Deputy Commissioner, and soon to be full-on commish Adam Silver visited the Charlotte Bobcats Monday night to speak to season ticket holders. The discussion quickly turned to what it would take for the Bobcats to change their nickname.
Silver told reporters that the team would have to decide that the financial impact would be more positive than negative, and the entire process would take around 18 months.
That would mean if the Bobcats were leaning toward changing their name, it would be the beginning of the 2014-15 season before they could be re-branded.
Much of the talk surrounding the Bobcats this season has been about the possibility of changing the team's name back to the Hornets, which the New Orleans Hornets have jettisoned in favor of becoming the Pelicans.
No decision has been made by the Bobcats to even change the name yet, so it seems to make sense to help the team out a bit by suggesting a few.
If Charlotte does end up changing the name, I can only hope they end up opening the process to the public and allow people to submit their own suggestions like the Minnesota Timberwolves di ...
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