The Hornets moving then subsequently being bad when they were brought back made me lose interest in NBA basketball for sure. At least they're not the Bobcats anymore, that's a start.
I used to love the Hornets back in the day.
I did too. One of my very earliest sports memories was watching Mourning hit that shot to knock Boston out of the 1993 Playoffs. A few months later we moved to Charlotte. Went to many games, saw everyone. Kobe, Shaq, Ewing, Barkley, Malone, Hakeem, Garnett, Iverson, Hill....
I bought a 12 game pack for the Bobcats in 2010-11, did it up until the last season before the name change when ticket prices skyrocketed. During that time I very briefly got to meet MJ at a fan event thing at the arena, just shook his hand and that was it. I was there alone so I didn't want to bother him too much and be an autograph hound but he clearly did not want to be there, in fact he left like 15 minutes into the hour-long event. I was actually told by one of the long time season ticket holders that the last couple of times he did nothing but pressure the fans there to buy his Jordan-Branded Bobcats shirts and also tried to pressure them into buying his Hanes apparel.
I get he is a well known athlete who didn't get a lot of privacy in his playing days, but he's not playing anymore and he's done nothing other than market his name to draw interest to fans. He also doesn't have a clue how to run a team.