Right before the 2026 NBA season gets underway for the Charlotte Hornets they already have a key issue emerging. Head coach Charles Lee said Kon Knueppel, who is dealing with a hamstring injury, and Coby White, who is dealing with recovering from his calf injury, will start the season off with no timetable for their return at the moment.
Just before the deadline to do so, the Charlotte Hornets and Brandon Miller agreed to a five-year, $209 million rookie-scale extension. It is well below the max, and it sits just ahead of the Amen Thompson extension in terms of 2023 draftees.
The Charlotte Hornets have a few candidates for NBA awards. Brandon Miller is the favorite for Most Improved Player. Charles Lee is a candidate for Coach of the Year.
The Charlotte Hornets have officially locked down their offensive centerpiece for the foreseeable future. After the LaMelo Ball experiment, the team is officially committing to forward Brandon Miller with a massive five-year, $209 million rookie-scale contract extension.
The Charlotte Hornets underwent a lot of changes this offseason, but young forward Brandon Miller isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. With the rookie-scale extension on Tuesday evening, the Hornets and Miller agreed to a massive five-year deal worth $209 million.
Who is the X factor for every NBA player this season? We’re not talking about the go-to guy, like Nikola Jokic or Steph Curry. It could be a big-name player, an all-star, or a bench player, but they are the pivot point for their team.
Charlotte Hornets forward Brandon Miller agreed to a five-year, $209 million extension, according to multiple reports on Monday. Miller became the main building piece for the Hornets when the club traded guard LaMelo Ball to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the offseason.
The Hornets are making a major commitment to Brandon Miller, agreeing to a five-year, $209 million rookie-scale extension, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
The Hornets and fourth-year forward Brandon Miller are in agreement on a rookie scale extension, beating the deadline by roughly one hour, reports Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link).
Typically, the path to the NBA for most players is to spend at least a season in college to get high-level basketball and important development under their belts.
In an offseason that the Charlotte Hornets traded away the face of their franchise in LaMelo Ball, the organization crowned a new face of the franchise Monday in Brandon Miller.
The next time the Charlotte Hornets get on the court, it will mean something. The 2026-27 regular season is, for better or worse, one of the most hotly anticipated seasons in Hornets history.
The Charlotte Hornets are, stop me if you've heard this before, not remotely fully healthy coming into the season. The preseason was harsh, as the Hornets lost Kon Knueppel, Grant Williams, and Coby White for the entire thing (and others missed some time) and went 1-3.
After the Charlotte Hornets’ LaMelo Ball trade over the summer, Brandon Miller and Kon Knueppel became their cornerstones. The Hornets are expected to extend Miller’s contract ahead of the upcoming season.
A thank you note marked the end of Pat Connaughton’s tenure in North Carolina just a week short of his 12th NBA season. The Charlotte Hornets have officially trimmed their roster down to the league-mandated 15-player limit ahead of opening night, waiving the 33-year-old veteran guard and 2021 NBA champion.
The Hornets wanted to keep Pat Connaughton around. In the end, they couldn’t find room. Charlotte announced Friday that it waived the veteran wing, resolving a roster squeeze before the start of the regular season.
The Hornets have waived Pat Connaughton, according to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link). The team has confirmed the news (via Twitter). Connaughton had looked like the odd man out in Charlotte for some time.
The Charlotte Hornets do not acquire stars easily. Unlike big market teams like the Lakers, Knicks, and Heat, they lack the ability to lure top-end talent, giving added importance to any they do manage to find.
Three hours before tip-off Wednesday night, TD Garden was nearly empty. The familiar roar of the Celtics faithful had yet to fill the arena, replaced by the sounds of players beginning their pregame routines.
As far back as July, my YouTube co-host/Hornets on SI colleague Albert Böttcher and I have discussed Tidjane Salaün, Pat Connaughton, and the outlook for Charlotte’s end-of-15-man-roster conundrum more than any sane human being should.
Game preview written by: Albert Böttcher Preseason basketball has come and almost gone! And the Charlotte Hornets aren’t much smarter than they were before, or at least not as smart as they hoped they would be.
The Charlotte Hornets are beginning the season anew. One of them is that it will be Naz Reid’s first season in Charlotte after being traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for LaMelo Ball.
The Hornets suddenly have a lot more offensive talent. What they may not have is someone who organizes all of it. ESPN identified Charlotte’s biggest roster hole as a pass-first playmaker after the team traded LaMelo Ball to Minnesota over the summer.
The list of destinations for NBA superstars has rarely included the Charlotte Hornets. After their best season in a decade, Hornets management is making moves like they're ready to join that list.