{"id":54,"date":"2016-08-15T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T19:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:21:05","slug":"the-charlotte-hornets-biggest-mistake-in-the-past-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2016\/08\/15\/the-charlotte-hornets-biggest-mistake-in-the-past-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets Biggest Mistake in the Past Ten Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past years, the <strong>Charlotte<\/strong> franchise gained <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jordami01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Jordan<\/a><\/strong> as an owner, has had eight lottery picks, ten first round picks, and three picks within the top five. But, what haven\u2019t they had? An <strong>All-Star<\/strong> player.<\/p>\n<h1>The Charlotte Hornets Biggest Mistake in the Past Ten Years<\/h1>\n<h3>2007 NBA Draft<\/h3>\n<p>In 2007, Charlotte missed out on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/n\/noahjo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joakim Noah<\/a><\/strong> by one pick. Their pick, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wrighbr03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandan Wright<\/a><\/strong>, never played for the then\u00a0<strong>Bobcats<\/strong> as he was acquired by <strong>Golden State<\/strong>\u00a0on draft day in a trade for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/richaja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Richardson<\/a><\/strong>. He has been on six teams since being drafted and is currently a member of the <strong>Memphis Grizzlies<\/strong>. The pick for Charlotte made sense at the time, as Wright played his college basketball at the <strong>University of<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>North Carolina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally posted on our parent site,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Sports<\/a>. It can be read in full at the site. We are now expanding, with a dedicated site for all your basketball analysis, news and opinion. So stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Baskeball<\/a>, where we will bring you all of your favorite Last Word features, and much more, from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past years, the Charlotte franchise gained Michael Jordan as an owner, has had eight lottery picks, ten first round picks, and three picks within the top five. But, what haven\u2019t they had? An All-Star player. The Charlotte Hornets Biggest Mistake in the Past Ten Years 2007 NBA Draft In 2007, Charlotte missed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hornets","tag-charlotte-hornets"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}