in tonight's beyond the scoreboard, horrow talks with former oklahoma city mayor ron norick about the impact of losing basketball, beginning with why the city worked so hard to land an nba team. >> when the tragedy of katrina, hurricane irene hit new orleans, it really opened up the door for us because we invited the new orleans hornets to come in and make this their temporary home while they rebuilt their building, and it gave our community a chance to showcase what we crowd offer to the league and to the other teams, and it worked, and we've just been going up ever since. and this city supports the thunder like crazy. i mean, this is a football state, but right now it's also a basketball state. >> you had a study that talked about $100 plus million of economic impact when the hornets came post-katrina, and now the thunder is the same kind of economic impact. how do you replace that? >> i don't think you do replace it. that's the problem. there was a big article in our paper this week, and it talked about who is really getting hurt on this is the little guy. it's the guy that has the