It's only been a few years since the Charlotte Hornets last had a winning season (2021-22), but with all of the bad injury luck the team has had in recent years, it's probably felt like a decade for most fans.
Just a little over a year ago, the Charlotte Hornets surprised a large portion of the fan base by agreeing to a late-night trade with the Los Angeles Lakers, shipping center Mark Williams out west in a package that was expected to return former first-round pick Dalton Knecht.
You have to wonder if Charlotte Hornets fans are pinching themselves during this incredible in-season turnaround, just to be sure it’s not a dream. To go from 14-26 to 42-36 is something you just don't see very often and should be considered one of the best turnarounds in the history of the NBA.
How many of the players to lead the NBA in made two-pointers for each season of the NBA's three-point era (since 1979-80) can you name in six minutes?
Brandon Miller and Kon Knueppel each topped 20 points to lead the Charlotte Hornets to a dominant win over the Indiana Pacers, 129-108. The Pacers scored the first four points of the game, but they didn’t hold that lead for long.
Heroes run the NBA, but every story also needs a villain. For some franchises, it's a particularly hated opponent, but every now and then, it's one of their own.
Before the calendar flipped to 2026, the Charlotte Hornets were 11 games below .500 (11-22). On the 21st of January, the Hornets still did not look like they were about to turn things around; a 94-87 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers sent them down to 16-28 on the season.
The Hornets did not spend Friday night feeling out the game. They grabbed it by the throat. Charlotte came out firing, buried Indiana under a wave of 3-pointers, and cruised to a 129-108 win at Spectrum Center.
Even during another loss for the Dallas Mavericks, rookie Cooper Flagg continued to make his debut season historic. The No. 1 overall pick from the 2025 NBA Draft put together a performance the league had never seen before.
Brandon Miller scored 22 points and the Charlotte Hornets had plenty of offensive sources in a 129-108 victory against the visiting Indiana Pacers on Friday night.
Before tonight's game Rick Carlisle, head coach of the Indiana Pacers, had this to say about the Charlotte Hornets: "We know that every time we play them, we're playing one of the highest-level teams in the East." Carlisle is a sure-fire Hall of Famer with multiple championship rings in his locker -- those words should not fall on deaf ears.
The Charlotte Hornets (41-36) are sitting a bit more comfortably at 8th in the Eastern Conference, following yesterday's win over the Phoenix Suns. But there's not much time to enjoy that feeling, since the next opponent is already in town.
Basketball has changed so, so much since it was first played in the late 1800s. The NBA has a lot to do with this, and there are even a handful of players who can be credited with influencing significant shifts on their own.
The Charlotte Hornets finally have something to smile about after years in the basement of the NBA. This season, they have exceeded all expectations, currently holding a 41-36 and the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.
Hornets big man PJ Hall has been diagnosed with a right ankle fracture, according to the NBA’s official injury report. The news was first noted by Rod Boone of The Charlotte Observer (via Twitter).
The rookie race is hitting its final gear, and it’s no longer a quiet debate, but a literal split room. The latest NBA rookie power rankings feel tighter than ever, with two names dominating every conversation: Kon Knueppel and Cooper Flagg.
Friday night, the Charlotte Hornets will be looking to pick up their third straight win and clinch their first winning season since James Borrego's final year on the job five years ago.
This season has been a rollercoaster for the Charlotte Hornets, and the last couple of weeks have been emblematic of that. They won five straight games, then lost two hugely important ones against Philadelphia and Boston, before digging themselves out of that hole with victories over Brooklyn and Phoenix.
The Hornets vs Pacers matchup on Friday night could not come at a better time for Charlotte. The Hornets are fresh off a dominant 127-107 victory over Phoenix , a night in which Kon Knueppel made franchise history .
How many of the players with the single-season record in made three-pointers for each NBA team can you name in five minutes?
The Indiana Pacers and Charlotte Hornets have something in common -- they're both playing at perhaps their highest levels of the season. It's just that the Hornets will have much more at stake when the teams meet Friday night in Charlotte, N.C.
Making his rookie season even more historic, Knueppel etched his name in franchise lore on Thursday night.
Miles Bridges poured in 25 points and once the Charlotte Hornets got rolling, they cruised to a 127-107 victory against the visiting Phoenix Suns on Thursday night.
If you checked out after the first quarter of this one, you missed an absolute rollercoaster. The Charlotte Hornets looked like a team that had just woken up from a pre-game nap, sleepwalking through defensive rotations.
The Charlotte Hornets’ matchup against the Phoenix Suns is as high-stakes as it gets with six games left in the regular season. Charlotte, sitting eighth in the East at 40-36, share the same record as the ninth-place Magic, meaning every result from here on out directly shapes their play-in destiny.
In only his second game since serving a 25-game suspension for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy, Paul George played the role of hero for the Philadelphia 76ers in their win over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday night.
Say what you want about LaVar Ball. But when it comes to LaMelo Ball, the results are hard to ignore.
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