The 2015–16 Charlotte Hornets season was the 26th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the fourth season under head coach Steve Clifford.
 With 48–34 record, the Hornets qualified for the playoffs for the tenth time in Charlotte pro basketball history as a sixth seed, where they played the third-seeded Miami Heat.
 In a tight playoff match, the Hornets lost the first two games in Miami, before winning three straight.
 Miami took games 6 and 7, winning the series.
The 1988–89 Charlotte Hornets season was Charlotte's inaugural season in the National Basketball Association.
 The Hornets, along with the Miami Heat, began play as expansion teams during the season.
 Led by ex-Pistons guard Kelly Tripucka, The Hornets finished the season with a record of 20 wins and 62 losses, and led the NBA in attendance, becoming the first expansion team to do so.
 Charlotte also set an all-time NBA attendance record, which was broken by Minnesota the following season.
The Charlotte Hornets are a professional basketball club based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 They are members of the National Basketball Association (NBA), playing in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference.
 The original Charlotte Hornets franchise played in Charlotte from 1988–2002 before relocating to New Orleans, Louisiana and becoming the New Orleans Hornets.
 A new franchise, the "Charlotte Bobcats", began play in the 2004–05 season.
 The team played for ten seasons as the Bobcats before adopting the Hornets name for the 2014–15 season.
 The Hornets name was left available after the New Orleans Hornets became the New Orleans Pelicans.
 As part of a deal between the Bobcats, Hornets and NBA, the renamed Hornets reclaimed the original Hornets' history and records from 1988 to 2002, while all of the Hornets' records from 2002 to 2013 remained with the Pelicans.
 As a result, the Hornets are now reckoned as having suspended operations after the 2001–02 season before returning as the Bobcats in 2004; This has allowed all of Charlotte's NBA history to be recognized under one single franchise.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member club of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division.
 Founded in 1989, the team is owned by Glen Taylor.
 The Timberwolves play their home games at Target Center, their home since 1990.
The 2014–15 Charlotte Hornets season was the franchise's 25th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 This was the team's first year as the Charlotte Hornets since 2002.
 The team had been known as the Charlotte Bobcats since its revival in 2004.
 However, when the team formally changed its name to the Hornets on May 20, 2014; they also reclaimed the history and records of the original Charlotte Hornets franchise from the 1988–89 NBA season through the 2001–02 NBA season.
 The New Orleans Pelicans retained the remaining history that exists under the New Orleans(/Oklahoma City) Hornets name from the 2002–03 NBA season through the 2012–13 NBA season.
 The team was led by head coach Steve Clifford and assistant coaches Patrick Ewing, Bob Beyer, Stephen Silas, Bob Weiss, and Mark Price.
The 1990–91 NBA season was the Charlotte Hornets' third season in the National Basketball Association.
 After playing one year in the Midwest Division in the Western Conference, the Hornets returned to the Eastern Conference and moved into the Central Division.
 In the offseason, they signed unrestricted free agent Johnny Newman, who would lead the Hornets in scoring with 16.9 points per game.
 At midseason, they traded Armen Gilliam to the Philadelphia 76ers for Mike Gminski.
 The franchise improved seven games over the previous season finishing with 26 wins and 56 losses.
 However, they finished last place in their division for the third straight season.
 Top draft pick and Flyin' Illini star Kendall Gill made the All-Rookie First Team, averaging 11.0 points and 1.3 steals per game.
 Charlotte also hosted the 1991 NBA All-Star Game during the season.
 The Hornets led the NBA in attendance for the second time in three seasons.
The 1991–92 NBA season was the Charlotte Hornets' fourth season in the National Basketball Association.
 With the top overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft, the Hornets selected UNLV star Larry Johnson.
 Under new head coach Allan Bristow, the Hornets would get off to a slow start losing 8 of their first 9 games.
 At midseason, Rex Chapman was traded to the Washington Bullets as the Hornets would get stronger winning 9 of 13 games in February, on their way to finishing sixth in the Central Division with a record of 31 wins and 51 losses, a five-game improvement over the previous season.
 Johnson averaged 19.2 points and 11.0 rebounds per game, as he went on to win the 1992 NBA Rookie of the Year Award.
 Second-year star Kendall Gill led the team in scoring with 20.5 points per game.
 The Hornets led the NBA in attendance for the third time in four seasons.
The 1988 NBA Expansion Draft was the eighth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The draft was held on June 23, 1988, so that the newly founded Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat could acquire players for the upcoming 1988–89 season.
 Charlotte and Miami had been awarded the expansion teams on April 22, 1987.
 In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league.
 Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected.
 In this draft, each of the twenty-three other NBA teams had protected eight players from their roster and the Hornets and the Heat selected eleven and twelve unprotected players respectively, one from each team.
 Prior to the draft, the league conducted a coin flip between the Hornets and the Heat to decide their draft order in this expansion draft and in the 1988 NBA draft.
 The Hornets won the coin flip and chose to have the higher pick in the 1988 Draft, thus allowing the Heat to receive the first selection and the right to select twelve players in this expansion draft.
The original Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) were established in 1988 as an expansion team, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 The team's roster was filled with unprotected players at the 1988 NBA Expansion Draft, and five days later the Hornets made their first picks out of college players at the 1988 NBA draft.
 The Hornets remained in Charlotte for 14 seasons before relocating to New Orleans in 2002.
 Two years after the Hornets' departure, the Charlotte Bobcats were established in 2004.
 The Bobcats first participated in the 2004 NBA draft, two days after their expansion draft was held.
 The franchise's name was changed back to the Hornets at the conclusion of the 2013–14 season, one year after the team in Louisiana renamed itself the New Orleans Pelicans.
 The history and records of the original Charlotte Hornets were conveyed to the newly named Charlotte Hornets.
The Charlotte Hornets are an American professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Hornets were first established in 1988 as an expansion team, but relocated to New Orleans following the 2001–02 season.
 In 2004, a new expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats, was established.
 After 10 seasons as the Bobcats, the team changed its name to the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014–15 season, a year after the New Orleans franchise relinquished the Hornets name and renamed itself the Pelicans.
 In addition to re-inheriting the Hornets name from New Orleans, the Charlotte franchise reclaimed the history and records of the original 1988–2002 Hornets, effectively becoming a continuation of the original franchise.

Question: What year was the team who broke the 1988–89 Charlotte Hornets season all-time NBA attendance record founded?
Answer: 1989