The Charlotte Hornets blew up most of their team in 2 weeks. Will it make a difference?

The Charlotte Hornets spent the final hours before the trade deadline scorching the earth around their current team. And given that team is currently 10-40 and one of the worst in the NBA, that’s a good thing. Charlotte had already traded Terry Rozier on Jan. 23, and then they shipped out P.J. Washington and Gordon Hayward on Thursday in two separate deals. They didn’t trade Miles Bridges, which is too bad, but they did get back a couple of future No. 1 picks and a couple of players who grew up in Charlotte — Grant Williams and Seth Curry.

Yes… Seth Curry. It has been Seth’s older brother Steph who has been rumored for years to be a candidate to play for the Hornets at the end of his career, but Charlotte instead got the younger Curry brother. On the plus side, Seth can really shoot, just like his Dad, Dell, and his older brother. And the Hornets now can field a team with all North Carolina connections on the court: Curry, Williams, Cody Martin (N.C. State), Leaky Black (UNC) and Mark Williams (Duke). You can argue about various segments of this flurry of moves by the Hornets, but surely no one will argue this:

Moving on from Hayward is a good thing. Hayward, signed to a four-year, $120-million contract by the Hornets in 2020 and then quickly began getting hurt all the time. Well, not really, all the time — 41.3% of the time. It only seemed like more. The Hornets always acted shocked when Hayward got hurt again for one reason or another, calling it a freaky injury or something like that. But freakiness must have been a character trait of Hayward’s body. Has been for quite a while. Let’s remember, the Hornets knew when they gave Hayward that $120 million that he had missed the entire 2017-18 season with Boston due to a serious leg injury.

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