A lot of things had to go well for the Hornets to remain somewhat relevant to the Eastern Conference playoff picture, and luck was simply not on their side whatsoever all season. I mean, hey, Tony Delk did it so why not?Ĭharlotte went just 33-49 in the 2014-15 season, winning 10 less games than the year before and falling five games short of a chance to compete in the postseason. Williams' best moment of the season came before the move to Charlotte, however, as he absolutely came out of nowhere to light the Pacers up for a 52-point performance as a member of the Timberwolves on January 13.

Suiting up for 27 games for the Hornets, Williams put up 17.2 points and six assists per game as he proved that he still has some good basketball left in the tank. Perhaps the biggest spark of Charlotte's season came in February when the Hornets acquired veteran guard Mo Williams just before the league's trade deadline, and the 32-year-old performed in vintage form to close out the season with his new team. Team centerpiece Al Jefferson missed 17 games with a groin injury, Kemba Walker missed 20 games as he was sidelined with a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist appeared in just 55 games all season due to foot and ankle issues and lottery pick Noah Vonleh was only active for 25 games as he began his NBA career recovering from a sports hernia. Not only was the Stephenson move a bad fit, but Gerald Henderson, Brian Roberts and Marvin Williams were the only three players on the roster to appear in 70 or more games. Stephenson was looking like a budding All-Star the year prior with Indiana, but only held on to his starting job for 25 games in his first and only season with Charlotte, where he shot 37.6% from the field and produced just eight points, four rebounds and four assists per game. In fact, the Stephenson experiment was miserable for all involved as he had a difficult time seeing eye to eye with head coach Steve Clifford while he simply didn't fit very well on a team with no shooting around him and Kemba Walker as a ball-dominant guard. Needless to say, that didn't work out so well. The franchise was just coming off of a playoff berth as the Bobcats in 2013-14, their first postseason appearance in four years, and the school of thought was that the young squad would continue to progress and be even more dangerous with Lance Stephenson in the mix. To put it lightly, the 2014-15 season did not quite go as well as the Hornets planned in their first season branded as the 'Charlotte Hornets' since 2001-02.

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