When the disappointing 2025-26 season came to an end, Charlotte Hornets fans held onto the hope of winning the NBA draft lottery and the rights to draft generational draft prospect, Cooper Flagg. The fans weren’t the only ones with high hopes, of course; President of Basketball Operations Jeff Peterson and everyone else inside the organization shared those feelings.
Flagg would have been the juice this franchise desperately needs, but instead, they fell short in the lottery once again, landing the fourth overall pick.
In the Hornets’ latest episode of Reel Access, they showed clips from the draft workouts, interviews, evaluation conversations, the lottery, and, of course, the night of the draft.