NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Outgoing Hornets minority owner Gary Chouest says he remains as interested in keeping the NBA in New Orleans as he was when he first invested in the club.
Chouest attended Friday night’s home game against Oklahoma City and says the reason he bought into in the Hornets “hasn’t changed from Day 1.”
A Louisiana native whose company supplies vessels to the offshore energy industry, Chouest became a part owner when the Hornets returned to New Orleans from Oklahoma City in 2007. Last spring he neared a deal to take full control, but negotiations with majority owner George Shinn stalled, and Chouest won’t comment on why.
The NBA is now purchasing 100 percent of the team pending approval by the league’s board of governors.
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