Since the return of the Charlotte Hornets, a few different things have become staples of the second generation of the purple and teal. Kemba’s stepback, Black Buzz City jerseys, an Eric Collins “whoopdy do”, and the “Sombrero Man.”
Hector Cortes, 41, is an engineering and Spanish teacher at York Prep Academy in Rock Hill, S.C. by day, but by night he is best known for as the Charlotte Hornets super fan “Sombrero Man”.
Cortes was born in Mexico but has spent a lot of his life within the United States living in California and Utah before ultimately moving to the Carolinas in 2006 with his wife Bea.