to use up all their free space on just him

[Edited on July 4, 2014 at 5:00 PM. Reason : ]

7/4/2014 4:59:17 PM

people don't want LANCE but they want to recreate the shit utah jazz

what a world

7/5/2014 10:21:01 AM

you'd rather recreate the Pacers? and I'd like to have Lance, but your argument is dumb

7/5/2014 11:03:15 AM

who else on the hornets also played on the pacers?

7/5/2014 2:29:15 PM

When the Bobcats traded for Diaw and Raja Bell, we were trying to recreate the Suns!

7/5/2014 2:59:13 PM

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"who else on the hornets also played on the pacers?"

hmm answer the question, TT10

7/5/2014 3:14:49 PM

Big Al and Ridnour both played for Minnesota

Would you rather be the Timberwolves or the Jazz?

At least both of those teams play in a real conference, not the shit ass Pacers

But I'd love to get Lance

7/5/2014 3:28:29 PM

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"When the Bobcats traded for Diaw and Raja Bell, we were trying to recreate the Suns!"

and it might have worked if we also acquired nash and amare...

7/5/2014 3:49:26 PM

if the hornets picked up lance, i could see them getting like a 3 or 4 seed in next season's playoffs

7/5/2014 5:39:10 PM

Can we get both Hayward and Lance or only one of them?

7/6/2014 9:31:45 AM

We have about $15 million in cap space, and that's about what Haywood wants. So we couldn't realistically get both.

That being said, Haywood is a restricted FA, and all indications point to Utah matching any offer. So it's highly unlikely Haywood ends up a Hornet.

7/6/2014 10:38:43 PM

7/7/2014 1:07:09 AM

PJ's off to a great start

Sucker punching high school kids at a YMCA is the epitome of class.

7/7/2014 9:17:23 AM

Lol. According to wral Josh Gordon was driving PJs car when arrested. Then later bailed out by Fats. Lessons have been learned obviously.

7/7/2014 10:24:57 AM

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""I'm a lifelong UNC fan and I played against P.J. in high school," Phillips added. "I've always rooted for him -- even with all the stuff that happened last year. But after this, I don't think I could look him in the face." Phillips said there was a previous incident with another player on the court. "It's not like it was just one guy," Phillips said. "P.J. was looking for problems.""

#BUZZCITY

7/7/2014 10:31:02 AM

who is phillips

7/7/2014 10:55:55 AM

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11184420/pj-hairston-charlotte-hornets-involved-altercation-pickup-game

Vince Phillips

7/7/2014 10:59:10 AM

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""Kentrell's team had beaten P.J. a few times and they were winning again," said Vince Phillips, a friend of Barkley's who played at Southern Durham High and just finished his freshman year at Coastal Carolina University on an academic scholarship. "P.J. was talking to him, then he got the ball, looked up the court and dribbled to Kentrell full-speed, threw his fist and then went and scored. Then he hit him again.""

stay classy

7/7/2014 11:02:08 AM

wait a minute....so he punched him....and then went and scored? lmao

thats what you call finishing through contact!

7/7/2014 11:15:11 AM

7/7/2014 11:30:43 AM

Now it has come out that Josh Gordon was driving PJ's car when he got his DUI as well as Fats Thomas bailing Gordon out of jail.

This was the fucking worst pick ever. Way to go Hornets...

[Edited on July 7, 2014 at 11:34 AM. Reason : unbelievable]

7/7/2014 11:34:00 AM

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"This was the fucking worst pick ever. Way to go Hornets..."

LOL. Now we don't even need to wait till the new season starts before it proofs that it's a bad pick.

[Edited on July 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM. Reason : ;]

7/7/2014 1:40:55 PM

It was the 24th pick in the draft ... not like we were throwing away a lottery pick.

PJ has top-10 talent and has stayed out of trouble in the D-league. I don't like the guy, but he was worth rolling the dice on that late in the draft, especially considering the Hornets' needs.

That said, screw PJ. I don't think anyone would mind cutting his ass at this point.

7/7/2014 2:02:41 PM

What I don't understand is why are former NC State players up in arms about PJ getting in trouble!?! I mean, they keep saying people need to fall back and how they can't believe the kid is pressing charges.


Am I missing something here??

7/7/2014 2:08:39 PM

^ Off the court, the State players are usually friendly with the UNC guys.

It's the fans that have the passionate hatred.

7/7/2014 2:18:31 PM

by former NC State players do you mean Julius Hodge?

and probably because they have a better understanding of what goes on behind-the-scenes than any of us?

while it's great that this is a pretty hilarious black eye for UNC, it's absurd to believe he's the only one/they are the only program that could go through this

7/7/2014 2:20:15 PM