NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans general manager Dell Demps said the Hornets plan to sign forward Lance Thomas to a 10-day contract today.

The move comes as forward Carl Landry recovers from a left knee injury that occurred in Saturday night's loss at Detroit.

Landry posted on his Twitter account Sunday that he has a sprained MCL. The club has yet to announce how long Landry is expected to be out.

Thomas, 6-foot-8, a second-year pro out of Duke, was in training camp with New Orleans and saw brief playing time in two of the first three regular-season games before being waived Dec. 31.

Thomas spent his first pro season in the NBA Development League. Associated Press

Around the league

Boston: Coach Doc Rivers said forward Brandon Bass didn't play Sunday against Memphis because of "swelling of the knee." Rivers didn't make it sound like it was serious. "I think it's an accumulation of a lot of games," he said.

Denver: Guard Rudy Fernandez was booed each time he touched the ball Saturday night in the loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. He played for Portland in 2008-11 but fell out of favor with fans when he asked to be released from his contract before last season.

Detroit: Trying to win back-to-back games for the second time this season, and minus Ben Gordon (shoulder), Will Bynum (left foot) and Charlie Villanueva, the Pistons continued to suffer from the injury bug when rookie point guard Brandon Knight went down in the first quarter after receiving a blow to the face and suffered a broken nose in the team's 89-87 victory over New Orleans (4-20) Saturday night at the Palace.

"He has a broken nose. They'll have to reset it, get him fit for a mask and hopefully by Tuesday we'll have him back at practice," said coach Lawrence Frank.

"To give him unbelievable credit, he has a broken nose and he's begging those guys to get back in the game, but couldn't do it. Unfortunate hit, but thankfully he'll be OK."

Seattle's NBA bid: The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town - possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a satisfactory deal for an arena, newly released documents show.

The city turned over the documents to The Seattle Times on Friday under a public records request. The documents included the agenda for a meeting between the parties Dec. 13, with topics including "Review of Basic Deal Structure," "City Debt Capacity" and "Financing Issues."

A Seattle native who now lives in San Francisco, 44-year-old hedge-fund manager Christopher Hansen, approached the city about his desire to buy an NBA team and build an arena south of Safeco Field, the documents show. Hansen told city officials an arena could be built with minimal impact on taxpayers.

Seattle hasn't had an NBA team since 2008, when owner Clay Bennett moved the Sonics to Oklahoma City and renamed them the Thunder.