On the day of the trade deadline, Charlotte Hornets fans had a lot of expectations following a series of trade rumors. For the second straight season, the Hornets did not make a trade at the deadline.
In the past week, fans were tortured with all of the trade speculation surrounding the Hornets. In the end, the front office was not able to come up with a deal before the deadline.
Rod Boone of The Athletic suggested that the Hornets didn’t want to “jeopardize the nearly $50 million in cap space alone they will get when the contracts of Bismack Biyombo, Marvin Williams and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist come off the books in June.