Tonight’s game between the New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets, two also-rans from the NBA’s once-potent Southwest Division, is all about endings.

It’s the end of the season for players on both teams, the opportunity for one last attempt at heading into the offseason on a positive note.
Yet for Jeff Bower, it could be the end of his term as the Hornets’ head coach, a job he assumed Nov. 12 when the franchise fired Byron Scott with the team off to a 3-6 start.
Saddled with injuries from the start — All-Star guard Chris Paul went down with a badly sprained left ankle in Bower’s first game as coach Nov. 13 — Bower and his staff struggled to turn things around for the Hornets. Their record is a respectable 33-39, although Paul missed 37 games with ankle, knee and finger injuries. Only one player, center Emeka Okafor, played the entire season injury free.

Click here to read the full article – By Jimmy Smith of The Times-Picayune

Hornets All-Star point guard Chris Paul is out indefinitely with a left knee injury.

Hornets coach Jeff Bower said on Monday that an MRI revealed more damage to the knee than the initial diagnosis of a bruise. The coach refused, however, to confirm reports that Paul had a meniscus tear and would miss at least a month.

Sources close to the situation confirmed to ESPN.com on Sunday that Paul tore cartilage in his left knee and will be forced to undergo arthroscopic surgery.

“We’re in fact-finding stages right now, gathering as much information as possible for decisions to be made to take the next steps,” Bower said. “It is likely there will be a surgical solution for it. We don’t have a timetable [for Paul's return] right now, nor do we know a surgical procedure right now.”

Paul first hurt his left knee in a game at Golden State on Wednesday. He struck the same spot against a camera when he went out of bounds near the end of regulation against the Chicago Bulls on Friday night.

He missed the Hornets’ game at Memphis on Saturday.

Click here to read the full article – By of ESPN.com