Hornets to unveil new name, logos tomorrow.

http://news.sportslogos.net/2013/01/23/hornets-to-unveil-new-name-logos-tomorrow/


According to a Tweet from New Orleans Hornets Spanish-language broadcaster Emilio Peralta the team will hold a press conference tomorrow afternoon at 4pm ET (3pm local time) to announce the team will be re-named the New Orleans Pelicans and also unveil the new logos and uniforms.

The now deleted tweet, translated from Spanish to English, read as follows:

“I just got out of meeting with Hornets-Saints: it’s official. On Thursday announcing the name change and show logos, uniform. Hornets were called Pelicans. Announcement will be on Thursday at 3pm CT. Gov. Jindal will be present.”

Peralta’s Twitter account vanished shortly after his post started to make the rounds, a cached version of the page confirmed that the Twitter account did indeed belong to Peralta but was unfortunately from just before this Tweet was, um, Tweeted. So we’re relying on third-hand news for this one… but it seems plausible what with the suddenly vanishing account and all.

The New Orleans Hornets have been rumoured to be changing their name for years but talks had really picked up since Tom Benson purchased the club from the NBA.

Last month, the group that owns the Hornets registered several new team names with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and yes, Pelicans was one of them… to be honest Pelicans is the only decent name of the lot:

New Orleans PelicansNew Orleans MosquitosNew Orleans RougarouNew Orleans BullsharksNew Orleans Swamp Dogs


Looking at domain registrations we learn that the domains pelicansbasketball.com and nolapelicans.com were both registered before all these other names, back on June 1, 2012 (neworleanspelicans.com was snatched up by a graphic designer who owns several other New Orleans related domains).

The additional names were all later registered six months later, on the same day as the USPTO trademarks were filed on December 5, 2012. Every name has their ownership information blocked by the same domain privacy service, every domain registered for two years. Visting any of the addresses will produce a standard GoDaddy.com parked domain page.

Also, not that this really means anything, but the NBA still owns CharlotteHornets.com. Just throwing that bit of info out there.

We’ll keep an eye out and see if anything else trickles in between now and tomorrow afternoon.

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Thanks to Gary Walker for the heads up and Hornets247 for catching that deleted tweet!

It'll be interesting to see if the leaked logo is legit.

Its kinda crazy how sports teams always want to be some kind of an animal, bird, insect. Us humans think we are so much better than other life forms but deep down inside we want to be like a lot of them. Fearless and ferocious like a tiger, tough as a bear, elegant and sharp like an eagle or a hawk.

Well, New Orleans People would've been a bit of a bland name.

Well, New Orleans People would've been a bit of a bland name.

Reminds me of Community. Go Human Beings!

I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said "How many of you people feel like human beings tonight?" Then he said "How many of you feel like animals?" And everyone cheered after the animals part. But the thing is, I cheered after the human beings part because I did not know that there was a second part to the question. "Yes, I feel like a human being. I do not feel like a tree."

~ Mitch Hedberg

The rumors look legit!

http://www.nba.com/hornets/countdown

Not sure if this is legit tho, but I always trust my sources

Pelicans are badass.

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They are but they should have their name changed so that New Orleans can get a better name. I think this is the beginning of the end and moving of their franchise.

Not sure if this is legit tho, but I always trust my sources

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They are but they should have their name changed so that New Orleans can get a better name. I think this is the beginning of the end and moving of their franchise.

....huh? It was just purchased by the guy who owns the Saints wasn't it? Pelicans ain't goin nowhere.

Bobcats though, go away, be Hornets again.

here ya go, straight from hornets.com, via the master c0nr4d


and here is the announcement video
http://ht-mobile.cdn.turner.com/nba/big ... ndroid.mp4

You can watch the press conference here:

http://www.nba.com/live1/

and all information here
http://www.nba.com/hornets/new-orleans- ... s-unveiled

Uniforms in the "coming months"

Some of the bullets beside the colors are amusing, but other than that I don't like this idea.

Some of the bullets beside the colors are amusing, but other than that I don't like this idea.

LOL at the explanations for the different colors. should be only one bullet point that reads "my wife likes those colors"

nice logo though. best new & original logo in a long time. i wouldve given that to the Warriors but they used copperplate gothic as their font instead of making their own. too many teams are just using old logos or are just changing colors. that's lazy. nice to see tom benson (unlike clay bennett) actually hired an artist/design company to design the logo

That Bird-de-lis logo is perfect!

the Bird-de-lis one is the worst of the bunch.

I'm glad they used gold here though. Didn't need another blue/red/white colored team.

The gold is a nice touch, making them stand out a little from the other teams that have blue, red, or blue and red colour schemes. I like the logo too; I'm still a bit iffy on the name (though I have grown used to the idea since the original leak/speculation), but it's made for a good logo which helps sell it a little better.

It looks good. Like a legit professional team. Unlike the OKC wonderbread color scheme and font

It'll be interesting to see if the leaked logo is legit.

was this the leaked logo?

First, logo is very nice, NOLA alternate logo too. But, I am very disapointed with colors. I expected lighter colors, and something colorful like mardi grass alternative jersey style. so, colors are bad to me, but we will see

The logo is very good and I've become accustomed to the name. I don't like the colors but they will surely make them distinct (unlike the Nets for example who look like the Spurs).

It'll be interesting to see if the leaked logo is legit.

was this the leaked logo?

Yeah, the one that was leaked was the partial logo without the New Orleans wordmark.

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