New Orleans and Basketball #
February 21st, 2008 | In Worth Reading
At Slate, teacher David Ramsey gives a great summary of the city’s luke-warm relationship with it’s suprisingly stellar NBA basketball team.
While there is no question that the Saints are the “city’s team,” it’s the Hornets who are more emblematic of New Orleans. There was no sudden miracle. The team was slow to return and hasn’t been given enough attention by the nation at large. Rooting for them is marked by a spirit of unvanquished optimism (these guys could win a championship) and realist doubts (these guys could be in Oklahoma in two years). They are thriving despite it all, but the future seems grave.