Paul Mott
Paul Mott
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I reported to the Senior Bowl healthy and sprained my ankle in practice, ... I reported to the Rowdies right away. I was young and naive, and I was hell-bent on making sure I could get on the field and make the team. I played hurt the whole time. My ankle is permanently destroyed.
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It's one of those things that I think it's impossible to put into words.
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Our first concern is Allan's health, but we have the utmost confidence that having Jeff in place will enable us to move on without missing a beat, ... His experience has made him knowledgeable about every facet of basketball operations and I look forward to having him use that insight to put the best possible team on the floor.
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George Shinn is the major reason why I'm here, ... I really like the man and respect him. He is a modest, unassuming man who cares about the right things. The NBA is filled with generous owners, and there's no owner that's more sincerely generous. His view on the people that are in the arena and in the community and in his staff ? he's a visionary, he's a leader. He needed a manager, and I think we've formed a very formidable duo. I believe in his vision, he believes in my ability to execute, and together I think we're doing something pretty special in New Orleans.
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That's how I got back into the game, ... It was really exhilarating to me. I've always loved the game of soccer. I found myself wanting to do more. Because I'd be wherever the U.S. National Team was playing, I'd have time on my hands, and I volunteered with the U.S. Soccer Association. They asked me to do odd jobs.
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I wanted young kids to have the opportunity to idolize pro players the way I idolized the North American Soccer League players, ... I volunteered with the committee in Dallas, and when the committee resigned itself that they couldn't get a team and closed up shop, we went to work and negotiated the contract for the Cotton Bowl. I got the North Texas State Soccer Association to give its support.
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Of course, if there are people who need to get that money refunded, then we will work to get that done. For those in Louisiana, especially in Baton Rouge, we're going to offer a presale opportunity for the Baton Rouge games. In our communication with them, we will explain what we are proposing.
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I'm committed to having a presence in Louisiana this season. What form that takes, I'm not sure,
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I'd like to sell the building out every game.
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I think the games in Baton Rouge will start in mid-December based on the parameters we got from the people at LSU. We're still in negotiations.
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That led me here, ... That's when I decided I wanted to do what I could to help the World Cup be successful.
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The Hornets (and the NBA), since our temporary relocation, maintained that one of our biggest goals was to play games in the New Orleans Arena this season.
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We will then reach out to our ticket holders as soon as we can and ask them if they'd like us to hold their money on account as a deposit on tickets for our 2006-07 return to New Orleans,
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We're going to take our resources and spread them across a wider reach. We'll repay the citizens of Oklahoma City and provide them with their best NBA experience, because this might be their only one. But we'll try not to lose step with what we were doing in the New Orleans marketplace. We don't want people (in New Orleans) to ask, 'Where were you?' These are our fans. And our fellow citizens.