The Hornets played their final home game in Oklahoma City during the exhibition season on October 9, 2007 against the Houston Rockets, as a way to say thanks for the temporary hosting.

In a 2008 interview with the Charlotte Observer, Shinn ( who has not returned to Charlotte since the Hornets moved ) admitted that the " bad judgment I made in my life " played a role in the Hornets ' departure.

In the first regular season NBA game played in New Orleans in over 17 years, the Hornets defeated the Jazz 100 – 75, and posthumously retired # 7 of " Pistol " Pete Maravich during halftime.

The Hornets also introduced a yellow uniform in 2010 which is used mostly in games played on Saturday at home and on the road.

* Robert Parish ( played for the Hornets from 1994 – 96 )

In the first game of the next round against the Chris Paul-led Hornets, San Antonio was badly defeated 101 – 82 as Duncan played one of the worst playoff games in his career, recording only 5 points and 3 rebounds.

However, after playing in only ten minutes against the Hornets on November 22, 1994, Bol suffered what proved to be a career-ending injury, and never played in the NBA again.

Though the Hornets played all but a handful of games during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons in Oklahoma City — and even temporarily changed the team's name to the New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets, the basketball team's ownership insisted they would return to the recovering city as soon as possible.

Madden is a graduate of the Victoria Village House League and has also played for a number of minor league teams, including the Don Mills Flyers, Scarborough Bruins, Hillcrest Summits, and the Junior " C " Alliston Hornets, before moving up to the Junior " B " Barrie Colts.

Mike Payne, a native of nearby Westwood, graduated Hornets programs at age 17 and played OHA Jr. B.

They played their home games at the Charlotte Coliseum, then also home of the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association.

Bullard played nine seasons with the Houston Rockets ( 1990 – 94, 1996 – 2001 ) and one season each with both the Atlanta Hawks ( 1995 – 96 ) and the Charlotte Hornets ( 2001 – 02 ).

On December 10, 2008, in a game against the Charlotte Bobcats, the Buccaneers were for the first time " revived " by the New Orleans Hornets, the city's current NBA franchise, who played the game in 1967-68 styled Bucs throwback jerseys.

* Bo Molenda: played for Michigan ( 1925 – 1926 ), head coach for Menlo College ( 1950 – 1969 ); also an assistant coach in professional football for the New York Giants 1936 – 1941 ( interim head coach for the 1939 NFL Championship Game ); Green Bay Packers ( 1947 – 1948 ); Chicago Hornets ( 1949 )

The now-defunct New Orleans Brass of the ECHL played in the New Orleans Arena their last three seasons before their demise in 2002, caused in part by the arrival of the Hornets.

* The Hornets played their first game, since the start of the 2005-06 season, at the arena on March 8, 2006, to a sellout crowd of 17, 744, as the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Hornets, 113 – 107.

The Pittsburgh Hornets, members of the American Hockey League ( AHL ) played home games at the Duquesne Gardens, located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.

He played for the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings twice, Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins, the Ontario Hockey Association's Hamilton Red Wings, the AHL's Pittsburgh Hornets, Montreal Voyageurs, Adirondack Red Wings, the Central Hockey League's Fort Worth Wings and the IHL's Toledo Goaldiggers.

He played two further seasons with the Leafs before being demoted to the Pittsburgh Hornets in the American Hockey League.

In the 1976 World War II film Midway, starring Henry Fonda and Charlton Heston, Dobson played the non-fictional character of Ensign George Gay, a pilot and the sole survivor of Torpedo Squadron Eight from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornets ill-fated opening attack against the Japanese fleet on June 4, 1942.

Hoeppner played for the Detroit Wheels and the Charlotte Hornets of the World Football League for one season each.

He attended high school at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario, and has previously played for the Charlotte / New Orleans Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers, New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, and Miami Heat.

The financial losses were mind-blowing: The Hawaiians had lost $ 3. 2 million, while the New York Stars / Charlotte Hornets had over $ 2 million of debt, and just $ 94, 000 in assets.

* On May 15, 2010, at just before 11: 00am, a Cathay Pacific Airbus A340 commercial flight from Hong Kong was intercepted by two Canadian CF-18 Hornets in response to a bomb threat.

In four games at Charlotte, the Hornets sold over 80, 000 tickets compared to just 75, 000 in seven games at Downing Stadium.

Prior to that, all home games for the Hornets and Bats were held at World War Memorial Stadium, just northeast of downtown Greensboro.

The primary front-line air-defence fleet consists of 33 F-18 Hornets ( 34 aircraft were originally purchased, with one aircraft lost in a crash ) organized into three squadrons ( 11, 17 and 18 ) along with 54 F-5 Tiger IIs ( 110 originally purchased ).

Captain Hiller leads a squadron of F / A-18 Hornets on a sortie against one of the spaceships.

Eventually, six teams were chosen for the tournament: all three division winners, and three wild cards ; however, the 9-11 Philadelphia Bell were awarded a wild card despite finishing one game behind the 10-10 Charlotte Hornets in the Eastern Division, as the Hornets could not afford to travel to Orlando for the first round.

The Magic were one of the four new expansion franchises awarded by the NBA along with the Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves.

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.

The NBA had granted one of its four new expansion teams on April 22, 1987 ( the others being the Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets, and the Miami Heat ) to original owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner to begin play for the 1989 – 90 season.

Within the traditional focus in Indiana on high-school basketball, the Beech Grove Hornets have earned one IHSAA State Championship — that of its girls team, in Class 3A of the 2003 tournament.

* April 14 – 15 ( overnight ) – 18 United States Air Force F-111Fs of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing and a United States Navy force of 15 A-6E Intruders, six A-7E Corsair IIs, and six F / A-18 Hornets from the aircraft carriers,, and attack Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon, with the loss of one F-111 and its two-man crew.

The 2007 – 08 Mavericks were 51 – 31 under coach Avery Johnson and lost in the first round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs to the New Orleans Hornets four games to one.

On March 28, 2008, Cassell was honored as one of the 20 greatest players in Milwaukee Bucks history during the team's 40th Anniversary Team Celebration, but could not attend the festivities because of the Celtics ' game against the New Orleans Hornets.

Currently, there are a total of 175 Hornets and Super Hornets home-based at NAS Lemoore operating from one Fleet Replacement Squadron and fifteen Fleet Squadrons.

He was selected eighteenth overall in the first round of the 2004 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets — one of nine players who were drafted that year straight out of high school.

In January 2006, after the NBA's New Orleans Hornets decided to move two games from the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge because of low attendance, and the Ford Center in Oklahoma City was unavailable for one of the games against the Sacramento Kings, it was moved to the Lloyd Noble Center.

Phase one was mostly completed by the beginning of the 2007 home football season in September and phase two was completed in time for the Flashes ' first home game on September 13, 2008, against the Delaware State University Hornets.

In 1972, the Twins also placed a Class A Western Carolinas League franchise, the Charlotte Twins, alongside the Double-A Hornets ' franchise ; it lasted only one season.

However, Charlotte was eliminated in the opening round of the league playoffs, losing three games to one to Spartanburg, which had finished 27 games behind the Hornets in regular league play.

After one season ( 1997 / 98 ) of break he returned to the NBA and played there until the 2005 / 06 season for Seattle SuperSonics, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and New Orleans Hornets, for Rockets and Knicks intermittently with several stints.

Davis played one season at the University of Iowa before being selected by the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the 1998 NBA Draft, as the 21st pick overall.

After playing in only one game with the Spurs in the 1991-1992 season, Massenburg was traded to the Charlotte Hornets where he played for three games before moving on to the Boston Celtics for seven games, and then also to the Golden State Warriors for another seven games ; ending his season with a total of 18 games and 90 minutes played with four franchises that season.