Too bad we lost, but it was a nice gesture:
Too bad we lost, but it was a nice gesture:
Originally Posted by badger
Yep I was there it was a fun game. Crowd was loud. They lost it in the 3rd quarter again. Seems to be a theme for this team the 2nd half of the season. Kevin Bookout was there with one of his brothers.
Nice jerseys. This whole debate over whether the Hornets will stay in OKC is getting old. With all due respect to OKC, It's kinda embarrassing the way New Orleans and OKC are at odds over this team. For Gods Sake! They only came to OKC because of the hurricane, let NO have their team back already. It's a lot like offering to let a friend stay at your house because his house burned down......and then when he tries to leave, you attempt to keep his stuff as if it belongs to you now.
Except in this scenario, add that your house is a mansion and his old place that burned down was a double wide.Nice jerseys. This whole debate over whether the Hornets will stay in OKC is getting old. With all due respect to OKC, It's kinda embarrassing the way New Orleans and OKC are at odds over this team. For Gods Sake! They only came to OKC because of the hurricane, let NO have their team back already. It's a lot like offering to let a friend stay at your house because his house burned down......and then when he tries to leave, you attempt to keep his stuff as if it belongs to you now.
NO wasn't supporting the team before the hurricane. When people do decide to return to NO, the population will still be cut in half. They're not going to be able to support an NBA team in the future. Unlike the NFL, the NBA will not subsidize a team that can't make money for their owner.Nice jerseys. This whole debate over whether the Hornets will stay in OKC is getting old. With all due respect to OKC, It's kinda embarrassing the way New Orleans and OKC are at odds over this team. For Gods Sake! They only came to OKC because of the hurricane, let NO have their team back already. It's a lot like offering to let a friend stay at your house because his house burned down......and then when he tries to leave, you attempt to keep his stuff as if it belongs to you now.
The Saints are in the same situation. Season tickets were down prior to the hurricane. The state was not going to foot the bill for a new stadium. The Saints were history. Why should the hurricane change either situation? The city has much more pressing needs than a sports franchise.
Hornets will never go back to New Orleans....OKC,KC,Las Vegas...posibilities
OKC offers much more fans and support than NO ever did, and now ever will because of all the damages and poverty in the area. I say they stay in OKC. Oklahomans support their sports teams!
Last edited by OUGreg723; 4/17/2006 at 10:00 PM.
Don't forget, Ticket prices were set to rock bottom for OKC when the Hornets came. How much support will there be when those prices return to the neighborhood of what other NBA teams charge? Right now, Going to a Hornets game is as cheap as going to an arena football game.
You poor soul, You actually see OKC as a mansion?? Don't travel much do you?
They have to return. Maybe it won't be permanent, but they have to give chocolate city something in return for taking them in a few years ago when Charlotte hated them.
Maybe we should ask the nice folks in Charlotte whose team they are. NOLA loves to play the entitlement and sympathy cards, but the truth is they never supported this team, even in playoff years, in the 3 years after they took this team away from Charlotte. NOLA should concentrate on keeping the Saints. Oh, yeah, and fixing levees, rebuilding their infrastructure, trying to elect people who aren't blithering idiots, reforming their decrepit public schools, etc...
"ESPN and Texas are now one and the same." -Stewart Mandel
our Dr. Senator wanted to take the money (more than $200 million) from Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" and use it to rebuild bridges in Louisana lost from the hurricane.
Now HOW can THEY hate US when we were one of the 15 senators that approved this?! HOW?!
That is nowhere near the truth. All NBA teams have $10 seats. We had more of them simply because the team moved so late. The Hornets had much more corporate support here than they had in NO. The Hornets don't have to charge as much because the stadium is owned by the city, and there was no subsidy. Some of the teams that charge more have to pay much more for their stadiums. The Hornets had similar charges in New Orleans. Also, the team was netting much more cash on one of our games than they ever did in New Orleans. If that isn't a recipe for them to stay, I don't know what else is. We may lose them simply because the NBA doesn't want a team hopping around, and they gave Shinn a break when he moved from Charlotte.
Metaphors be with you!
Charlotte quit supporting the team after management gutted it and got rid of their stars (Johnson, Mourning, and Bogues). At the time they went to New Orleans, the owner was so hated in Charlotte that they were happy to get rid of the Hornets. At least with the Bobcats they've got local ownership which was something they never really had with the Hornets.
"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat." - Sam Snead
I see our fan support as the mansion. Pro sports just don't really work in NO.
N.O. has lost TWO NBA franchises ferchristsakes!
Know thy self,
know thy enemy.
A thousand battles,
a thousand victories. - Sun Tzu (500 B.C.)
Look, no city OWNS an NBA team. No city is ENTITLED to its team. This idea that the Hornets belonged to New Orleans and Oklahoma City stole something is absurd. The Hornets are owned by a person, a person whose desire is to make money. The Saints and Hornets were not going to both stay in New Orleans for a long period with or without Katrina. Southeast Louisiana is simply not a large enough market to make two professional franchises very profitable.
As a longtime Rox fan and Houston resident, I can tell you for a fact that there are not many $10 seats and that the real money is made on the $60 and up tickets with numbers of tickets sold in season packages at over $200 per seat - per game! That's the kind of support you need unfortunately. People who are willing to pay tons of money to watch a bunch of spoiled millionaires act like they are gangsters, flash their tats, fall apart at the end of games and claim to be interested in the team (while whining about the NBA dress code policy and having to keep their respective entourages out of jail)
NOLA does not deserve a team...based upon track record...
Agreed, but there are still $10 seats. It is an NBA mandate. Our corporate sponsorship is even better than New Orleans when it wasn't in dire straits. The team has almost tripled the profit/game. As they say, money talks, and bulls*** walks.As a longtime Rox fan and Houston resident, I can tell you for a fact that there are not many $10 seats and that the real money is made on the $60 and up tickets with numbers of tickets sold in season packages at over $200 per seat - per game! That's the kind of support you need unfortunately. People who are willing to pay tons of money to watch a bunch of spoiled millionaires act like they are gangsters, flash their tats, fall apart at the end of games and claim to be interested in the team (while whining about the NBA dress code policy and having to keep their respective entourages out of jail)
Metaphors be with you!
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