From the moment Michael Jordan sold his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets to financiers Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall, the question in league circles has been when is the organizational overhaul coming, not if there would be one. It seems we have reached that moment.
Mitch Kupchak is stepping aside as Charlotte Hornets GM, moving into a role as an organizational advisor, and the search for a new GM is underway, a story broken by Adrian Wojnarowski at ESPN that the team has since confirmed.
"As Mitch nears the end of his contract, we agreed that now was the right time to begin the search in order to put the organization in the best position for the upcoming offseason," Plotkin and Schnall said in a statement announcing the change.