Hornets Sold To NFL Saints Owner Tom Benson

The New Orleans Hornets new owner is Tom Benson. The tentative agreement reached for the NBA to sell the team 100% to Benson is worth over $338 million. Jimmy Smith of The-Times Picayune first reported this.

So the days of the NBA owning a team are drawing to a close. General Manager Dell Demps and Head Coach Monty Williams have done a wonderful job with the Hornets with everything given this season beginning with the Chris Paul trade, both of them.

The Hornets roster this season has seen upwards of 23 different starting lineup, 10-day contracts left and right, D-League call ups, anything to fill the roster when injuries hit hard. Omeka Okafor, Eric Gordon, Carl Landry, Chris Kaman, Jarrett Jack, Trevor Ariza and Jason Smith have all missed time this season with injuries. That is a pretty good group to be missing. The result has been close losses all season with a few big wins yet the Hornets have never quit and Monty Williams just keep the focus on playing with what he has.

Benson has been seen courtside at Hornets games this season. Now with him as the full owner committed to the city, arena upgrades coming, a lease that's pretty tough to break and a pretty good GM and Head Coach the Hornets are here to stay, but will they keep the name Hornets? Results of an online poll in the Times-Picayune show 90% feel Benson should change the Hornets name. Either way the Big Easy will have NBA basketball for quite a while.

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Cavs Mascot Moondog Laid Out

This could have been the look that David West had when he learned that his punch during a play fight with the Cleveland Cavaliers mascot Moondog landed Moondog out for the count and a trip to the hospital. Moon dog suffered an eye injury while doing what most NBA mascots do, mess with the other team players in a fun way.

You've seen Benny the Bull pretending to mop the floor during pregame warmups hoping that an opposing player slips. That's why we love mascots because they entertain us during the timeouts and mess with the other team players when the moment is right.

The moment was right for Moondog but the ending was unplanned. Now if West was play fighting how could a play punch knock out Moondog?




From The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Tom Reed, West said after the game...

“He jumped at me so I thought we were playing around and then the next thing I know he went down. It was definitely an accident.”

We hope Moondog will be ok, we hear he is but nonetheless this is funny as heck. Maybe mascots, we know Moondog will, think twice about a play fight with David West.

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Video: Magic and Bird Talk With David Letterman

Magic and Larry chat it up with David Letterman about their new Broadway act, careers and friendship. You've always heard Bird doesn't have that much personality but he is pretty funny and cracks his jokes throughout the sit down interview.

we would like to see them have a shootout just to see if that competitive fire is still there.


BirdMagic by 3030fm

And that shoe commercial they were talking about, classic you must say.

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Stephon Marbury set to get his own statue!

Yao Ming and Stephon Marbury. In China, that just about sums up the pecking order of national superstar athletes. Marbury, 35, was a decent NBA player who peaked way to soon. But in China, he is a legend. Marbury dominated the Chinese Basketball Association last season, leading his team, the Beijing Ducks, to their first ever CBA championship. His news off the court has been just as positive, as his Starbury shoes have been selling like Jordan's.

Stephon Marbury dominated the CBA this year, both on and off the court. Getty Images

According to Ball Don't Lie, Chinese basketball fans initially started a petition to create a Marbury statue in order to commemorate his outstanding play and active citizenship in China. Within hours, over 200,000 fans signed the petition, and within a week that number had climbed to over 1 million. Now, the statue is in the works.

I wonder what Knicks fans have to say about this surprising development. Chime in in the comment section below about Marbury getting his own statue.

From Black Sports Online

Zachey, Stephon Marbury, CBA

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Photo: Basketball Anytime, Anywhere, Any Weather

Nike ran the "Basketball Never Stops" ads during the lockout. Well this picture brings new meaning to that in so many ways.

Talk about ice water in your veins...that's a cold jumper!

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Video: Shaq's Dove Ad With His Mom

The old saying goes that boys are "momma's boys". The same can be said for one Shaquille O'Neal as he may be the biggest momma's boy throughout creation.

If you were under a rock the last few weeks and missed all of the NCAA College Basketball tournament then you missed the series of Shaq (cough) Dr. O'Neal Dove Men+Care "Journey To Comfort" ad campaign where Shaq says he's "Comfortbale in his own skin" but this one by far is our favorite. A big ole giant baby that still loves his mom and openly dicusses his name in "Shaquille".




We all know the name Shaquille and there is no question as to whether or not it's original (unlike the nickname "Superman") or not. There plenty of kids running around now with the name both male and female so the imprint on the name has been made.Were glad Shaq is comfortable with his skin and his name. Yet what does the name Shaquille really mean...?



...Handsome

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Derrick Rose's Girlfriend Is Expecting

Derrick Rose and his longtime girlfriend Meika Reese are expecting their first child.

From Bossip...

Chicago Bulls MVP guard Derrick Rose has a kid on the way. Rose’s longtime girlfriend Mieka is 7 1/2 months pregnant. We were scooped when Mieka’s younger sister broke the news on Twitter yesterday — She tweeted out how she enjoys “rubbing her sisters [pregnant] belly” Maybe Rose hasn’t been playing because he’s preparing for fatherhood? Congrats to the reigning NBA MVP.

Congrats to the couple. Derrick is rather quiet and reserved off of the floor so let's hope that he and Meika keep everything cool.

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Video: Fan Proposal In Milwaukee

What a great way to involve your tow favorite things, love and basketball. That movie title will forever ring true when couples have the common thread of love and basketball. Ok enough.

Anyway check out how one fan went ahead an popped to question...



Best thing about this is there wasn't an arena full of fans in the event she said "No". Way to play it real cool my dude.

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Video: Derrick Rose GQ Photoshoot

Derrick Rose has not seen as much action on the hardwood this season as he would have liked. He's missed almost 40-percent of the Bulls games due to various injuries. In his previous three season Rose only missed a total of six games so yo know that must be frustrating especially with the Bulls having the best record in the NBA to this point.

It has still been busy for the fourth year guard out of Chicago. There was the new contract with Adidas, the purchase of a condo in the Trump Tower and he's also expecting his first child with longtime girlfriend Meika Reese.

Well chalk up a GQ photoshoot to the list now. Check out the video of the shoot

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'Basketball Wives' Star Out On The Town After Heart Attack

Basketball Wives most popular Ex-wife Tami Roman suffered a mild heart attack last week and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA for treatment. Things are looking up for the 41 year old reality star…..she was seen out and about at Club Live in Atlanta just days after her heart attack.

Tami tweeted, “I’ve learned to manage the clock and not be governed by it-take time out of ur day to relax-everything will still be there.” “Headed to airport-ATL here I come-last stop, then headed back home for 1week off. Promised my babies I wouldn’t overdue it….”

On a recent episode of Basketball Wives, Tami finally addressed her anger management issues, a condition that can lead to stress and increase the chance of a heart attack. The reality star told the Huffington Post, “I have been known to pop a bitch or two, but I’m in total control of my anger management issues now.”

We are so happy for Tami’s speedy recover BUT girl don’t those wives stress you out like that again!!

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Kanye West says Kris Humphries is lucky he didn't have Jay drop him

TMZ

Kanye West is up to his attention grabbing antics once again.  On a new track released this week Kanye says  that he was in love with Kim Kardashian the same time Kris Humphries started dating her.  Claiming Humphries is lucky he didn't ask his friend (and minority owner of the New Jersey Nets) Jay-Z to cut him from the team.

Oh Kanye, such a gentleman.

And I'll admit fell in love with Kim
Around the same time she fell in love him
Well that's cool
Baby girl do your thing
Lucky I didn't have Jay drop him from the team.

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NBA FP TV Weekly: 4/5/12

A Brother and Sister combo became the first to do what? There is only one way to recover, the fans of OKC love their team and we talk about fatherhood. NBA-FP TV Weekly fills you in.

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Video: Artist Work Of Jeremy Lin

Don't you just hate seeing Jeremy Lin all up in the hospital. This was post surgery to repair and injured knee and is out for what could be the remainder of the season.

Just when the Knicks thought they had some Lin goes down. Well don't think they are not keeping the Lin spirit in Madison Square Garden.

Checkout what one artist,David Garibaldi did at halftime of a recent Knicks game....




Man gotta make you feel better after seeing the talent of this artist showing a little love to Jeremy Lin in like what 5 whole minutes or so....Awesome

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Video" OKC Thunder "Butt", Employee Fired Over It

Well we all know that the OKC crowd really rocks the Chesapeake Energy Arena for home Thunder Games to happen. It takes intense and all-in fans for that to be such a joy. Some of those fans took to the video circuit and for one person, a Thunder employee, the will merely be just a fan.



Ok when you find a reason for the employee to have lost his job over this please let us know. Were still looking...

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Knicks Chillin' on 21 Shump Street

On an off night in Indiana, the New York Knicks look like one big family. Here are some pics of them heading to dinner at New Orleans on the Avenue Restaurant in downtown Indianapolis.

Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudemire, and a large portion of the team, including head coach Mike Woodson were present. You love to see the unity, especially with the head coach hanging out with the players.

Knicks have 13 games left with a 2 game lead on the Milwaukee Bucks for the 8th seed in the Eastern Conference. They play the Indiana Pacers Tuesday night without Amare Stoudemire and Jeremy Lin. Unfortunately for NY they will not be available till the playoffs.

- Genovese

Source: Iman Shumpert's Instagram

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