CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CAROLINA SPORTS LIVE) -- Let’s get this out of the way. Ellis Jackson has never been to Charlotte, much less been to a Hornets game.

“Never,” he says smiling. “And that is something that shocks a lot of people.

That’s because even though he lives in Gloucestershire, England, the 33-year-old has a love for the Buzz that he admits borderlines on obsession. And it all started about 10 years ago, with a gift from his wife’s aunt.

“She actually bought me my first Hornets jersey, which was a Kemba Walker jersey,” he remembers.

He says it was the color that piqued his interest. Then again, he also says it might have been how he felt when he first put it on. Regardless, that one jersey eventually multiplied into a closet full of them.

“It is my guilty pleasure I would say, I

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