For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

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In 2004, two years after the Hornets ' relocation to New Orleans, the NBA returned to North Carolina as the Charlotte Bobcats were formed as an expansion team.

* DeSagana Diop, basketball player, Charlotte Bobcats

In December 2006, the Charlotte Bobcats organization announced it would no longer operate the Charlotte Sting.

They are the only major league professional sports team in North Carolina to play in Raleigh ; the state's other two major franchises, the NFL's Carolina Panthers and the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, are based in Charlotte.

* Charlotte Bobcats

On April 3, 2009, the Miami Heat clinched a playoff spot with a win over the Charlotte Bobcats.

The Magic swept the Charlotte Bobcats and the Atlanta Hawks in the first two rounds of the playoffs, respectively.

This record was broken by the 2011-2012 Charlotte Bobcats which was shortened due to a lockout.

More recently, the Charlotte Bobcats added pinstripes, perhaps as a tribute to the Hornets ' tenure in Charlotte.

Finally, a new arena in Uptown ( what would eventually become the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, later the Time Warner Cable Arena ) was included in a non-binding referendum for a larger arts-related package, and Shinn withdrew his application to move the team.

As part of a deal, the NBA promised that Charlotte would get a new team ( which took the court two years later as the Charlotte Bobcats ).

In addition, Benson has announced that he will change the team name to something that would better suit the region, fueling rumors that the Hornets name could one day return to Charlotte, where the Bobcats currently play.

On July 3, 2008, the Chicago Tribune reported that Del Harris agreed to become an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls along with former Charlotte Bobcats head coach Bernie Bickerstaff and longtime NBA assistant Bob Ociepka.

Meanwhile, Tyrus Thomas was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats for Acie Law, Flip Murray and a future protected first round pick.

In the week following the trade deadline, the Spurs also signed forward Boris Diaw after Diaw's contract was bought out by the Charlotte Bobcats, and former Portland Trail Blazers guard Patrick Mills who played for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the CBA during the lockout.

Shooting guard Jason Richardson was also traded to the Charlotte Bobcats for rookie Brandan Wright.

In November, a discontent Stephen Jackson and seldom-used Acie Law were traded to the Charlotte Bobcats for Raja Bell and Vladimir Radmanovic.

They were hapless for the next seven seasons, including a 12 – 70 record in the 1986 – 87 season that was the second-worst single-season record in NBA history at that time, and is now the third-worst winning percentage in NBA history behind the 1973 76ers and the 2012 Charlotte Bobcats.

* 1986 – Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque daughter of Caroline, Princess of Hanover

* 1986 – Charlotte Stokely, American porn actress

* 1989 – Charlotte Gurr, English footballer

* 1985 – Charlotte Salt, English actress

* 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )

* 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( d. 1715 )

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1816 – Charlotte Brontë, English author ( d. 1855 )

* 1775 – Charlotte of Spain ( d. 1830 )

#* Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte ( 1802 – 1839 )

#** Charlotte Christine Bonaparte ( 1795 – 1865 )

#** Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Egypta Bonaparte ( 1798 – 1847 )

#*** Julie Charlotte Pauline Zénaïde Laetitia Désirée Bartholomée Bonaparte ( 1830 – 1900 )

#*** Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Bonaparte ( 1832 – 1901 )

* Bonnie Ethel Cone ( 1907 – 2003 ), an American educator best known as the founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

In 1842 Charlotte and Emily travelled to Brussels to enrol in a boarding school run by Constantin Heger ( 1809 – 96 ) and his wife Claire Zoé Parent Heger ( 1804 – 87 ).

* Charlotte Brontë – Drawing by George Richmond ( National Portrait Gallery )

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

On 10 May 1499, Cesare married Charlotte of Albret ( 1480 – 11 March 1514 ).