No one knows where the Charlotte Hornets' process went wrong, but the front office seems very intent on making a move now, and according to Marc Stein of The New York Times, even their primary scorer, Kemba Walker, isn't safe.
“The Michael Jordan-owned Hornets are going nowhere. Yet we advise you to track them at least through the Feb. 8 trade deadline because Charlotte will probably be forced to consider dealing Kemba Walker. If Walker stays, Jordan risks losing his best player without compensation in the summer of 2019 — or, perhaps worse, paying big bucks to hang on to him instead of starting an overdue tear-down of a pricey but mediocre roster.”
The Hornets, as a team, have become a model of mediocrity and inconsistency over the past two seasons. Night in and night out, they will have you guessing which Hornets group is going to show up — is it the one who can beat the Golden State Warriors by 11 points on the road? Or the one who gives up 123 points to the Chicago Bulls that were then losers in nine of their last 12 games?
In any case, such quality of play is quite far from their very promising 2016 campaign, where they had a young, solid core that was just a game away from the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Walker being on the trading block is nothing short of surprising. He has been the team's biggest and most reliable scorer for years, and it's hard to describe how much stagnant the Hornets' offense would be if he gets dealt. Since 2015, Walker is averaging 21.9 points, 5.4 assists, and 2.6 threes per game.
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