Despite uncertainty about the Hornets’ ownership, how long they’ll be in New Orleans, or even if there’ll be an NBA season in 2011-12, support for the club appears to be building among fans and businesses in Louisiana.
The club has sold about 8,000 full-season tickets for 2011-12, up from about 6,300 when the 2010-11 season began.
“Being ahead of where we were last year is really a good sign considering that we’re at the beginning of May,” said Matt Biggers, the Hornets’ senior vice president of marketing. “We still have a lot of work to do because we want to get to 10,000 (season tickets), so we’re going to keep working hard all offseason to get to that number.”
The increase in support comes at a time when the Hornets, which were bought by the NBA last December, are being prepared for sale.