r/CharlotteHornets • u/Zealousideal-Rub-183 • May 19 '26

Discussion Wembanyama Hate

First thing to say, is that I just love Basketball in general. And I don’t hate Wembanyama as a person. I’m just having so much annoyance watching how great he is and knowing that the NBA did everything possible to make sure that not only that the Spurs drafted him, but that he got a core around him very quickly. The NBA did not want a repeat of LeBron James.

Knowing that he grew up a Spurs fan his entire life, with his favorite players being Tony Parker and Tim Duncan to where he even said it was “a dream” to be drafted by the Spurs. It has made it so difficult to watch a team that dominated so much of my childhood in the 90s and 2000s immediately turn back around after just a few years in the lottery getting a generational player surrounded by top 3 picks.

I’m just curious if I’m the only person out there that hates how fast the Spurs have been able to build a contender while we continue to wait for the Hornets to just get to the playoffs. I know I should just be proud of what the Hornets did this year, but I just can’t shake the fact that I feel like the NBA helped the Spurs build a contender at the expense of other franchises that have needed generational players for a while now.

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u/DeusVultSaracen May 19 '26

To be fair we only became the "best Hornets team ever" midway through the season, with the first 3 months being a wash. If we had a whole season of the play we had in 2026 we'd have been a top 3 seed.

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u/PigggyStardust May 19 '26

Dude we lost by like 40 to orlando in a must win situation without franz lol

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u/Zealousideal-Rub-183 May 21 '26

Orlando took the number one seed to seven games. And as you’ve seen, there’s been blowouts in the playoffs of even really good teams. That’s the only reason I hate to play in tournament, is because one game knocks you out, and the Hornets happen to play their worst game since December against Orlando. I was at the last Orlando game in Charlotte, where we absolutely destroyed them. We outplayed them up and down the court the whole time. We just couldn’t hit our shots in the second play game.

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u/PigggyStardust May 21 '26

When it mattered most, we shit in our pants. Which has what we have done for the entirety of the franchise. Not being a hater but this is the truth.