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Team

Charlotte Hornets

2025-26Current

Season snapshot

Middle tier regular season results · middle tier results younger core

CHO finished 44-38 (0.537) with 0 playoff game(s). Its governed core had 10 players and a rotation-weighted age of 24.0. The team had 2 critical/structural basketball problem(s), 0 future pick-control row(s), and 50.0% future core salary schedule coverage. This describes the planning position; it does not recommend a direction.

Record

44-38

Playoff games

Playoff wins

Core age

Primary creator

LaMelo Ball

Current decision lanes

Transactions, injuries, rumors and staff changes are separate evidence lanes — never merged.

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TransactionMouhamadou Gueyewaiver exitJul 30, 2026Completed

Roster exit after earlier trade movement. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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TransactionKylan Boswelltwo way signingJul 6, 2026Completed

Undrafted player signed to a two-way slot. Reconciled from a dated index row carrying a cited transaction source. | Identity resolved to a source-backed provisional person in nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825; stable external identifier remains a separate enrichment field. | Exact event and roster-action lineage promoted by nba_live_gap_closure_program_v1_20260825.

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Injuries & availability

Governed medical episodes — evidence about players, separate from team decisions.

Player	Injury	Body part	Out	Returned	Severity
Ryan Kalkbrenner	left elbow sprain	elbow	Dec 21, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025	not recorded	—
LaMelo Ball	right wrist soreness	wrist	Dec 18, 2025 → Dec 22, 2025	not recorded	—
Tidjane Salaun	left hip soreness	hip	Dec 13, 2025 → Dec 14, 2025

Last observed season rotation

Players with actual NBA minutes for the latest eligible season; not a complete current registration ledger.

Player	Role	Strongest functions	Minutes	On/Off	Stab. RAPM	Evidence
Kon Knueppel	—	—	2,588	—	—	metrics unavailable
Miles Bridges	—	—	2,438	—	—

On/Off and stabilized RAPM are separate impact lanes on a per-100 scale — never combined into one grade. A dash means evidence is unavailable, not zero.

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Basketball functions

Eleven separate function readings — need, coverage and redundancy stay apart; no team score.

CreationMonitor Not Priority

Middle Tier Distributed · led by LaMelo Ball, then LaMelo Ball

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CHO 2025-26 Creation: production percentile 29.2; largest contributor Kon Knueppel (27.2% of above-replacement production); monitor_not_priority.

Defensive event creationCritical need with weak depth

Functional Shortage · led by LaMelo Ball, then Brandon Miller

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Shot creation

Team performance and shot-creation architecture.

CHO ranked 14 of 30 in self-created shot share (47.5%), 23 of 30 in self-created eFG, and 3 of 30 in assisted eFG. Primary creator: LaMelo Ball. Team-level creator attribution: 88.4%. Creation profile: balanced creation mix; dependency: distributed creation; shotmaking: high end advantage conversion.

Self-created FGA share

47.5%

Self-created eFG

48.3%

Assisted eFG

61.5%

LaMelo Ball share

24.2%

Contracts & cap

Selected player charges under the serving definition — not full cap legality.

SupportedOver Cap Below Tax Threshold With Exception Ledger Withheld

Selected player charges

$186.8M

Share of cap

121%

Tax line

$1.14M under

First apron

$9.19M under

Second apron

$21.1M under

CHO 2025-26 carried $186,757,652 of selected player charges (120.8% of the cap), placing it in over cap below tax on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was passing at 16.1% of the cap; highest measured need was event_creation. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.

Future core salary schedule

Upcoming decisions

Governed contract events ahead — dates carry their honest quality.

Tre Mannteam option decisionJun 29, 2027

Tre Mann has a reported team option for the 2028 season. Team controls the option. The stored date is the CBA outside date; the contract may require an earlier decision.

Grant Williamscontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Grant Williams has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Miles Bridgescontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Miles Bridges has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Josh Greencontract control horizonJun 30, 2027

Josh Green has a reported contract-control horizon through the 2027 season. The June 30 date is a season-boundary planning proxy, not proof of exact free-agency status. The player is inside the two-season extension-review horizon, but exact eligibility and value are not certified.

Future assets

Draft-control coverage: abstain no future pick control rows. Partial coverage renders as partial — never as a zero-asset team.

No accepted future asset-control rows are governed for this team yet. Asset-control coverage is known to be partial league-wide — this is missing evidence, not an empty cupboard.

Organization

Basketball authority and staff context — descriptive, never a grade.

No governed authority-regime rows are knowable for this team at this as-of moment.

CoverageResolved

withheld: falseresolved team: true

Supporting relations (7)

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