Chris Paul has frequently expressed an affinity for game shows; his prior credits include a really quite impressive appearance on NPR's "wait wait don't tell me" a.k.a. "The Oddly Informative News Quiz" and an apparent effort to get on an NBC show I've now forgotten the name of but one that, we may rest assured, almost certainly enables contestants to win ONE MILLION! (maybe) dollars for one reason or another. 

Earlier this week, the Paul family's appearance on, heh, Family Feud aired on television. And while the last time I wrote a story is paralleled only by the last time I watched Family Feud (March 26th, 1997), some things - your favorite team's best player appearing on a game show, in this instance - just demand a revival from deep blogging slumber. And so.. to the analysis!

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We live in an age of manufactured amicability, counterfeit coalitions, bogus considerations, and, indeed, ersatz partialities. "My partialities ersatz?" you will no doubt counter. "Not so!" 

Oh, but they are, friendo. They are.

No area of the Universe is such phraseology more applicable to than Sports. Do you really believe that Chris Paul and LeBron James are Friends? Michael Jordan and Charles Oakley? Steve Nash and Massimo Ambrosini? Oh, you poor, poor fool! I've got some beach front property in Hawaii to sell you!

(It's marked up like 13%, ha ha)

There are those that will contend "you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." First of all, real f******* original. Second, check out this conversation I not only transcribed but also took pictures of before a game earlier this season

 Yo Deron
 What up Zydrunas Ilgauskas

As they* say, the proof is in the pudding. Modern Sports are downright Contemptible, from their hyper-propogandized communiqués to their amaranthine battue for our respective exchequers. It makes me sick. 

*pudding eaters

Such an introduction should prove sufficient edification then as to the refreshment granted me as I unearthed the tale of the Landrys twain.

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In a season that has been, quite frankly, better than I had hoped for, I wanted to stop and take a look at something we as fans tend to overlook: the big disappointments of the season. Sure, everyone talks about Chris Paul's passiveness in big game situations (though he's recently returned to the CP3 of old), but I’m not talking about small picture stuff like that. I’m talking more bigger picture stuff relating to the Hornets and their future. There have been several disappointments so far this year- the inability to sign West and CP3 to long term contracts, the sale of the team to the NBA, our inability to develop Q-Pon, Ariza continuing to take threes despite air-balling (33%) more than he makes (29%) (ok, I made the air-ball stat up, but it sure seems accurate), etc., but those are largely outside of the control of the Hornets management. In my mind, there are three big disappointments from this season, and it’s time we brought them out in the open for the Hornets' management because they could fix them instantly.

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Madman GM David Khan famously described Darko Milicic this past offseason as "manna from heaven." I'm pretty sure the above photo is in fact Darko's original reaction to hearing the phrase. Even he doesn't buy it.

Yeah, I know, it's a tired reference by now, but I just can't help it. I still chuckle every time I think about it. Plus, it always makes me wonder who the phrase could be accurately applied to. I'm curious about this in relation to the Hornets and their fans in particular. Throw realism to the wind, and consider for a moment which players would be franchise-changers if they suddenly fell from the sky and landed in New Orleans Arena, clothed in Hornets garb and ready to play. I'll tell you a couple of my picks first, and then I'd like to hear from you.

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Have you ever encountered an individual, or in this case a group of individuals, and find yourself unable to comprehend what's truly going on with that particular person or peoples?  One minute you're sitting back, enjoying a beverage of choice and talking about the good times when that person suddenly begins to cry.  Their crying then develops into anger, and you're wondering whether you should approach the person in humor, as you did moments earlier, or allow them to let their emotions out.  You sit back and realize that this individual doesn't have a full grasp on their emotions and you wonder what could be triggering that.  Scientists describe this frequent change in personalities to be a bi polar disorder.  However, I'm not referencing the person with the wide range of emotions in this post.  I'm finally figuring out what triggers that person's wide range of emotions.  That person who is laughing, crying and then angry isn't manic depressive.  It's me.  It's me watching my manic depressive New Orleans Hornets.

The most reliable source on the internet, Wikipedia, describes manic depression as a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes.  That, in a nutshell, describes the kind of season that the Hornets are having.  I haven't been this frustrated with a Hornets team since... 2009.  So I guess it hasn't been that long.  But I think I speak for everyone else at ATH when I say that I simply don't know what kind of team we have here.

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BowenBlast: A play on the name "Ryan Bowen" and the phrase "blast from the past." Because jokes are always funnier when you explain them.

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We here at At the Hive strive to bring you the latest news on Gary Chouest, but reporting on the potential sale of the Hornets is often contradictory and confusing. For instance, many news sources are currently considering the sale dead, since the New York Daily News ran a vague, unsourced story saying that the deal had fallen through. Still others reference the sale as a near certainty, citing the Times-Pic's publish of a rebuttal of the NYDN claim, suggesting the sale is near completion.

In an attempt to cut through the confusion, At the Hive is proud to introduce its latest technological breakthrough: The Gary Chouest Purchase Threat Level ®. It can be found at all times on the left sidebar, so you can check in with At the Hive and see, through a color-coded chart, our projection of the probability of Gary Chouest buying the Hornets.

Update: By "Threat," we most certainly mean "Threat To The Well-Being Of Other Teams In The Western Conference." Just didn't have the same ring to it.

Yes, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek. But it'll also be informative. Underneath the threat level, we'll list the most recent transfer status news, its date, and a snippet of what exactly that status is. The Threat Level opens today at... Guarded. Yep. Run and tell it!

Good morning sweet world. It's been months since I last wrote a post that wasn't an attempt to boil a player's entire season down to a single, arbitrary number, but here we are. 

Via The Sporting News, via Monty Williams' mouth: 

"You can say [the rumor mill] has settled down now, but it was settled before that. For me, it was never an issue. Chris never said anything about a trade. He never asked for a trade."

That's.. interesting. Assuming Monty Williams was in attendance at the infamous "Chris Paul meets with the Front Office! Ahhh!" tete-a-tete, it's all the more intriguing. It pretty much undermines all the reasons the media reported for the meeting's very existence. So, yeah.

This also means that At the Hive's tenuous/vaporous/twiggy insider sources are now batting 1 for 1. Mmm, twiggy.