Three-time ABA Executive of the Year and the first-ever General Manager of the Charlotte Hornets, Carl Scheer, made a lot of notable transactions throughout the course of his distinguished career in professional basketball, particularly in Charlotte.
From picking up Dell Curry and Muggsy Bogues as expansion players, to drafting Rex Chapman and J.R. Reid to trading for Kelly Tripucka to signing Earl Cureton, Kurt Rambis, Tim Kempton and Kenny Gattison, Scheer’s purple-and-teal fingerprints are all over the formative years of the Hornets franchise. Outside of Charlotte though, it was Scheer’s knack for innovation and outside-the-box thinking that changed the NBA and sport of basketball forever.