OKC Thunder: Few links left to Hornets team that played in Oklahoma City
Chris Paul and David West aren't the only ones who are gone. On a night when the Thunder defeated the New Orleans Hornets, you're reminded that there aren't many folks still with the team who were here during the two seasons in OKC.
The New Orleans Hornets broadcast crew dined at Mickey Mantle's on Tuesday night. A patron stopped by the table and asked Gil McGregor for an autograph.
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Nice touch. Let the Hornets know they're remembered and appreciated here in the city they made Loud.
Nothing against the gregarious McGregor, a fun analyst (“Rondo, he's no Hondo”) who helped teach us the NBA, but he's about the deepest tie left from the Hornet days.
Chris Paul? Gone. David West? Gone. Any Hornet who was here during the two years of relocation? Gone.
No players. No coaches. No Hugo. Not even George Shinn, who sold the Hornets 14 months ago.
Just broadcasters Bob Licht, Sean Kelley and McGregor, plus publicist Dennis Rogers and equipment manager David Jovanovic, known affectionately around the league as Big Shot.
No one else in the Hornet entourage was here for any of those two years when OKC and the NBA started a beautiful friendship.
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