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This is a list of basketball players in the National Basketball Association who played for the Charlotte Bobcats after the original franchise suspended operations upon relocating and before the team was again renamed "Charlotte Hornets" in 2014.
The 2004–05 NBA season was the first season for the Charlotte Bobcats in the National Basketball Association. This season marked the return of NBA basketball to Charlotte after a two-year hiatus. [1] The original Hornets had moved to New Orleans after the 2001–02 season to become the New Orleans Hornets, now the New Orleans Pelicans. [2]
They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). [1] The Hornets were first established in 1988 as an expansion team, but relocated to New Orleans following the 2001–02 season. [2] In 2004, a new expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats, was established. [3]
The Bobcats selected 19 players from other teams' unprotected players lists and constructed their squad for what was regarded at the time as their inaugural season. [2] This was the second time an expansion draft was held for a Charlotte NBA franchise; prior to starting the 2014–15 season, the Bobcats reacquired the history, and name, of the ...
The Bobcats first participated in the 2004 NBA draft, two days after their expansion draft was held. [3] The franchise's name was changed back to the Hornets at the conclusion of the 2013–14 season, one year after the team in Louisiana renamed itself the New Orleans Pelicans. The history and records of the original Charlotte Hornets were ...
The NBA approved the move and as part of the deal, as well as to avoid a Browns-like lawsuit, the NBA promised that Charlotte would get a new expansion franchise, although unlike the arrangement agreed to in 1996 by the NFL for Cleveland, the NBA also agreed at the time to allow Shinn to relocate the extant Hornets' franchise and history to New ...
Michael Jordan became the first former NBA player to become majority owner of a basketball franchise on Wednesday when the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved the sale of the Charlotte ...
Charlotte Bobcats: 2004–05 [d] 2004–05: NBA Eastern 14th Southeast: 4th 18 64 .220 41 Emeka Okafor : Bernie Bickerstaff: 2005–06: 2005–06: NBA Eastern 13th Southeast 4th 26 56 .317 38 2006–07: 2006–07: NBA Eastern 12th Southeast 4th 33 49 .402 20 2007–08: 2007–08: NBA Eastern 12th Southeast 4th 32 50 .390 34 Sam Vincent: 2008 ...