I always hear the term “Small Market” thrown around when the media is discussing the Charlotte Bobcats and it got me wondering, “population wise” how does the city of Charlotte stack up against other cities in the NBA. Now, I know other things get thrown into determining what is a viable NBA market, but I would say population is the most important one.

Well, the information I found was surprising to me. According to multiple sites Charlotte is ranked 17th in the country in population and is the first/second/third fastest growing city (depending on which site you visit). Then, out of the 16 cities that are bigger than us, 10 of them have NBA franchises (New York has Knicks/Nets, Dallas/Fort Worth have Mavericks so I counted them as one and I gave San Francisco the Warriors even though technically they are in Oakland).

So what does this mean? It means that out of the 29 teams in the United States the Charlotte Bobcats would fall into the #12th spot in terms of population and that Charlotte is bigger than over half of the cities in the NBA with teams.

This may mean nothing to you. However, is said to me that Charlotte is bigger than it gets credit for and that we have more than enough people to support an NBA franchise….so I say we Bring Back the Buzz

(l realize we have a relatively small metro area, we also have a pretty low population denisty and like I said “I know other things get thrown into determining what is a viable NBA market, but I would say population is the most important one”

My main message was that Charlotte has more than enough people to support an NBA franchise)

Well it has been a week and we have recieved a ton of ideas for “The Motto” on the return of our BEEloved Charlotte Hornets! Here are some of them and again the winning motto will be turned into something pretty cool 😉

So we wanted to try something fun! I’m sure all of you have heard the motto for the B**Cats this year, “Tougher, Faster, Stronger.” With that being said we wanted to hear everyone’s opinion on what the motto should be for the Charlotte Hornets when they return to the Hive!

Just comment on here or send them to us on Facebook & Twitter  and we will then make another post of all the submissions and put them on a poll! The winner will obviously be the one with the most votes and we will do something special with it 😉

With the NBA trade deadline coming very fast and arriving this Thursday at 3pm the B**Cats have some moves they should be making in the near future if they do indeed wish to make this team “Tougher, Faster, Stronger”!
The recent developments with Ben Gordon and his increasing disrespect for Dunlap has caused the organization to consider his welcome “worn –out” in Charlotte.

Link to Gordon flare-up story: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/14/3856178/source-bobcats-gordon-dunlap-involved.html

With Gordon getting paid a hefty 12.4 million this year and a negotiated 13.2 million next year. He ironically only averages 12.6 PPG this season and not so impressive 2.2 APG & 1.9 RPG. So the B**Cats are looking to trade him to another team and hopefully get rid of an extra Shooting Guard

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One of the options being rumored is the possibility of trading him for Kris Humphries of the Nets ( you might know him better as the soon to be X-husband of Kim Kardashian) . Kris gets paid around the same amount as Ben and though he does average a little less baskets per game (6) this season, he could be a much needed boost to our very weak post game.

Another option being explored is the center Andre Bargnani from Toronto. He has a very weak defense and rebound game but has a very good perimeter shot and averages 14.8 points per game. This is also a good deal for the pockets of the B**Cats because he is only getting paid 10.7 in Toronto for next season if they keep him. A problem with him is the fact that he’s missed 79 games in the last two-plus years.
So the question we are coming to you with is “What should the B**Cats do with ‘Ol Ben?”

Information is coming and it is coming fast. We have been on the phone with Charlotte Bobcats all morning trying to find the answer to “If we buy season tickets today would we be able to participate in the survey?”. The answer to that question is YES! 

The other thing I was told, is that there WILL be a SURVEY going out to the CITY in a few days asking the same question. I was then informed that season ticket holders’ opinion will be looked at “differently”. Which I perfectly understand because you do not want to anger the people who are already supporting you. 

I then had a wonderful conversation with the Bobcats’ employee. I told him who I was. I also thanked him and the Bobcats for putting out this survey and I let him know that we are Bobcats fans. He said that he knew about our event last Saturday and that if anyone wanted to speak with him about seasons tickets to call in. He also told me that a lot of the season ticket holders who were calling in were saying that they wanted the “Hornets” name back. 

He was really excited to hear that the Bring Back the Buzz guys were fans of the team and I told him that I would be at the game tonight! We then talked about Haywood not being the answer, Cousins trade rumors and Rudy Gay trade rumors. All and all it was awesome to have some positive interaction with the our franchise.

Last month Steve Jones of Creative Loafing Charlotte wrote an article about why the Hornets should not return to Charlotte. Well, needless to say he received a ton of backlash when we posted it on here…even from his own nephew Jamie Jones. 

Enough to convince him to wanna hear our side. Well, earlier this week I had an interview with Steve Jones (great guy), telling him about our movement, explaining to him it’s importance and everything else. 

Now, Steve just told me that it was posted but also that there where some mistakes that happen when it was given to the editor.

The Mistakes Are as Follows

I am the “Co-Founder”, could not have done this without my brother Evan.

I was originally asked about the excitement ofwww.bringbackthebuzz.com , our twitter, and blog taking off. When it went through editing, that somehow got changed to me being asked about We Beelieve: Charlotte…take back your Hornets! as if it were mine instead of John Morgan’s page (We BeElieve not We Believe…John and myself had a laugh over that one)

It also made Steve seem like he was angry , but in reality he was a really cool guy and fun to talk to.

The important thing is that we got some PR, it mentions the SWARM Time Warner Event, and gets us some ATTENTION BEFORE WE SWARM!!!!!

http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2013/01/18/buzz-off-how-i-managed-to-piss-off-nearly-every-hornets-fan-in-town