Hornets playing in OKC??? | TigerFan.com

NoLimitMD · Sep 19, 2005

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...lug=ap-hornets-oklahomacity&prov=ap&type=lgns

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma City officials are drafting a proposed lease agreement that will bring the NBA's New Orleans Hornets to the Ford Center to play at least part of their 41-game home schedule.

An announcement is scheduled as early as Monday on plans to temporarily relocate the Hornets to Oklahoma City after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, making it unfeasible for the team to play its season, which starts in November, in its hometown.

It is still not known how many games, if any, might be played in Louisiana. The Times-Picayune reported Sunday the team would establish most of their base operations in Oklahoma City, but would also keep a smaller office in either New Orleans or Baton Rouge.
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OkieTigerTK · Sep 19, 2005

NOOOOOOOO

I have nothing against the hornets. It is just that bringing the Hornets here will reward our prick of a mayor. When states all over the nation were setting up shelters and taking in people displaced from Katrina, our mayor made some sort of comment that he didn't think we should open up the Ford Center or Convention Center as shelters, but we did have camp grounds in Oklahoma that they could stay at. And then he added that we would take the Hornets if they wanted to come here. Slimey SOB!