amcoolio wrote:SWedd523 wrote:No, we'd be the same franchise with a different name. The "Hornets" records belong to the team currently in New Orleans, whatever they change their name to
That would be really confusing when 10 years from now, someone asks "who scored the most of in a game in Charlotte Hornets history" and the answer could be two different things. I'd think you would have to include any record by the Hornets 88-02 and Bobcats 04-2015 or whatever.
Do the Bucks include records from when the Hawks were in Milwaukee?
76ers from when the Warriors were in Philly?
Mavericks from when the Chaparrals (Spurs) were in Dallas?
Hornets from when the Jazz were in New Orleans?
Bulls from when the Packers/Zephyrs (Wizards) were in Chicago?
The new Seattle Sonics (whenever they get another team) won't have any record of Payton, Kemp, Schrempf, etc.
Records are attached to a franchise, not a name. Muggsy never played for the team I support. Neither did LJ, Zo, Dell, or Robert Parish's old ass.
EDIT: When the Browns left for Baltimore, they left all of the names, colors, and history in Cleveland. When Shinn left, he took everything. That's a completely different scenario. The only one similar to the Browns was the way the Sonics left for OKC. There was an agreement (now expired I think) that if a team returned to Seattle within a # of years then they would get all of the history back. ... didn't work out.