The Charlotte Hornets are coming into the 2020-2021 season as one of the youngest teams in the league. They have been slowly building around a young core and the addition of their second overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft in LaMelo Ball only goes to show that Mitch Kupchak and Michael Jordan are keen on developing a team for the future.
Ball, 19, is coming into the league as one of the youngest athletes.
Starting center Cody Zeller, one of the “veterans” in the team, has only been in the league for seven years at the age of 27–which is around the average age of the players in the NBA currently. With that said, Zeller took to Twitter to poke some fun at how young his team is.
“I just heard a few of my new teammates say they were born in 2001! Shouldn't they be about 12 years old if they're born in 2001? I had to double check that I didn't accidentally sign up for the 6th grade basketball team!” Zeller comically posted.
Jokes aside, the Hornets have built quite the young roster for the upcoming season. Alongside LaMelo Ball, the Hornets also drafted another youngster in Vernon Carney Jr., who's just six months older than the Chino Hills native. These two 19-year-olds are coming into a Charlotte unit that are already filled with players in their early 20s.
Two members of their starting unit from last season are just 22 years of age–PJ Washington and Miles Bridges. Other members in the roster who could potentially be in the starting lineup are Terry Rozier (26) and Devonte' Graham (25). The Hornets did acquire a vet in Gordon Hayward who, at age 30, is already the oldest among the bunch.
Hopefully for Charlotte, their youthful vets in Hayward and Zeller could provide some much-needed experience to help their young core develop into a legitimate threat in the East.
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