If you follow the NBA at least, you know it very well: this season the race to become champion is at least as popular as that… to finish in the last three places in the League. Why ? Because Victor. Why ? Because Wembanyama. And in this little game, the Hornets are now positioning themselves very strongly.
Important note, for those who are still (?!?!?!) not aware: in a few months the phenomenon Victor Wembanyama will land in the NBA, and with this in mind regarding a third of NBA franchises have opted (or will soon opt) for a strategy aimed at losing the most matches, obviously in scred, in order to offer the best possible chances of recovering the French pheno in the next draft.
In this frantic race? Some well-known names, specialized for several years in the collection of tanks in the garage.
West ? The Rockets, who have already recovered Jalen Green, Jabari Smith or Alperen Sengun thanks to this clever technique, or even the Thunder, to hear them play the Playoffs every year but we are not fooled. Then the Spurs, well, last guests in the race and who would see themselves hitting the jackpot as was the case 25 years ago with a certain Tim Duncan. To the East ? The Pistons, dummies for too long and thus happy owners of young Cunningham, Ivey, Duren or Hayesthe Magic, whose project is much sexier at the moment, then the Pacers, a little too good at the start of the season but who might well join the race soon even if these madmen are still… in the positive (15-14).
Congratulations to all but all these beautiful people bow since this morning in front of the greatness (no) of an opponent taking everyone by surprise in this fabulous (no) snail race. The Charlotte Hornets, it is this very brave team we are talking regarding, thus lost their sixth game in a row last night, and if they also recorded the return of LaMelo Balllet’s say that it is especially the morning Top 10 who are likely to benefit from it.
Les prochains matchs des Hornets ? Atlanta, Denver, Sacramento, Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Blazers, Thunder, Bucks, Nets… STOP, because we have just realized that for these Hornets, each game now looks like a mountain. Difficult to flex when your trio of offensive threats is made up of Terry Rozier, Kelly Oubre Jr. and PJ Washington, difficult to flex when your starting pivot in 2022 is named Mason Plumlee, even if we have nothing once morest the American union of masons. The leaders who are too often injured, the young people who are gifted but whose ceiling is hard to imagine (Jones, Richards, Bouknight, McGowens, Thor…) and a season that started too rickety anyway with half a dozen embarrassing extra-sporting cases, it’s starting to do a lot, we remind you that it’s only December 15th.
The Hornets are therefore the newest in the NBA and this assumption might take a while to change. We remind you that it is not THE last NBA record that is “advantaged” for the Lottery but the last three, but if we can add a little panache to Charlotte by going for a season in 15-67, we do not will surely not be deprived. Especially not this year.
