Forget the All Star Game. HB2 Puts Entire Hornets Franchise At Risk

[KamaAina]

http://www.progressncaction.org/news/hb2-has-hornets-franchise-at-risk

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has said that the NBA is considering moving the All-Star game, currently set for Charlotte, unless there is a change to HB2. He has gone further to suggest that the bigger problem for the NBA now is having the Hornets franchise in North Carolina . The loss of the NBA team to Charlotte and NC would be a huge economic setback, one of the many since HB2's signing.

Potential Seattle owner C. Montgomery Burns of Springfield was seen rubbing and hands together with glee and exclaiming "Excellent, Smithers!"

[bluedigger]

1. That trickle could become a flood.

If the NBA pulls out, that leaves the NFL, and MLB (I know the Red Sox have a minor league team there.)

[KamaAina]

2. And, of course, the NHL.

Winnipeg got the Jets back. Hartford Whalers, anyone?

[bluedigger]

3. I knew I was leaving the NHL out.

I was too lazy to search for them.

[KamaAina]

4. How on Earth could a Boston guy forget the Whale?!

[bluedigger]

5. Harry Sinden ruined me for Boston hockey.

And I'm a Maine guy, not a Boston guy. The Whale were not on the TV up here.

[KamaAina]

6. But they had quite the rivalry with the B's back in the day

Think Rangers-Islanders, Penguins-Flyers, etc.

[bluedigger]

7. Didn't get into it until college.

We didn't have any rinks nearby, so it wasn't a local sport. And by then, I think the Whalers were gone. I missed the Bruins' glory years pretty much.

[madinmaryland]

8. Heh! I went to Gordie Howe's Restaurant/Bar in Glastonbury, CT a few times

back in the mid 1980's. Nice place to hang out, but it was a bit far for me, even as I lived in Middletown.