The Charlotte Hornets have had one thing going for them this year. It's not health, sadly. It's also not the duo of LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller. It's the rookie class.
The Charlotte Hornets suffered the most embarrassing loss of the year earlier this week, falling to previously winless New Orleans. Had Charlotte won this game, the noise around Pelicans head coach Willie Green would have gotten even louder.
How you feel about Charles Lee's tenure as the head coach of the Charlotte Hornets is likely based on your expectations for the team. Those who think the Hornets are a playoff-ready, elite Popovic-ian or Carlisle-ian head coach away from making serious noise in the Eastern Conference are fed up with Lee.
The all-time list of NBA All-Stars is obviously long, and notably distinguished. However, there are some players — for various reasons — who the casual, or even most-dedicated, NBA fans can't recall having earned All-Star nods.
The Charlotte Hornets ended up with the fourth pick in the NBA draft, which meant they couldn't take either Cooper Flagg or Dylan Harper. There was discussion about Ace Bailey, Kon Knueppel, Tre Johnson, and others at fourth overall, but the Hornets ended up going with Knueppel.
Tre is someone that fans need to be patient with right now. His injury caused him to be unable to do simple tasks, such as putting on socks or laying down.
The Charlotte Hornets have fallen six spots in ESPN’s weekly NBA Power Rankings. Charlotte was No. 18 last week and landed at No. 24 in the new rankings published Wednesday by ESPN’s NBA insiders.
If there was ever a winnable game, it was what the Charlotte Hornets had last night. They were on the road, but they were facing the 0-6 New Orleans Pelicans (the last winless team in the West), and Zion Williamson was out.
Kon Knueppel has had a very impressive start for a rookie drafted by the Hornets. But it has been overshadowed by Cooper Flagg’s struggles and VJ Edgecombe’s start.
It hasn't taken Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel longs to establish himself in the NBA as the real deal. Through his first seven games, Knueppel is shooting 43.1 percent from three.
The Charlotte Hornets went scoreless for the last several possessions of the game as they choked it away to the previously winless New Orleans Pelicans.
After finishing a three-game homestand with a dominant victory over the Utah Jazz, the Charlotte Hornets are jet setting to the Big Easy for a clash with Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans.
Tonight, the Charlotte Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans will square off at the Smoothie King Center. Charlotte looks to improve to 4-4, while the Pelicans are still searching for their first victory of the season.
Heading into the 2025-26 season, the Charlotte Hornets came into the year with a questionable plan at the center spot. Following the trade of Mark Williams, they had no proven guy to man the middle.
Through seven games, the Charlotte Hornets resemble what we expected. They're clearly better than last year and not a basement-dweller any longer, but they're also not quite good enough to contend for the playoffs.
The Charlotte Hornets have officially sent their 2024 sixth overall draft pick, Tidjane Salaun, down to the Greensboro Swarm for what feels like the umpteenth time.
The Charlotte Hornets are desperately trying to make it out of the basement of the NBA, continuously building the young core with a plethora of draft picks.
Miles Bridges scored 29 points and Kon Knueppel added 24 as the Charlotte Hornets, despite playing without guard LaMelo Ball, whipped the visiting Utah Jazz 126-103 on Sunday night.
Sixers center Joel Embiid got hit with a $50,000 fine for “making a lewd gesture on the playing court” the NBA announced. The moment happened in the first quarter of Friday’s one-point loss to the Celtics and was caught on video.
The Charlotte Hornets are trying to emerge from the basement of the NBA and become postseason contenders in a weak Eastern Conference. Not having been to the playoffs since the 2015-16 season, the Hornets have been rebuilding for a decade, and time is ticking with LaMelo Ball at the helm.
The Charlotte Hornets picked up the options of Brandon Miller and Tidjane Salaun, the team announced today. While it is not surprising that the Hornets chose to keep the pair in the fold, they did wait until the last day to make the decision.
The Hornets have picked up their rookie scale team options on wing Brandon Miller and forward Tidjane Salaun, the team announced Friday in a press release.
Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball has been fined $35K by the NBA for making an obscene gesture during the team’s loss to the Heat in Miami on Tuesday, the league announced today in a press release (Twitter link).
The Miami Heat traded a first-round pick to the Charlotte Hornets for Terry Rozier in 2024. Now that he's been arrested, the team may be looking for a refund.