Why is it so hard to love the Charlotte Bobcats Hornets? General incompetence has a lot to do with it. Like, well, this, as described by the UPoR’s Scott Fowler:

This is how messed up the Charlotte Hornets are.

Injuries have knocked out two of their starters and forced a third (Al Jefferson) to basically play on one leg. They are a few days from falling out of the playoff race entirely. They had a huge game looming Monday night against Boston.

And Lance Stephenson – the player the Hornets gave a three-year, $27.4 million contract to this past offseason to be a difference-maker – was healthy but did not play for one second.

Yeah.