produced prior to the NBA. Clearly, that was good enough to land him a shot with this team, but Hornets fans would be well-advised to see how Roberts reacts to what teams throw at him when he's scouted properly, as Jason Smith eventually was after his great start in 2010. Smith has proven his worth. Will Roberts? I hope so, and I hope that it's fun finding out. Either way, until the team this team will become actually arrives, expect some 76?ers games. Money All of the sports stuff is well-and-good to talk about, but basketball is about so many other things, such as this dollar, that dollar, and the other dollar. This week, we can talk attendance and Arena advertising. Starting with the latter, the video boards on the chamfered edges of highway side of the New Orleans Arena are finally getting installed. The pre-work has been done over the past several weeks, but the boards were actually being installed in small chunks Saturday. These could be fully operational within a week (speculation). These boards are much larger than a typical video billboard in the area. Eyeballing the one that has some definition to its actual footprint, it's more than double, less than five times . . . let's call them three times the size . . . and they are positioned pretty well to catch a large number of views. As such, they should generate some nice cash for the team. Attendance is a stickier issue. While some