The Charlotte Hornets finally got some benefit from the NBA restart.
The Hornets will have two second-round picks in the Oct. 16 draft, thanks to the Boston Celtics going 5-2 so far in the restart on Disney’s campus south of Orlando, Fla. At 48-23, the Celtics have clinched one of the NBA’s seven-best records, meaning their second-round pick (protected through No. 53) goes to the Hornets as part of the Kemba-Walker-Terry Rozier sign-and-trade in July.
That takes a bit of the sting out of the Hornets having to send a pick they control — Brooklyn’s second-rounder — to the Celtics in the Oct.