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1988 charlotte hornets roster1/30/2024 ![]() Why do I bring this up? I had someone stop me over the weekend and say “hey, I’ve seen some layoffs in the news, how’s business?” My reply was I’m busier than ever and he was surprised so I shared with him the story of the 1988 expansion draft. Guess who was protected by their teams? Certainly everyone on that list above and every other player on a team who was most likely providing more value than they cost. Something else I didn’t know was that each NBA team could protect 8 of the 13 players on their roster making those players ineligible to be drafted by the Hornets. college draft (would add 2-3 players), and 3. expansion draft (this would make up the majority of the team), 2. What I didn’t know about the buildout of the Hornets roster (and the Miami Heat) was that it would be done via three primary methods, 1. If you were an NBA fan at the time (or just didn’t live under a rock), you might recall some of the higher profile names of that era, just look at the MVP voting that season: Jordan, Bird, Magic, Barkley, Clyde the Glide, and the list goes on. I’ll take those 5 guys and give you the field and like my odds. As a 10 year old, I’m thinking, Jordan is from North Carolina and he’s going to play for the Hornets, yay! I think every person in Charlotte, NC were beside themselves when it was announced in 1987 that we’d be one of the cities selected for a new NBA team. I still have memorabilia from that season and other early seasons in the Hornets franchise and though I don’t follow them as closely as I used to…something about the team moving, coming back under a different name, changing names, all the while being terrible will do that to you, but I digress. Same for college sports corruption and dont even mention the unc chapel hill academic fraud.Publishes this article on our blog yesterday and wanted to share here as well. consumers pay for these zillionaire spoiled brats playing kids games with trillion dollar cable contacts ripping america a new one. Pro sports in general was many times better back then and had no thugs criminals or scammers. ![]() Too bad the Observer Sports Dept ran you off to New Orleans. Thanks for hammering that one out way back with Stern in NY.Īnd thanks for the Triple A team too. You sold all your 50 tech schools and stuck your neck out for this former sports dead town who was supposed to only get a Golden Arches franchise and never an NBA team per a Phoenix AZ Sports Editor. ![]() James Edgar- thanks for the great comment! And I'll take Kite and Lowe down. The Cavs stretched it out a bit in the second, then completely demolished us in the third. We were only down a few points entering the second quarter. (Incidently, Greg Kite and Sidney Lowe weren't on the opening night roster they were late-season additions to the team.) Tripuka scored the first basket. The starting 5 were Kurt Rambis, Kelly Tripuka, Dave Hoppen, Rex Chapman and Ricky Green. Didn't have a ticket, but I watched every second of the TV broadcast. I had been in Charlotte about 2.5 months (moved here from Ohio to attend UNCC).
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