George Shinn
George Shinn
George Shinnis the former owner of the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets as well the Charlotte Knights and Gastonia Rangers minor league baseball teams along with the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football. He purchased the Hornets for $32.5 million in 1987. In 1997, he lost his bid for a potential National Hockey Leagueexpansion franchise to be called the Hampton Roads Rhinos...
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I've told him that I want him back. I think he's a great coach, and he's good with the guys. So I told him if he wants to talk, he can talk to me. But I'm not going to talk to an agent. If he has an agent involved, he has to talk to (General Manager) Jeff Bower, not me.
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Like so many businesses and families uprooted by Hurricane Katrina, the Hornets were forced to leave New Orleans while the city recovers from this tragedy,
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If we sell out that game. That's a loud message. We're just trying to find out if these people are serious or not.
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It's absolutely great for the city. It will be one of the craziest weekends that this city has ever had. And the international exposure you get is incredible. It puts the international spotlight on this city.
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From the state of ... this great state.
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It was electric. It was absolutely electric. It was as good I've seen it.
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From a business standpoint, it's always benefited me. The more I give, the more I get back.
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I've got all the confidence in the world New Orleans is going to be back. The question all of us have is when.
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It's not even real. It's unreal what they're going through. I want to try to give them hope and to let them know our goal is to come back.
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The thing everybody's got to remember is our goal is simple. We want to play in New Orleans. That's our home. But we can't. We can't come back even if the facility was clean because there's nobody else there. The city will come back. We don't know how long it will take, therefore we've got to find a temporary home.
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Our goal is very clear, to go back to New Orleans. Does that make good business sense? We have got to use obviously good judgment.
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It's been absolutely incredible. We've set standards for the entire NBA and Oklahoma City has proven it is a major league city.
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The team would be an absolute financial success to stay in Oklahoma. I can't deny that. If everybody here, the state and everybody, can step up and give us some confidence, than everything's going to work here. ... I want it to work.
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I've got a fine line and I've got to be very careful because if these people have no hope, they don't want to support it. If the people in New Orleans have no hope, then they're not going to come. So it's a situation that I've got a very delicate balancing act here to try to make it work.