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Great Moments in New Orleans Hornets History

1988 - The Birth of the Hornets. The Charlotte Hornets joined the NBA in time for the1988-89 season, as the league added four new teams in a two-year stretch. The club suffered through the usual expansion-team doldrums for a few years but then built a solid roster thanks to productive draft picks. Within a relatively short period the Hornets assembled a star-quality nucleus of forward Larry Johnson and center Alonzo Mourning, who led the team to the playoffs in only its fifth year. By the 1996-97 season both Johnson and Mourning had been traded, but Charlotte still looked to be a team on the way up, and the Hornets responded by winning 54 games in 1996-97 and 51 this past season.

Many doubted the Charlotte community's ability and willingness to support a professional basketball team. For one thing, it was a small city (although the area did have a sizable market within a few hours' drive). And North Carolina was college basketball country, where the fans' ardor for the amateur game had never translated into a similar affection for the NBA. Nevertheless, Charlotte was admitted to the league on April 22, 1987, along with Minnesota, Miami, and Orlando. Charlotte and Miami began play in 1988-89, while Minnesota and Orlando first saw action a year later.

The Charlotte team adopted the name Hornets, which had historic importance in Charlotte sports history-for many years the city's minor league baseball team was known as the Hornets, and its World Football League team had carried the same name. Owner George Shinn hired Carl Scheer as the team's first general manager. As commissioner of the American Basketball Association, Scheer had successfully run the ABA's Carolina Cougars from 1970 to 1974 before moving on to revitalize the Denver Nuggets in the mid-1970s. On the other hand, he had also been associated with the dismal Los Angeles Clippers teams of the mid-1980s. Shinn named Dick Harter as the Hornets' first head coach. Known as an astute basketball man with a defensive orientation, Harter had been a successful college coach and had several years' experience as an NBA assistant.

2002 - The Birth of the New Orleans Hornets. Expectations and emotions were high for the Hornets as the team began its first season in New Orleans, picked among the favorites going into training camp to vie for the Eastern Conference title. Opening night at the New Orleans Arena was a fairy-tale start to the season. The New Orleans Hornets played the former New Orleans professional team, the Utah Jazz, and won 100-75. That win sparked the Hornets 11-0 start at home, the best in franchise history. But once again the injury bug stung the Hornets throughout the season.

Elden Campbell's knee surgery propelled Jamaal Magloire into the starting lineup. Magloire's improved production in the paint combined with Campbell's slow recovery kept Magloire in the starting lineup. Campbell was later traded to the Seattle Supersonics. Baron Davis's troubles began December 1 when back problems kept him out of the lineup for the first time in his career. He would go one to miss 32 regular season games with back and knee injuries. Jamal Mashburn returned to good health and had a career-year after a season plagued with injury and illness. He played in all 82 regular-season games and was selected to the All-Star team, both firsts for his career. He also led the team in scoring (21.6 ppg) and was second in assists (5.6 apg). The New Orleans Hornets ended the regular season as the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference and faced Allen Iverson and the fourth-seeded Philadelphia 76ers in the first-round of the playoffs. It was a tough battle for the two teams but the New Orleans Hornets eventually fell in six games, ending their playoff run.