Charlotte Hornets
Potential can be challenging to evaluate. We must attempt to peek into the future, extrapolating past information to predict what is to come. That’s what the ESPN Top 25 under 25 aims to do, ranking the 25 highest potential players in the league under a certain age threshold. As with all of ESPN’s lists, the […]
Every NBA season moves so quickly and is unbelievably jam-packed. It’s hard to catch everything; nobody does, despite what some may claim. New trends, breakouts, minor developments and changing roles can drift into the abyss that is each night’s loaded schedule of entertainment. To provide a lifeboat amid the season’s chaos, the Sportscasting NBA crew […]
The Charlotte Hornets have been granted a $6.5 million Disabled Player Exception (DPE) for power forward Grant Williams’ season-ending knee injury, sources informed ESPN’s Bobby Marks on Thursday. The deadline to use the exception is March 10, 2025. Charlotte Hornets have until March 10, 2025, to sign, acquire, or claim a player who’s in the […]
Since his All-Star sophomore campaign, LaMelo Ball’s career has been marred by injuries. It’s all too easy to forget that a then-20-year-old Ball led his Charlotte Hornets to the Play-In. Now in year five, a healthy Ball has continued ascending toward basketball superstardom. The 6-11 Hornets are a bad basketball team, limited by a lack […]
Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams sustained season-ending tears to the ACL, meniscus, and associated ligaments in his right knee, sources informed ESPN’s Shams Charania on Sunday. Charlotte Hornets forward Grant Williams was driving the ball to the paint, bumped into Brook Lopez, and lost his footing Williams suffered the injuries late in the fourth quarter […]
Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball received a $100,000 fine by the NBA on Sunday for using “offensive and derogatory” speech after Saturday’s 115-114 win against the Milwaukee Bucks. NBA levied the maximum fine possible on Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball for using anti-gay term Sideline reporter Shannon Spake asked Ball about the team’s defensive strategy […]
Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown finished with 25 points in Friday’s 124-109 victory over the Charlotte Hornets, but the night was spoiled when former Celtics teammate Grant Williams committed a “Ray Lewis”-like foul on Jayson Tatum with minutes remaining. Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown called out former teammate Grant Williams for nearly tackling Jayson Tatum Brown […]
The NBA season is well underway. While it’s too early to make sweeping conclusions about anything or anyone, it’s time to start thinking about how the year will take shape. All 30 teams have played at least two games, and each team will have its set of wrinkles they need to iron out through an […]
Midway through the second quarter of Wednesday’s season opener between the Houston Rockets and Charlotte Hornets, Jalen Green was enjoying a shiny start to his fourth NBA campaign. He’d already knocked down a pair of long balls and touted 13 points on 4-of-7 shooting. It was, perhaps, the wee stages of a breakout. Shortly after, […]
I’ll be the first person to tell you that lineup data is tricky. While it is a valuable tool for sifting through what works and what doesn’t for any NBA team, it often doesn’t provide the whole picture and is filled with an abundance of ‘noise.’ Besides, it all comes down to sample size, and […]
