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Article: Oklahoma City hotels sad to see New Orleans Hornets go
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- April 12, 2007
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Next to the 12,000 or so season ticket holders, perhaps nobody
will be sadder than hotel managers the day the New Orleans/Oklahoma
City Hornets drop the second city off their name and return home.
The National Basketball Association is one regular-season home
game away from completing its second year in Oklahoma City following
relocation due to Hurricane Katrina.
The financial rewards were many for the Hornets, and they were
quite good for hotels in downtown Oklahoma City, as well.
Provided the NBA and Hornets owner George Shinn don't have a
change of heart, the team will head back to New Orleans, where it
struggled prior to the hurricane. The Hornets' attendance went from
the bottom of the ...