The New Orleans Horpnets are an American professional basketball team in the NBA, the team is based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Hornets joined the NBA in 1988 as an expansion franchise based in Charlotte. They moved to New Orleans in 2002 until Hurricane Katrina forced them to relocate temporarily to Oklahoma City. They split their time between New Orleans and Oklahoma City during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 campaigns but returned permanently to their home in New Orleans for the 2007-08 season
The New York Knickerbockers, known familiarly as the Knicks, are a professional National Basketball Association team based in New York City, and the most valuable franchise in the league, valued at $608 million. The organization was a founding member of the Basketball Association of America in 1946 and would join the NBA after the BAA and National Basketball League merged. The Knicks are one of only two teams of the original National Basketball Association still located in its original city (the other being the Boston Celtics). The team was originally known as the Knickerbockers, which it has retained as the official name, as reference to the synonymity between the term and New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over their sixty-two years of existance, the Knicks have won two NBA championships and eight NBA conference titles.
