- January 2009: Tracy McGrady is very nearly voted into a starting All Star Game slot over Chris Paul. Tyson Chandler gets hurt. David West gets hurt. Hilton Armstrong gets hurt (not usually a noteworthy thing in itself, but noteworthy in combination with the former two items, meaning the Hornets were almost entirely without big men).
- February 2009: Chris Paul gets hurt. Tyson Chandler and David West continue to be hurt. The Hornets trade Tyson Chandler. Then untrade Tyson Chandler.
- March 2009: Peja gets hurt. Tyson has, as aforementioned, still not been traded…. but is still hurt.
- April 2009: Hornets go 2-6 heading into the playoffs, causing them to fall to the seventh seed. But otherwise, nothing important happens this month, especially on the 27th.
- May 2009: Hornets fans are in a state of stunned shock as it is revealed that Devin Brown has a player option for 2009-10. Some other teams play some playoff games somewhere and stuff.
- June 2009: The Hornets draft DC and Marcus Buckets. Oh wait, these were good things. I guess this was a good month for the Hornets, then. Perhaps unironically, the month in which the least actual basketball was played.
- July 2009: The Hornets trade Tyson Chandler. Again. And sign some underrated guy who will never actually play for the team. Because–I know you won’t be able to guess this one– he gets hurt.
- August 2009: Hornets trade Rasual Butler for our new best friend, Cap Space.
- September 2009: Emeka Okafor gets hurt. If you were going to say, “Wait, the season hasn’t actually started yet!” … you would be right.
- October 2009: The Hornets rookies look great in preseason, and are, of course, promptly benched by Byron Scott.
- November 2009: Hornets lose a bunch of games. Byron Scott gets fired. Chris Paul gets hurt. (To add to the fun, those last two things happen within a day of each other! Good. Timez.) The national media writes 15,761 million posts and articles about how Chris Paul doesn’t smile, even though Chris Paul has never smiled on the floor. And then 365,298 posts about how the Hornets should trade him, preferably to _____ (insert beat writer’s local team).
- December 2009: Hornets have three consecutive chances to get to .500 against teams worse than them. They fail three consecutive times. Hornets, showing a real knack for capping off the Worst Year Ever in a way that pretty nicely sums things up, trade Devin Brown to the T-Wolves for cap space. And then it gets taken back. Oh, and just to bring things full circle, Tracy McGrady is very nearly voted into a starting All Star Game slot over Chris Paul. Again.
"No, no, no. Go past this. Pass this part. In fact, never play this again."
Did I miss anything? 
I think we are all in agreement when I say, “Here’s to 2010!”
Horrified
Good stuff ticktock6. LOL@ November and how every teams beat writer thinks CP3 should be traded to their team.
Dont forget “insane fans want to blow up the team immediately”. That might have been in October. Maybe earlier.
@ Stormsurge Hahaha, more like last February. It’s definitely been going on all year. Not one of my favorite things, as we all know.
2009 sucked all sorts of ass. Here’s to 2010, the year of the Hornet!
Not really, it is the year of the Tiger. Here’s to Lil’ Buckets; I hope he will score like 20 points a game from the bench.