Speaker 1: So on. TikTok, a fan of the heat Check, sent
Speaker 1: me a message with the following question, why aren't we
Speaker 1: talking about the Charlotte Hornets as a dysfunctional team. That's
Speaker 1: a good question, you know what, I guess because they're
Speaker 1: not relevant in any way from a contending standpoint. But
Speaker 1: still in terms of dysfunction function, what's your function? It's
Speaker 1: right up there? How come where's Miles Bridges? Does anyone
Speaker 1: know what his timeline is? Is there a timeline? Is
Speaker 1: there a timeline with the Hornets and Miles Bridges? Am
Speaker 1: I out of the loop because I feel like I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on there? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Is he he was supposed to get the max contract.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've rescinded his offer. Who knows, But listen,
Speaker 1: when you've got your centerpiece outside of Lamello ball, your
Speaker 1: other centerpiece star going down for domestic violence against all
Speaker 1: kinds of folks, that's strike one. That's absolutely chaos. That
Speaker 1: was one of the things that was talked about most
Speaker 1: a summer league is like, what's gonna happen with Miles Bridges?
Speaker 1: Like what's Charlotte gonna do? And up until a few
Speaker 1: days ago, there was pretty much no news about him.
Speaker 1: Right now we learn that his domestic violence case has
Speaker 1: been pushed back from September twenty ninth to October seventh.
Speaker 1: That is the third time, folks, that has been postponed. Presumably,
Speaker 1: nothing's going to happen concerning his future until all of
Speaker 1: this is finalized. But I tell you what, it's a
Speaker 1: big time storm cloud over a franchise. We know that
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated reported the Bridge's status to possibly rejoin the
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets before the start of the season, very much
Speaker 1: in doubt, obviously, like yeah, okay, captain obvious, there you are.
Speaker 1: Great reporting, and as his whole career in the NBA
Speaker 1: as a whole, I mean, did you see the photos?
Speaker 1: Fucking obviously the kind of risk that you face when
Speaker 1: you're not facing one but three felony counts, including two
Speaker 1: felony child abuse charges. So that's just one thing facing
Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets. The best thing I think about all
Speaker 1: of the issues in drama and chaos surrounding these NBA
Speaker 1: teams is they all have their own brand of fucked up.
Speaker 1: Like there's not like an overarching theme this year each one.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just kind of like dealer's choice. We've
Speaker 1: got we've got isms, we've got abuse, we've got sexual misconduct,
Speaker 1: we have vulgar language like Adam Levine sexting. I imagine
Speaker 1: that's gotta be one reason why no one's talking about
Speaker 1: the Hornets very much. Horn it's also other questions that
Speaker 1: they have to deal with. First, do we have clarity
Speaker 1: on why Kenny Atkinson decided to say no to the
Speaker 1: deal was in writing, the ink was drying, and he
Speaker 1: decided last minute to pull a switch THROO does anyone
Speaker 1: know why? Truthfully? Like what really happened? Because I liked it?
Speaker 1: Know he chose to remain an assistant rather than take
Speaker 1: a head coaching job. Who does that? As Brian Windhorst
Speaker 1: would say, why would he do that? Very weird? What
Speaker 1: did he see? What came out? Maybe it was Miles Bridges,
Speaker 1: who knows. I need clarification. It's very very rare that
Speaker 1: an NBA franchise is left at the altar by a
Speaker 1: potential head coach. Another question looming, where is Gordon Hayward.
Speaker 1: What's happening with him? He was this huge part of
Speaker 1: the off season rumor mill and just nothing. He was
Speaker 1: supposed to go to Brooklyn, maybe maybe Utah for picks,
Speaker 1: apparently staying put in Charlotte and Yward. He's a good player,
Speaker 1: always injured, and which is why being ruled out for
Speaker 1: the first preseason game is hardly surprising, but also problematic.
Speaker 1: Knee injury again acting up and if you're a Hornets fan,
Speaker 1: for the amount of money that they've paid him, that's
Speaker 1: got to be concerning coming out of the late offseason,
Speaker 1: when you're supposed to be at your healthiest. The fact
Speaker 1: that you're getting a late scratch coming off of a
Speaker 1: glorified scrimmage. I would put that in the category of
Speaker 1: rout row third. At one point, I didn't even remember
Speaker 1: who the head coach of the Hornets is at this
Speaker 1: very moment, think to yourself, do not google this. Who's
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Charlotte Hornets right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who is he? Venture? Guests? Is he young? Is he old?
Speaker 1: Has he ever coached before? These are all questions that
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember. It's Steve Clifford. Steve Clifford. If you're
Speaker 1: saying to yourself, wait, didn't he already coach the Charlotte Hornets,
Speaker 1: Yes he did, Folks, he also coached the Orlando Magic.
Speaker 1: He's partying like his twenty sixteen all over again, second
Speaker 1: time around for good old cliff who probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been the fall guy for the Orlando Magic because truthfully,
Speaker 1: as bad as he is and was, he still figured
Speaker 1: out a way to make Vussovich look serviceable enough where
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bulls paid four first round picks for him,
Speaker 1: so he was doing something right. He didn't make him
Speaker 1: look like as much of a defensive liability as he
Speaker 1: is in Chicago. They gutted the Magic like the fishing
Speaker 1: tournament director on TikTok who sliced open those fish only
Speaker 1: to find lead weights in their bellies. Like it was
Speaker 1: like that, right Clifford coached. In case you want a
Speaker 1: little history of lesson, he coached the Hornets from twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen to twenty and eighteen. He knows Mike, he knows
Speaker 1: this organization that at that point was his very first
Speaker 1: head coaching job, and yet still he chose to come
Speaker 1: back after being fired. Isn't this kind of like being
Speaker 1: dumped by your high school girlfriend who leaves you for
Speaker 1: another guy, and then then she dumps him just for
Speaker 1: the chance to date Kenny Atkinson. And then when Kenny
Speaker 1: Atkinson bolts, she comes back and he's like, it's always
Speaker 1: been me and you, you know, like, hey, baby, whatch
Speaker 1: you doing wid on the late night tip? It's ever.
Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking about all those good times that
Speaker 1: me and you had back in Chuck's Notes twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: what Steve Clifford came home to Charlotte? What does it mean?
Speaker 1: Probably a lot of lamellow ball, probably not much Gordon Hayward.
Speaker 1: Probably a lot of Kelly Oubray chucking. But honestly, that
Speaker 1: could have been any coach except for Kenny Atkinson. He
Speaker 1: would have not let that stand. No shot. Jalen Duran.
Speaker 1: Jalen Duran, No Aylan Duran's a Detroit piston. Mark Williams
Speaker 1: looking around thinking, what have we gotten ourselves into? The
Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets, folks, You're right, they should be in the
Speaker 1: bucket of most dysfunctional organizations. I am sorry I didn't
Speaker 1: bring them up. They don't exactly come top of mind.