The Hornets are back

Crap.

Typed jeez and auto-correct screwed up.

 

Maybe they can bring back the players post practice auto racing that
was so popular with Hornet fans.

 

On a side note, I've often thought that when a team moves, unless they are replaced by another team, that they should come back to their former city for an exhibition game if possible, or, maybe for NFL teams, an open practice or two.

The Kings could play an exhibition in Rochester and/or Cincinnati, and the Bears could host a practice in Decatur, for instance.

 

He's hardly the first to pull a stunt like that. I don't know much about Shinn, but I do know there are a lot of disliked owners yet the teams manage to survive and even thrive in some instances.

 

Doesn't every city that loses a franchise at least talk about suing. I've yet to see anyone win anything.

 

The Ravens could play in Cleveland, the Thunder in Seattle. I wonder how that would go.

 

Are Ravens-Browns weekends still complete shitshows of hate in Cleveland?

 

Because basketball and the NBA was - and is - well received in Charlotte. It was George Shinn who wore out his welcome … and because David Stern couldn't force him to sell, he let Shinn move the team to New Orleans, let the dust settle for a while and then announced a new expansion team in Charlotte.

 

There's no defending Shinn. He was an asshole of the highest degree. But whoever made the calls on Charlotte Coliseum most definitely screwed up. There were, I think, all of eight luxury boxes in the building. Just no revenue streams at all. It was obsolete the day it opened.

 

It also had 23,000 seats and they banged the place out regularly.

At the time the Coliseum opened, too, I don't think Charlotte was quite the corporate mecca it is today. It might've been pretty hard to sell a lot more suites.

 

The Coliseum wasn't built to lure an NBA team, it was built to bring the ACC Tournament back to Charlotte from Greensboro. All that mattered, when construction began, was that it had 8,000 more seats than the Greensboro Coliseum. Shinn, who had been working toward landing a USFL franchise at the time, then set his sights on an NBA team.

 

I would think New Orleans keeps it. It's two different franchises.