April 2012
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Saints Owner Tom Benson Buys the New Orleans Hornets for $338 Million →
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According to multiple reports, the NBA has sold the New Orleans Hornets back to a private owner at this week’s Board of Governors meetings in New York.
The new Hornets owner is none other than current New Orleans Saints owner and billionaire Tom Benson, who will purchase the team from the NBA for a cool $338 million.
Earlier in the week, a group led by long-time NBA coach Mike Dunleavy and an investor named Raj Bhathal were considered to be the favorites, but when Benson emerged, the league quickly turned toward the Saints owner due to this ties to New Orleans and intent to keep the team in Louisiana and not relocate.
We’re a little late commenting on this, but we’re generally happy that Benson bought the franchise soon-to-be formally-known-as-the-Hornets. I’m still trying to wrap my head around fully supporting a guy we generally hated as little as 6-8 years ago, but with this new commitment to the city of New Orleans, all that’s left is to rename the franchise (and hopefully adopt a black/gold color scheme).
Bradley is pushing for The New Orleans Bounce, while I’m more in favor of the moniker The New Orleans Bishops (borrowing a black/white chess-like color scheme and a modified Fleur de Lis). Anyway, go soon to be an unnamed franchise!!
-Ryan
“In fact, the Saints had never offered the job to Parcells, and the story — always a floater — acquired a sort of momentum of its own in the hurly-burly that has enveloped the Saints since news broke last month the team employed a three-year bounty system that rewarded defenders for trying to hurt opponents.”
—James Varney.
Ignore for a second how poorly-written the second half of that sentence is, and let’s just look at the sports media now admitting that the Parcells story was completely invented by them after someone “floated” the idea and they all just ran with it. Sports media are the WORST.
(via alexanderjh)
