New Orleans All-Star logo unveiled
Flood-damaged Charity Hospital, where pro basketball Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler was born, remains a vacant shell and will sit in limbo until state officials figure out what to do with it.
A few blocks away is the New Orleans Arena, which will host an event next February that Drexler hopes will help revitalize the city of his birth.
During an NBA-run basketball clinic for children Tuesday on the campus of Tulane University, Drexler and Hornets forward-center Hilton Armstrong helped the NBA unveil its new logo for the 2008 All-Star game.
The symmetrical, circular logo incorporates much of New Orleans' heritage, with two fleur-de-lis symbols, eight brass horns and fringe detail that resembles the cast-iron lace adorning French Quarter balconies.
Drexler said it was important to him to be part of promotional events surrounding the All-Star weekend in New Orleans, a city where he lived as a toddler and returned often to see relatives after his mother had moved to Houston. (…)
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