2024 NBA Title Odds: Books Say Hornets Stand No Chance
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No one is expecting the Charlotte Hornets to compete for an NBA championship in 2023-24, nor should they. But I would think most expect the Hornets to be a vastly improved team with (potentially) a healthy roster and the addition of the No. 2 overall pick.
That's not how the folks at DraftKings Sportsbook see it. Instead, they currently have the Hornets with the 29th-best odds to win the NBA title at +40000, meaning Charlotte is projected to be one of the worst teams in the league. The only team with longer odds is the Detroit Pistons at +50000.
I, for one, would be shocked if the Hornets wound up in the lottery once again next spring. It seems inevitable that Charlotte will re-sign Miles Bridges and we do know they would like to bring back P.J. Washington as well. There's no way that those two plus LaMelo Ball, Terry Rozier, Gordon Hayward, Mark Williams, and the No. 2 overall pick in the draft get stuck in the lottery again. They should be a playoff team, given they remain healthy.
"I made it clear to the players that next year playoffs are our goal," GM Mitch Kupchak said earlier this offseason. "I feel great. I do want to see this through. I don't know if I'll be sitting here ten years from now. But I'd like to be sitting here a year from now, two years from now, three years from now watching this team that our staff has put together perform. I think it's realistic that next year be a playoff [year]. And yeah, I'd like to watch these young guys come around. I would."
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