http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2011/07/the_hornets_vigorous_season-ti.html
It was also Day 14 of the NBA lockout, but that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm in Ron and Sally Forman’s Uptown home as the Formans welcomed Hornets chairman Jac Sperling, president Hugh Weber and members of the team’s sales staff in the hopes of padding the season ticket rolls by 20.
Where else but New Orleans could you stand around a bountiful buffet table, an open bar nearby, and be updated on the relatively astounding success of an effort by the Hornets of selling 10,000 season tickets by mid-September for a basketball schedule that could be shortened — or canceled entirely — by a work stoppage?
“This is a collaborative effort that’s designed for New Orleans and the current situation,” said Sperling,
the man NBA Commissioner David Stern placed in charge of the league’s ownership of the Hornets when it took the unprecedented step last December of buying the team so that it wouldn’t be sold and pirated out of the city by interloping carpetbaggers.
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