The Charlotte Hornets have put together a rather perplexing offseason.
After failing to make a serious effort to re-sign All-Star point guard Kemba Walker, the Hornets replaced their now-former franchise cornerstone with Terry Rozier via a sign-and-trade with the Boston Celtics. Rozier is a fine player, but the reported three-year, $58 million deal he received from Charlotte seemed a bit steep.
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the Hornets paid the price for a player they’re clearly very high on. That said, Charlotte president and general manager Mitch Kupchak opted for a pretty bizarre way of expressing the franchise’s view of Rozier.
“We feel like if he was in the draft this year, Terry Rozier would have been a lottery pick.” – Mitch Kupchak
— Charlotte Hornets (@hornets) July 7, 2019
Uh, what?
The basketball world unsurprisingly took Kupchak to task for his peculiar take.
You don’t pay lottery picks 60 mil for 3
— CallMeDragon (@USCTrojans1313) July 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/LamarHeisman/status/1147706086121713671
Just delete the franchise at this point
— . (@goknickstape) July 7, 2019
Very strange flex pic.twitter.com/TbHTYYLm5T
— Zona (@AZSportsZone) July 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/Adam_Jacobi/status/1147689147441790977
We have a feeling the Hornets will find themselves with a lottery pick for the fourth straight summer in 2020.
