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Charlotte Hornets

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Also known as: Charlotte Bobcats
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Charlotte Hornets, American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that plays in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team, originally known as the Bobcats, joined the NBA in 2004 as the league’s 30th franchise. The team’s owner was Robert L. Johnson, an American media mogul who, with the founding of the Bobcats, became the first African American majority owner of a franchise in one of the four major team sports leagues in the United States. Although the Bobcats featured talented young players such as Rookie of the Year centre-forward Emeka Okafor and forward Gerald ...(100 of 373 words)

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