re: Best New Orleans Pro Basketball player that will be known for their time in New Orleans?

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Got to be Pistol Pete

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So the way I phrased my question was kind of bait. It eliminates people like Alonzo Mourning but I knew we’d get a lot of Pistol ones.

The most associated player to our city played for a team that hasn’t been here in 42 years.

I dare say we have the worst history of any team in the nba. Basically every player we’ve ever had would simply say in passing “oh yeah and then I played in NO”

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So the way I phrased my question was kind of bait. It eliminates people like Alonzo Mourning but I knew we’d get a lot of Pistol ones.

The most associated player to our city played for a team that hasn’t been here in 42 years.

I dare say we have the worst history of any team in the nba. Basically every player we’ve ever had would simply say in passing “oh yeah and then I played in NO”

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You do realize there was about a 23 year period where there was no team here, right?

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You do realize there was about a 23 year period where there was no team here, right?

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Uhhh yeah. I’m not even really accepting Pete as an answer.


In the entire history of the New Orleans hornets/Pelicans there isn’t one player primarily associated with us. No one to this point would choose to “retire a Pelican/Hornet”



That’s wild to think about.

Maciej Lampe

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Jackson Vroman RIP

David West is clearly the answer if we aren’t including Pistol Pete.

He played new than half of his career in New Orleans, and all of his best seasons from a stat standpoint came in New Orleans.

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And CP3 played here as long as anywhere else in his career and his 2 seasons were here.

But that’s not how he will be remembered

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Would think West would be remembered as a Hornet. Certainly not a Spur or Warrior, so the only other option would be a Pacer, but he tailed off a good bit by then.

Darrell armstrong