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The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team commenced play in 2002 after the NBA granted founder George Shinn an expansion franchise to play in New Orleans.
The Pelicans were established as the New Orleans Hornets in the 2002–03 season when George Shinn, then owner of the Charlotte Hornets, relocated the franchise to New Orleans.
Aug 30, 2024 · New Orleans Pelicans, American professional basketball team based in New Orleans that plays in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Pelicans, founded in 1988, were originally located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and were known as the Hornets.
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The New Orleans Pelicans have technically only been an NBA team since 2012, but their history traces back to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1988. So how did a team with absolutely no NBA titles to its name sell out home games with no problem?
Sep 27, 2013 · When the city’s minor league professional baseball team became a member of the Southern League in 1887, it was named the New Orleans Pelicans, a tag it kept all the way through its final...
Jul 6, 2024 · The reasons the New Orleans Pelicans exist are both historical, cultural, and strategic. The team was founded in 2002 as the New Orleans Hornets; it moved temporarily to Oklahoma City in 2005 following Hurricane Katrina.
The team that is now the Pelicans began as the Charlotte Hornets in 1988 and remained so until 2002 when they moved to New Orleans. in 2014 the New Orleans Hornets became the New Orleans Pelicans and the name transferred to this current franchise.
