{"id":693,"date":"2013-05-21T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=693"},"modified":"2013-05-21T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:52:58","slug":"jordan-bobcats-will-change-name-to-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/05\/21\/jordan-bobcats-will-change-name-to-hornets\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Bobcats will change name to Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-694\" alt=\"hornets\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/hornets.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/hornets.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/05\/hornets-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte Hornets will be in the NBA once more. Charlotte Bobcat owner Michael Jordan announced on Tuesday at a press conference that he had informed the NBA of his decision to change the teams name to Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s announcement on Tuesday was hardly news but rather confirmation of news that began spreading two days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte will continue to play as the Bobcats next season but if all goes as Jordan plans his team will become the Hornets in time for the 2014-15 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spoke to our season ticket holders and fans, and overwhelmingly you guys wanted Hornets name back,&#8221; Jordan said. &#8220;And we went out and brought the name back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pete Geulli, Charlotte&#8217;s executive vice president and chief sales marketing officer, estimated the cost of changing the name to the Hornets will cost about $4 million. He added, however, that the decision wasn&#8217;t based on money and that &#8220;nothing was going to keep us from going down this road because this is what the fans wanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously the Hornets played in Charlotte from 1988-2002 before moving to New Orleans. The team recently changed their name to Pelicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets will be in the NBA once more. Charlotte Bobcat owner Michael Jordan announced on Tuesday at a press conference that he had informed the NBA of his decision to change the teams name to Hornets. Jordan&#8217;s announcement on Tuesday was hardly news but rather confirmation of news that began spreading two days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}