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.
I honestly thought the Charlotte Hornets were mostly done after everything they changed this summer, because once you move LaMelo Ball, Miles Bridges, and basically rebuild the entire roster identity around Brandon Miller and Kon Knueppel, there’s only so much more you can realistically do before training camp.
The Charlotte Hornets will look a little different this season, but they still have some of their young core intact. One of those players happens to be Brandon Miller, who is expected to have a bigger role with the departure of LaMelo Ball, but he definitely showed last season that he’s capable of doing so.
With LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges now out of town, Brandon Miller is ready for his crowning moment in Charlotte. The Charlotte Hornets are expected to give their young forward Miller a lucrative new rookie-scale contract extension, Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer reported on Tuesday.
The regular season is important, but NBA legends are made in the playoffs. More specifically, it's the Finals where the all-time greats have built their otherworldly reputations.
Last summer, Finney-Smith signed with the Houston Rockets, in part because he wanted to return to Texas. Now he's buried on the Atlanta Hawks depth chart after being traded for the second time this summer.
The Heat have claimed Bez Mbeng off waivers and will sign him to an Exhibit 10 contract, according to Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald. Mbeng is expected to take part in training camp practices with the Heat next week.
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.
The Charlotte Hornets have often been compared in their rebuild to the Oklahoma City Thunder in theirs. They are an up-and-coming team with very young pieces and a truthfully ridiculous horde of draft picks to work with in the next seven years.
The Charlotte Hornets are in a pivotal season. It's not that they need to contend or have major roster decisions (they already made those this offseason) to make.
The Hornets have waived shooting guard Bez Mbeng, the team announced (via Twitter). Charlotte signed the former Yale shooting guard earlier this month,
While much of the NBA’s business has concluded ahead of the 2026/27 season, some teams are still mulling over decisions or potential changes to be made.
The Charlotte Hornets had a franchise cornerstone in LaMelo Ball, someone who was certainly All-Star-caliber and nearly made an All-NBA team last season.
In the NBA, teams typically win with one of two things: star power or depth. The teams with the requisite balance of both are usually the ones playing deep into the postseason.
Professional sports teams always carry labels, year over year. Whether it’s the fans, national media, or anyone else in between who delivers it, they all get them.
The Charlotte Hornets have been infamous for making, let's say, questionable draft decisions in the early 2020s. One of those was undoubtedly selecting Nick Smith Jr.
The Charlotte Hornets do not look like the 2025-26 version as they embark on training camp, preseason, and finally, the highly anticipated regular season.
I criticize the WTA a lot. Actually, let me correct that. I criticize the WTA constantly. I criticize its leadership. Its scheduling. Its financial decisions.
Once considered the laughing stock of the NBA, the Charlotte Hornets have risen to a respectable place, and they are doing everything they can to stay there.
The Hornets are doing a little shuffling at the back end of their roster ahead of training camp. Charlotte announced Tuesday that it has signed forward Trey Townsend and waived forward Josiah Allick.
Dennis Schroder does not want any pity points for being one of the most traded players in NBA history. The veteran combo guard was traded from the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Charlotte Hornets last week — a deal that resulted in him landing on his 12th team in 14 NBA seasons.
Dennis Schroder isn’t complaining about being traded by the Cavaliers. Actually, he seems pretty happy about it. Schroder told German outlet Braunschweiger Zeitung that he views his move to the Hornets as “a better situation for me,” citing the difficult role he had alongside Donovan Mitchell and James Harden in Cleveland.