ESPN: If New Orleans Hornets move, Kansas City is on the short list. But let’s be honest …

Like everyone else in America, the New Orleans Hornets are broke — and their brokeness is going to revive talk of the NBA returning to Kansas City.

Hornets owner George Shinn is too cash-strapped to run the team and can’t find a suitable buyer, ESPN reported on Sunday. So the NBA, for the first time in league history, is on the verge of buying the team and trying to sell it off. And while the league prefers to keep the team in New Orleans, its first priority will be finding the best owner possible — even if that owner wants to move the team.