Everyone knows how Kobe Bryant almost became a star for the Charlotte Hornets. Not many realize he also had the opportunity to play the New Jersey Nets. The move was supposed to happen at the 1996 NBA ...
And for Kobe Bryant, a prodigiously talented member of the team, the pressure is on to reproduce the form that made him the NBA's most valuable player of 2008. When he lines up for the U.S. "Dream ...
Charlotte drafted two future MVPs—Kobe Bryant and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Neither played a single game in teal. Here’s how those trades shaped decades of disappointment. You don’t often get a shot at ...
The Los Angeles Lakers made a franchise-altering move by trading Eddie Jones to the Charlotte Hornets in the middle of the lockout-shortened 1998-99 NBA season. Jones, their 10th overall pick in the ...