According to sources with knowledge of New Orleans' thinking, former Portland Trail Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard has emerged as the Hornets' top target early on in the process. Other candidates on the Hornets' short list, sources said, are Tom Penn (Pritchard's former top aide in Portland), San Antonio Spurs vice president of basketball operations Dell Demps and former Charlotte Hornets star Rex Chapman (currently an executive with the Denver Nuggets).
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.