On the day of the draft, Shams Charania of The Athletic reported that the Charlotte Hornets have been nonetheless contemplating drafting Scoot Henderson regardless of for weeks being linked with Brandon Miller. The Hornets introduced in each gamers on Monday of that week for follow-up conferences and exercises.
“Can I say one factor in regards to the Scoot, Brandon stuff?” stated Jake Fischer on the Basketball Illuminati Podcast. “There positively was phrase Thursday morning. I bought a textual content from Houston. And Portland had been checking in with me all through the draft about what Charlotte was attempting to do right here. There was positively a late rumbling, as an instance, despatched from Charlotte out to different actors within the NBA world. Like ‘We’re nonetheless contemplating Scoot right here.’
“I do assume that was a final ditch effort to attempt to get Portland to commerce up from three to 2 to take Scoot. I believe that is the place all this got here from. I do not assume this was accomplished [with] betting markets, conspiracy, blah, blah, blah. I believe the Hornets tried to get a bit savvy… And as I tweeted out, as I wrote in my e book, Mitch Kupchak again in 2015, when he was GM of the Lakers, had the No. 2 choose. D’Angelo Russell and Jahlil Okafor have been there two prime selections. They usually refused to inform two fairly highly effective brokers, Aaron Mintz at CAA for D’Angelo Russell, and Invoice Duffy now at WME for Jahlil Okafor, they only refused to inform both aspect what they have been going to do.
“I imagine the Hornets didn’t inform Brandon Miller or Scoot till proper on the clock that they have been going both route to proceed that misdirection, thriller or no matter you name. I believe it was a concerted effort by the Hornets to drum up some commerce curiosity there.”
