George Shinn bought the stadium after the 1987 season when he bought the team, and renamed it Knights Park.
George Shinn (born May 11, 1941) is the former owner of the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets as well the Charlotte Knights and Gastonia Rangers minor league baseball teams along with the Raleigh–Durham Skyhawks of the World League of American Football.
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Shinn was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina and was a poor student growing up, graduating last in his high school class of 293 from A. L. Brown High School.
By 1996 George Shinn, owner of the then Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) indicated that he was looking to the Hampton Roads as a potential location for a NHL expansion team.
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The franchise would be under the ownership of George Shinn and play in a proposed $142 million arena to be constructed in Downtown Norfolk.
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Then-Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn owned the franchise, and the head coach was former NFL player and N.C. State alumnus Roman Gabriel.