The Advocate The team with the longest name in the NBA -- the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets -- begins training camp today. Displaced from the Crescent City because of damage from Hurricane Katrina, the Hornets will train at their primary home-away-from-home at Southern Nazarene College, just outside of Oklahoma City. New Orleans' secondary home-away-from-home, Baton Rouge, is the scheduled site of one preseason game (Oct. 25 against Shaquille O'Neal and the Miami Heat) and six regular-season games, though the final three could be moved to the New Orleans Arena. "Basketball is our main objective from here on out," second-year guard J.R. Smith said in a telephone interview from the team's Media Day on Monday. "We're just going to take everything day-by-day and game-by-game. The only thing we can control is how many games we win and how many games we lose. We're still the New Orleans Hornets. We're going to keep representing the Hornets." Forward P.J. Brown said he was looking forward to concentrating on basketball as a brief distraction from trying to fix his Slidell home, which sustained water and wind damage from Katrina. Source
