You look at any draft, the majority of players taken in the first round are guys you’ve never heard of that made close to no impact on the league. It’s all a gamble.

Hindsight is ²⁰⁄₂₀. Takes a bit of luck and knowledge to get the right player.

“Arguably the worst draft pick in team history”

We declined 6 picks (4 firsts) to take Frank Kaminsky. Nice try, bozo.

I largely agree with you about it being a poor pick, but the Grizzlies side reports offering #9, 39, and Luke Kennard, NOT future first round draft picks.

We would have liked to see the Hornets-Grizzlies deal go through, as a package of No. 9, No. 39 and Luke Kennard for No. 6 would have landed Clingan in Memphis while also getting the Grizz at least temporarily out of the luxury tax.

Charlotte still might have been able to get Tidjane Salaün at No. 9 and would have had players like Cody Williams, Matas Buzelis, Devin Carter and others on the board if not.”

Important distinction because Hawks also tried to trade down, and weren’t able to garner any offer with future firsts from anyone. In 2025, since it was a better draft, we were able to trade #12 for #23 + 2026 NOP/MIL unprotected first rounder.

The fact that the Hornets aren’t picking up Salaun’s option doesn’t mean that they’re letting him go or he won’t be playing for them this season.

You’re ignoring the fact that this pick was made in a historically terrible draft with very few palatable options. Taking a flyer on an upside guy wasn’t a terrible idea in theory.

hate that you made this post on this NBA sub knowing everyone on this sub besides hornets fans actually watch our games. so you’re just allowing people to shit on the team and TJ. yes TJ hasn’t played amazing but he’s shown tons of promise and improvement. he’s shown to be a potential legit 3&D role player for us. he played great against the sixers.

This is why picks are overrated tbh

Find you someone that loves you as much as this dude hates TJ.

I swear I’ve seen at least 5 posts over the last couple days on this sub from this guy just shitting on him.

Zack Edey is a franchise cornerstone? Don’t you need to play like over 20 minutes a game to be considered a franchise cornerstone lol

I mean you can’t predict how a prospect pans out. I always see “oh they should have drafted this player or should have agreed to trade” like who knows right? Unless they can predict the future. You still need a bit of luck to land the right player.

Danny Ainge was willing to trade multiple picks to get Justice Winslow and the Hornets ironically also declined cause of Frank Kaminsky

Diabate is a good enough Center and zero chance they let him go

Every project player that doesn’t pan out was an obvious bust from day one and every one that turns into a star was an obvious star from day one

Tidjane honestly isn’t even that bad, he’s got that Gobert flair to him where he’s a little stupid looking but when he plays he’s usually relatively productive

I’m okay with not having either of those guys. I like Diabate and Kalkbrenner at the 5. Hornets just need Coby and Kon back because their offense is anemic without them.

Edit: Knicks fan living in Charlotte 15 years, Hornets are like a step-child.

Probably wont be out of the rotation as he’s been impactful as a rotation player but yeah they should’ve drafted one of the bigs. Edey would change my life.

Also, no one on this sub cares about your rage screeds about the Hornets bro. You dont have to post these daily lol.

This is a ridiculous post. Tidjane is the worst draft pick in Hornets history?? You don’t need to go terribly far back to find guys much worse. How about James Bouknight? Kai Jones? PJ Hairston? I’m sure I could think of a bunch more but there’s three turds of the top of my head.

Tidjane is a not a great player by any stretch but he’s showing things and improving. I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s in the rotation, even after other guys like Kon and Coby get healthy. The Hornets will sign him to a like 3yr/$15M deal.

Also, Clingan and Edey are “franchise cornerstones?” On what fucking planet?!? You act like this draft was loaded with stars, it was not. It was a bunch of bums who also did not have their options picked up. Edey and Clingan are some of the better players and they are just solid rotation guys. Here are a couple other guys drafted in a similar range:- Cody Williams- Rob Dillingham- Matas Buzelis- Nikola Topic- Devin Carter

Lmao, knew who OP was before I even clicked on the post. Not surprised to see he usually posts on the circlerjerk sub. Seems to be his level of maturity.

The thing is that tons of us were saying this was who he was going to become before the draft. This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone, many of us knew for a fact this day was coming.

CHA just wanted to be smarter than everyone else and basically used their lottery pick as a gambling token