The dust kicked up by the flurry of moves early in the 2023 offseason has all but settled. Apart from the Damian Lillard and James Harden trade requests, most of the player movement has completed and the impactful free-agent signings put pen to paper long ago.
As a result, the market is pretty barren for the Charlotte Hornets, who are still in need of the “backup ball-handling guard” and veteran leadership that general manager Mitch Kupchak mentioned the franchise was seeking. Frank Ntilikina and R.J Hunter were brought into the fold recently on non-guaranteed deals, but neither project to be a long-term answer to any of the Hornets’ roster problems.