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...franchise. The affable North Carolina native has given money to a New Orleans school, helped raise funds to rebuild homes, and often visits ravaged parts of the city in his off-hours. "He's just like anybody would want their child to be," says Hornets owner George Shinn...
...Making the situation worse is that the Hornets have never really fit in with a town that already lost one sad hoops franchise, the New Orleans Jazz, to Utah almost 30 years ago. The team slipped into New Orleans in 2002, when co-owners Shinn and Ray Wooldridge moved the team from Charlotte after years of fighting the city for a new arena (in early 2005, Shinn bought Wooldridge's stake in the franchise). The team struggled to draw fans in the Crescent City, and after just three seasons Katrina forced the Hornets to fly off to Oklahoma City...
...echoed that sentiment, showing little sympathy for the Hornets' struggles. "Somebody's got to get off their ass and sell tickets," he said. "They've got the best record in the Western Conference, and they can't get people to come? That's not New Orleans, that's effort." Shinn called Cuban to tell him he was "very insulted" by the remarks, and in an e-mail interview with TIME, Cuban insisted he wasn't trying to "insult" Shinn and offered his early experience with the floundering Mavericks as a blueprint; "In the same situation with the Mavs, I increased...
...Regardless of its intent, Shinn rejects the criticism. "It's easier to do a good job when you're in a huge market, and you've got a lot of money," he says. "I'm not criticizing my partners, but I don't think there's another owner in the NBA that can make this work...
...SHINN X. CHEN ’09 of Montgomery, N.J. and Quincy House Associate Design Chair...