The Charlotte Hornets held a 25-minute news conference Wednesday to introduce Jeff Peterson, the new head of their basketball operations.
In those 25 minutes, the phrase “premier franchise” — as in becoming the premier franchise of the NBA — was used eight times.
The vision that Peterson and co-owners Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin kept referring to was as lofty as Mount Everest. They want to turn this place into the best franchise of the NBA, they kept saying, over and over.
And that’s a laudable vision. But Peterson is a native of Missouri, the Show-Me State, so he’ll understand my skepticism.