Charlotte Hornets: Reasons to be excited in a rebuilding year
By Fox Doucette
Charlotte Hornets fans are ready for a disaster. But there are plenty of silver linings to love while watching them in 2019-20.
Charlotte Hornets fans have reason to believe the sky is falling. When you downgrade from Kemba Walker to Terry Rozier and your three highest-paid players are Nicolas Batum, Rozier, and Bismack Biyombo, that certainly looks on paper like the 24-win team the Vegas over/under expects them to be.
Some fans are even ready for a 2012 Bobcats scenario if Twitter is anything to go by.
About 250 days from securing the worst record in the league.
— Jon Rubin (@autismdad603) September 23, 2019
The hornets are gonna be the worst in the league, this is coming from a hornets fan
— Ninjanarwhalz (@Ninjanarwhalz) September 25, 2019
But let’s cast that doom and gloom aside. The 76ers were terrible once, but fans who stuck with them got to watch the seed of talent from that 10-72 season in 2015-16 turn into a team that made the second round of the playoffs just two years later and came four Kawhi Leonard bounces away from the Eastern Conference Finals in 2018-19.
So what do Hornets fans get to look forward to this year?