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Encyclopedia > Charlotte Hornets

Charlotte Hornets may refer to several sports teams based in Charlotte, North Carolina: Nickname: The Queen City, The Hornets Nest Official website: http://www. ...

The nickname "Hornets" for Charlotte teams is historically based in the American Revolution, during which the British General Cornwallis referred to American resistance in the vicinity as a "Hornet's Nest". The name stuck as a nickname for the city itself. The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA, is the premier professional basketball league in North America. ... The New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets are a National Basketball Association team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Minor League Baseball, formerly the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues and also known in the past as NAPBL, National Baseball Association, and NA, is the organization which oversees the governing and organization of minor league baseball in North America. ... The Charlotte Hornets baseball team was originally founded in 1901. ... Charlotte Hornets was a football team in the 1974-75 World Football League. ... WFL logo The World Football League was an American football league that played in 1974 and part of 1975. ... The American Revolution was a revolution that ended two centuries of rule in Thirteen Colonies of North America by the British Empire and created the modern United States of America. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


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Charlotte Hornets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (167 words)
The minor league baseball Charlotte Hornets, a team that was based in Charlotte, North Carolina for over 70 years (1901-1973).
Charlotte Hornets (WFL) a defunct World Football League team (1974-1975).
The nickname "Hornets" for Charlotte teams is historically based in the American Revolution, during which the British General Cornwallis referred to American resistance in the vicinity as a "Hornet's Nest".
New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1855 words)
Charlotte, North Carolina was one of those cities blessed with a new NBA team, along with Miami, Florida for the 1988-89 season.
Charlotte Hornets was used by the city's minor league baseball franchises from 1901 to 1972, and also by its entry in the short-lived World Football League in 1974 and 1975.
The Hornets, with the lineup of Davis, Wesley, Mashburn, Brown and Campbell made it back to the playoffs, where they upset the third-seeded Heat and made it to the conference semifinals for the third time in franchise history, before losing the the Milwaukee Bucks.
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