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...might call this discretion ladylike. But there's nothing demure about how Parker plays the game. She vaulted onto the sports scene in 2004, when she became the first girl to win the McDonald's High School All-American slam-dunk competition, beating two future NBA first-round draft picks in the process. Only three college women and one WNBA player have ever dunked during a game; Parker first slammed as a high school sophomore. Although her dunks fetch the most attention, her game is complete: she dribbles like a point guard and throws no-look passes from the post...
...eerie season had begun. The Hornets tipped off their 2005-06 NBA campaign last week more than 700 miles from New Orleans, in Oklahoma City, Okla., where the team has relocated for at least a year. (To keep ties to Louisiana, the team will play six of its 41 "home" games in Baton Rouge.) NBA franchises usually get 18 months to establish themselves in a new market. From the time the Hornets finalized their move to Oklahoma City on Sept. 20 to their first regular season game on Nov. 1, the Hornets had 42 days. During that time, the team...
Over the next five days, as other NBA teams prepped for the season, Katrina overwhelmed the Hornets' business plans. The team set up a Yahoo! site to ascertain if workers were alive. Martin's father, 78 years old and eight months past triple-bypass surgery, had refused to leave his home. He was now missing, and Martin feared the worst. By Friday, Sept. 2, Mott located everyone. Martin found his dad in an Austin, Texas, shelter; he had spent three days in the squalid Superdome...
...hours were brutal, and the compressed deadlines forced strapped senior managers to execute every type of task. At 3 one morning, just 41/2 hours before a pitch meeting with a key sponsor, Tim Hinchey, the team's corporate-development chief, munched on Denny's cheeseburgers with two NBA execs while waiting for a presentation to print at an Oklahoma City Kinko's. "Here we are, three fairly experienced guys in the league, wearing our sweatshirts, jeans and baseball hats," says Hinchey. "How did we get here? This was kind of crazy." Shorthanded, the Hornets asked members of their dance squad...
Though the team's financial prospects look promising, can the Hornets keep buzzing in Oklahoma after the new-team novelty wears off? In basketball, wins often write the bottom line. The Hornets were tied for the second worst record in the NBA last year and probably won't fare much better this season. It's one thing to pack the place on opening night, quite another to repeat the feat at the April game against the Golden State Warriors, with both teams playing for nothing but pride...