It's not just the arena (being) in playing condition, but will there be any fans there. I don't know how many will come back, how quickly they'll come back. I'm convinced New Orleans will rebuild. With the dollars that the federal government is putting in, I can see it rebuilding and even being stronger. But how long is it going to take This option (for a possible second year in Oklahoma City) was just a cushion just to make sure if it got to that point.
More Quotes from George Shinn:
I was in New Orleans just this past week. It is a terrible, terrible feeling to see all the homes that, to me, look destroyed. It's not just the arena. If the arena is in playing condition, will there be fans there I don't know how many people will come back and how quickly they'll come back.George Shinn
The thing everybody's got to remember is our goal is simple. We want to play in New Orleans. That's our home. But we can't. We can't come back even if the facility was clean because there's nobody else there. The city will come back. We don't know how long it will take, therefore we've got to find a temporary home.
George Shinn
Because of what they went through here with the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, they made it clear to the NBA when they called that they're not trying to steal the team. They just wanted us to have a safe place to land, maybe play here for a year or two and maybe that might help them get a professional team in the future.
George Shinn
I don't think there's a better city in the country to have an All-Star Game because of all the hotel rooms they have and all the restaurants. Is everything going to be open I don't know the answer to that. The league, they're not guaranteeing they're going to have the All-Star Game.
George Shinn
We need to make sure everything is ready so we can sell tickets and promote it. We don't want to embarrass the city and have only 1,500 people show up.
George Shinn
It's a sellout, which sends a signal around the country that New Orleans is coming back.
George Shinn
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Government QuotesI never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
Horace Walpole
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri
In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
Miguel de Icaza