It might be the end of March, but going into Saturday night's game versus the Memphis Grizzlies, the New Orleans Hornets had yet to win a single game versus a division foe.  The Hornets got the victory, beating the Grizzlies 96-85.

``It's good to get that monkey off our back,'' said forward P.J. Brown. ``We finally got that done. We should have gotten it done a long time ago.''

J.R. Smith scored a career-high 33 points for the Hornets.

``Fortunately, we were on tonight, and ended up beating a pretty good team,'' Smith said.