Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I dig deep into every NBA team's forthcoming off season and all of the big decisions that they have to make over the course of the summer.

But before we get into the Charlotte Hornets, who is today's subject, I guess that would be,

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to get through your work day. Okay, Bryce, it's time to dig in. Let's talk about the Charlotte

Hornets where there's like a big overarching kind of existential question that I have a little bit

for their organizational direction. But mostly I feel like this is going to be a podcast where

we talk about, okay, like is Mark Williams a long term piece here? And then we'll talk a lot of

draft stuff I feel like here as well. Ultimately, I think the existential question that I want to dive into just a little bit at the top

is just this is a new-ish front office, you know, Jeff Peterson and this new ownership group

have been in, I don't know, what do you want to call it?

I guess it's two years now, but like, you know, really just got there prior to the 20, 23 NBA draft

with the new ownership group. I don't even remember if Peterson was there for that initial.

I think, in fact, I think he wasn't. I think that that was like a Mitch Cupcheck, Michael Jordan

decision to take Brandon Miller. if I remember the reporting correctly.

Don't quote me on that.

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