Brandon Miller had a strong statement to say about his star teammate LaMelo Ball following their performance in the Charlotte Hornets’ blowout win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday afternoon.
Of all the players in the talented 2025 NBA Draft, very few expected fourth overall pick Kon Knueppel to be the guy who everyone is obsessing over halfway through the season.
The Charlotte Hornets are quietly inching closer and closer to relevancy. As of now, after another dominant win on Monday, the Hornets are +1.2 in point differential (14th in the NBA) and +1.5 in net rating (13th in NBA).
The NBA announced the player pool for the Rising Stars game, and to no one’s surprise, Charlotte Hornets wing Kon Knueppel made the list. Knueppel is battling with Cooper Flagg for rookie of the year.
The Charlotte Hornets have equaled their 2024-25 season total. It's January 27. They have undergone serious growth as a team (and the overall health of Brandon Miller and LaMelo Ball has paid dividends).
Most NBA players, no matter how successful, are out of the league before the end of their 30s, or even their 20s. That leaves a lot of life left to live, and a good handful of players have made the most of their professional lives after leaving the court.
Former NBA star-turned-analyst Charles Barkley raised eyebrows when he “guaranteed” that the Charlotte Hornets would be in the play-in tournament mix this season in a recent episode of ESPN’s Inside the NBA.
Furthering his consistent play throughout the season, Brandon Miller was at his best on Monday night as the Charlotte Hornets earned their third win in a row.
After dropping 130 points on the 76ers, the Charlotte Hornets officially have a top ten offense in the NBA per Cleaning the Glass. This isn't just a month-long hot stretch -- there is something special brewing in the Queen City.
You can count on one hand the amount of teams that have been better than the Charlotte Hornets since 2026 started, and Monday afternoon further confirmed that.
Anyone wondering who'd end up on the Rookies team for the 2026 Rising Stars Game at NBA All-Star Weekend could simply look at the first picks of last year's draft.
In a game that was moved up four hours to beat an incoming winter storm, the Charlotte Hornets brought their own blizzard, absolutely burying a depleted Sixers squad 130-93.
Brandon Miller poured in 30 points and was one of eight Charlotte players in double figures as the Hornets blew out the visiting Philadelphia 76ers 130-93 on Monday afternoon.
The Charlotte Hornets took the Philadelphia 76ers to the woodshed on Monday. Entering the rescheduled contest at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, LaMelo Ball and the Hornets wanted to extend their winning streak to three games, and it became apparent early that they were going to get that mission done.
The Charlotte Hornets have the best rookie class in the NBA, no doubt about it. General Manager Jeff Peterson absolutely hit it out of the park this year.
If you haven't been paying attention, you might be fooled by the Charlotte Hornets' 18-28 record. That doesn't strike fear into anyone, and it's not even enough to get into the Play-In Tournament in the Eastern Conference.
Today's game between the Charlotte Hornets and Philadelphia 76ers has been moved up from its original 7 p.m. start time to 3 p.m. due to the freezing cold temperatures that are expected to roll in later this evening.
The NBA season has been a spectacle this season, and it continues with the Philadelphia 76ers taking on the Charlotte Hornets. Charlotte has been having
The Philadelphia 76ers come to Charlotte on Monday without Joel Embiid and Paul George, both out with knee issues. If the Hornets want to prove they belong in the play-in conversation, this is the game to do it.
The Hornets are riding a two-game win streak as they prepare to host the Philadelphia 76ers, a team still searching for consistency despite the dominant Joel Embiid.
The Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards have combined, after their matchup on Saturday, for 28 wins at this point, which is far from a lot. They're both in the bottom four of the Eastern Conference.
All of the numbers point to the Charlotte Hornets being a borderline elite basketball team. Since LaMelo Ball returned to the lineup on December 18th and the Hornets have had their core of Ball, Brandon Miller, and Kon Knueppel available for the majority of games, Charlotte has the seventh best net rating in the NBA (+5.9).
The Charlotte Hornets have hit a stride recently and that's not something the Philadelphia 76ers can say. The teams will meet Monday night in Charlotte after the Hornets won two games in a row, while showing their improvement since the start of the new year.
Miles Bridges has heard this song before. Every year. Every deadline. Same rumors. Same noise. Same routine. And once again, he is tuning it out. “Just focus on winning, focus on controlling what I can control,” Bridges told Roderick Boone of the Charlotte Observer.
Brandon Miller scored 21 points, LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges both racked up 20 points and the Charlotte Hornets hit 52.6% of their shots from the field in a 119-115 victory against the visiting Washington Wizards on Saturday afternoon.
The Hornets are getting a jolt from their rookie class, and for once, the excitement feels earned, writes Steve Aschburner of NBA.com. Charlotte’s first-year group, led by Kon Knueppel, Sion James, Ryan Kalkbrenner, and Liam McNeeley, has injected real energy into a franchise that badly needed it.