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The 1992–93 NBA season was the fifth season for the Charlotte Hornets in the National Basketball Association. [1] In the 1992 NBA draft , the Hornets selected Alonzo Mourning out of Georgetown University with the second overall pick.
In December, the team traded Johnny Newman to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for Rumeal Robinson. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] However, the Hornets would soon struggle as Larry Johnson injured his back, and second-year star Alonzo Mourning was out with a torn calf muscle and sprained ankle.
The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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]
Team League Conference Finish Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB [a] Playoffs Awards Head Coach; Charlotte Hornets: 1988–89: 1988–89: NBA: Eastern: 12th Atlantic: 6th 20 62 .244 43 Dick Harter: 1989–90: 1989–90: NBA Western: 14th Midwest: 7th 19 63 .232 44 Dick Harter Gene Littles: 1990–91: 1990–91: NBA Eastern 12th Central: 7th 26 ...
At a press conference regarding the change, team officials also announced that as part of a deal with the NBA and the renamed New Orleans Pelicans, Charlotte acquired the history and records of the 1988–2002 Hornets (in a move similar to that of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns return to the league in 1999), while all of the ...
The Hornets are waiving Jackson, league sources told The Observer on Tuesday. The veteran point guard was acquired from Denver in a six-team trade that also landed Josh Green from Dallas and a ...
After ending his baseball career, he was drafted in 1993 by the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA. He was later traded to the Golden State Warriors and then the Chicago Bulls, where he won a championship ring. He next played with the New Jersey Nets and then finished his NBA career with the Hornets in 2000–01. He played in other professional ...
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 ...