The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team is mainly owned by Hall-of-Fame member Michael Jordan, who acquired a controlling interest in the team in 2010. The Hornets play their home games at the Spectrum Center in Uptown Charlotte. The original Hornets franchise was established in 1988 as an expansion team, owned by George Shinn.
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The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team is mainly owned by Hall-of-Fame member Michael Jordan, who acquired a controlling interest in the team in 2010. The Hornets play their home games at the Spectrum Center in Uptown Charlotte. The original Hornets franchise was established in 1988 as an expansion team, owned by George Shinn. After the conclusion of the 2001–02 NBA season, Shinn’s franchise relocated to New Orleans and became the New Orleans Hornets. In 2004, the NBA established the Charlotte Bobcats, which was regarded as a new expansion team at the time. The Bobcats were officially renamed the Hornets by the 2014–15 season. The Charlotte Hornets hosted the 1991 NBA All-Star Game, and were one of the three in-state regional homes to the American Basketball Association’s Carolina Cougars from 1969 to 1974. Their uniforms, designed by international designer and North Carolina native Alexander Julian, featured a first for NBA uniforms —pin stripes. They also chose teal as its primary color, setting off a sports fashion craze in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They won their first NBA game on November 4, 1988, at the Charlotte Coliseum, losing 133–93 to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Four days later, the team notched its first-ever victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, 117–105. Despite initial concerns that the Coliseum was too big, the Hornets were a runaway hit, leading the NBA in attendance, a feat they would achieve seven more times in Charlotte.
They finished their inaugural season with a record of 20–62. Despite the team’s seven-game improvement over the previous season’s previous record, they finished with a 26–56 record in the 1991–92 NBA season. They were also the first team to host the NBA All Star Game, which took place in Charlotte on February 14, 1991. In the same season, they also hosted the NBA Finals, which they won by a score of 98–91. The NBA Finals were the first to be held in a state-of the-art arena that would seat almost 24,000 spectators – the largest basketball-specific arena ever to serve as a full-time home for an NBA team. On December 23, 1988,. the Hornets really gave their fans something to cheer about, beating Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 103–101 in Jordan’s first return to North Carolina as a professional. Members of the team rebelled against Dick Harter’s defense-oriented style, and he replaced assistant Gene Littles following an 8–32 start to the season. Despite an improvement during the following season, theteam continued to struggle, finishing the team with a 19–63 record. The first NBA draft pick, Allan Bristow, was fired at the end of the first season and replaced by general manager Alan Bristow. The next season the team won eight of their first fifteen games, including a 120–105 victory over the Washington Bullets.
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