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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You have been absolutely incredible and we are so grateful. Tonight is a celebration for Oklahoma City with what you have done for us. We will never forget this. We are so grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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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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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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It was electric. It was absolutely electric. It was as good I've seen it.
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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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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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This is just the beginning of our commitment to provide relief to our family, friends and fans who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, ... New Orleans is our home, and we are focused on helping to rebuild and revitalize our great city.
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On behalf of his teammates, coaches and the entire organization, we wish him well and hope he learns from this experience.
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The NBA said we'll be announcing it at the end of the month, and I'm predicting a few days after that. The end of the month is not until Tuesday, I think, so just hold your breath until then.
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I'm not going to be crazy about it but our goal is to get better.
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I just want the best to happen to this city. Everybody politically or business-wise, whatever, wants us to come back, so that's good. But the bottom line is, it's got to make sense. What would be bad is ... if we come back and three years later have to leave. That doesn't help anybody.
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I've got to be very careful. I've got to keep my options open, and I don't want to make (NBA commissioner) David (Stern) mad. I've got a lot of things I've got to do. Our goal and plan is to go 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.