DENVER - Expectations finally gave way to disappointment here Wednesday night for the New Orleans Hornets. Seven months ago, the Hornets were riding the emotional wave of preseason prognostications that had then winning the Western Conference - one 484 2009-01-29T02:30:28-05:00 New Orleans Hornets eliminated in five games by Denver Nuggets, 107-86 25121 --- [] 2009-04-30T04:26:00-04:00 1646 New Orleans Times-Picayune http://blog.nola.com/hornets_impact/atom.xml 3 7 2009-11-22T04:28:12-05:00 http://blog.nola.com/hornetsbeat/2009/04/new_orleans_hornets_eliminated.html