Edwin Shoffner | Blogspot

Accomplished business leader with three decades of experience as a leader in the mattress retail industry, Edwin Shoffner currently serves as the president of Mattress Wholesale and Mattress By Appointment, which are both located in Greenville, South Carolina. A season ticket holder with the Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers, Edwin Shoffner spends his time away from work attending live sporting events. The Charlotte Hornets joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as an expansion team ahead of the 1988-1989 season. Like many expansion teams, Charlotte’s early seasons were defined by inconsistency. The team had a 96-232 record over four years before going 44-38 during the 1992-1993 season, the franchise’s first with a winning record. Before long, the team had joined the ranks of Eastern Conference teams competing for a spot in the playoffs. The Hornets experienced their most prolonged period of success between 1994 and 1998. Led by a one-two scoring punch of Alonzo Mour...

Edwin Shoffner has been with six different mattress companies over more than a decade in the field, and currently serves Mattress by Appointment and Mattress Wholesale as president. Edwin Shoffner also loves to attend sporting events, and holds season tickets for the Charlotte Hornets. The Charlotte Hornets have a unique history among sports franchises, due to the migration of a previous Charlotte Hornets franchise. The team that played in Charlotte during the 1990s moved to New Orleans in 2002 and lost the rights to the Hornets name and lineage when it became the New Orleans Pelicans. The new Hornets franchise, created in 2004 and initially known as the Charlotte Bobcats, inherited the history of the previous Hornets, giving it a “best year” nearly a decade before its creation. The change also had an effect on the career statistics of one player who followed the original Hornets to New Orleans. Baron Davis, an NBA All-Star in 2002 and 2004, is considered to have been an All-Star wi...