"New Orleans Hornets are not going to extend guard Jerel McNeal's 10-day contract that he signed on March 9, team officials said Friday. McNeal has not played in five games since joining the Hornets. McNeal, 6-foot-3 point guard, is expected to return to Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Development League. The Hornets signed McNeal because starting point guard Chris Paul was sidelined with a concussion and they needed depth at the position until he returned. Paul, meanwhile, wore a brace on his surgically repaired left knee at practice Friday for the first time since mid-February. "I don't think its any different than me wearing this whistle today,'' Hornets Coach Monty Williams said about Paul wearing a brace" Read more: http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2011/03/new_orleans_hornets_not_going.html
