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Kobe tweets Hornets "had no use for me"; Bonnell responds with draft night story

Dorian Gray

By Dorian Gray,
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This is so much like the Browns/Ravens garbage that it's stupid. People so desperate to cling to a name. A dream they had when they were kids. This team is *still* the Bobcats. They're the exact same people in the exact same spot in the exact same city. Don't let marketing convince you that something has changed. The only thing that changed is that they're trying to galvanize people to buy tickets based on a team that no longer exists. B-but they're the Hornets again!! ...come on.

 

George Shinn murdered the Hornets. Murdered the ghosts of Larry Johnson and Mugsy Bogues. That team moved somewhere else. They still exist under a different brand name.

 

I swear. Some of you folks act like if I put a triscut sticker on your box of wal-mart crackers you'd be eating triscuts.

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We simply got the history back. We didn't get the actual franchise. While history says we drafted Kobe, that organization moved to New Orleans. This isn't difficult to figure out.

 

you still can't dump all of that onto the Pelicans though. the front office that is now down there didn't draft Kobe to New Orleans, they drafted him to the Charlotte Hornets. so we'll forever be linked with that through the history books

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This is so much like the Browns/Ravens garbage that it's stupid. People so desperate to cling to a name. A dream they had when they were kids. This team is *still* the Bobcats. They're the exact same people in the exact same spot in the exact same city. Don't let marketing convince you that something has changed. The only thing that changed is that they're trying to galvanize people to buy tickets based on a team that no longer exists. B-but they're the Hornets again!! ...come on.

George Shinn murdered the Hornets. Murdered the ghosts of Larry Johnson and Mugsy Bogues. That team moved somewhere else. They still exist under a different brand name.

I swear. Some of you folks act like if I put a triscut sticker on your box of wal-mart crackers you'd be eating triscuts.

In the months since they changed to the Hornets, they got rid of Higgins, had the lottery luck bounce their way for a change and had the best draft since the original Hornets left. They also have an exciting young team with cap flexibility. They've been about as anti-Bobcats as you can be during this stretch.

I understand getting frustrated over the confusion, but to be a complete wet blanket about everything because things have changed is taking it too far, IMO. Alonzo and Larry Johnson are probably too engrained in their current franchises but Muggsy and Dell have been front and center being ambassadors for the team.

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