Hornets Top Five In Attendance After First Night

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Though it's only one night into the new Hornets era, the fans are making their presence felt.

The Charlotte Hornets are 5th in the NBA in attendance and SECOND (behind only the Spurs) in percentage of attendance at over 101%!!!

Charlotte took back their Hornets!!!

[KendrickPanther]

You know reading twitter tonight and talking to people over the past few months. One thing I hear over and over is "Going to Hornets games was my childhood". You don't really hear that from Panthers fans. Most Panthers fans in their 20s don't reminisce about the live game day experience.

 

I put this one two things. Number 1, the Hornets put on a great show in the 80s and 90s. It was fun no matter the result. 

 

Number 2, and this is BIG. Our parents could afford to take us to Hornets games. We lived in those 8 dollar nosebleeds. Kids would go to school and brag about getting to see the Hornets and the question everyone wanted answered: "Was Super Hugo there?". 

 

Our parents didn't need to put a ten grand down payment on PSLs to get in the building. Or drop 50 per seat in the upper deck. The Coliseum held 24 thousand people and David Stern said today "we didn't think you could fill it" about the Charlotte market. Those cheap seats in the rafters was the only reason I got to go to games. We sold out every year for 9 seasons!

[Shadow]

Tonight's win was huge.  It gets the Hornets more run in the press and on the talk radio airwaves about how great the game was.  People will be talking about this game for a long time.  Hopefully they market this win to continue to fill up TWA.  In the third and fourth quarter you could feel the crowd through the television.  For one night you guys made it feel like the Hornets of old and I loved it.  All of you that went, great job because in a lot of markets when we went down 24 people would have been looking for the exits.  Sure Kemba put in work tonight but it was you guys that made this thing special.  

[SIGCHI222]

Tonight's win was huge.  It gets the Hornets more run in the press and on the talk radio airwaves about how great the game was.  People will be talking about this game for a long time.  Hopefully they market this win to continue to fill up TWA.  In the third and fourth quarter you could feel the crowd through the television.  For one night you guys made it feel like the Hornets of old and I loved it.  All of you that went, great job because in a lot of markets when we went down 24 people would have been looking for the exits.  Sure Kemba put in work tonight but it was you guys that made this thing special.  

 

Very nice observation.  I went to 20 plus games in 89/90 not so many in 88/89.  We never left back then, either year.  They could be getting blown out by 40 and most everyone was still there when the buzzer sounded.  Then you walked out of the wrong exit and spent 2 hours trying to find your car.

 

And we loved it by God.

 

 

 

[teeray]

I can't wait to watch it on TV to see if the atmosphere translated to the medium. In the arena the crowd was constantly engaged and willing the team to make a run even when down by 20+. They even booed the team at one point (which I hate but showed the fan's investment in the game)

Just an awesome experience and I will watch it on TV when I get back in town to see if it translated on TV

[PandaPancake]

They're also undefeated this season.

Even with Jordan killing it with the Bulls the Hornets had sucha strong fan base in the Carolinas. I saw some kid in Denver rocking a new Hornets shirt. I'm glad the team is back.