NBA Season Preview: Charlotte Hornets | LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller & Fantasy Basketball Impact

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s the Charlotte Hornets season preview you need before draft day. Josh Lloyd is joined by Walker Mehl from Locked On Hornets to break down LaMelo Ball’s make-or-break season, Brandon Miller’s expanded role, and the Hornets’ unsettled center rotation featuring Moussa Diabate, Mason Plumlee, and Ryan Kalkbrenner.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the Charlotte Hornets.
0:04.3	Let's talk about their upcoming season.
0:06.4	What is the buzz around this team?
0:09.1	Michael Bolton, please.
0:10.4	I'm so sorry.
0:11.3	Thanks, Josh.
0:12.5	It's Michael Bolton here,
0:13.8	and it's time for another episode
0:15.5	of the Locked-on Fantasy Basketball podcast.
0:19.2	Let's get to it.
0:20.4	Let's get to it. Let's get to it.
0:21.0	Indeed.
0:23.2	You are Locked on Fantasy.
0:25.5	Your daily NBA Fantasy podcast.
0:28.4	Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:34.8	Hello and welcome to the Locked on Fantasy Basketball basketball podcast brought to you by Basketball Monster.
0:40.3	My name is Josh Lloyd and family, religion and friendship are the three demons that you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
0:48.6	I'm also the lead fantasy analyst at basketball monster.com and today's episode is brought to you by GameTime.
0:53.7	Download the GameTime app, create an account and use the the code Lockdown NBA for $20 off your first purchase. Thank you also for making Lockdown Fantasy Basketball your first listen every day. We are free. We're available on all platforms. We're talking Charlotte Hornets. We're talking about the Hornets today. And in the next day or two, we're going to be talking about the Boston Celtics. So we're going to see which team is going to battle for the worst rotation of centers in the entirety of the NBA. That'll be an absolutely fascinating discussion. So let's just get in and start talking Hornets now. So for the Hornets, that's what we're doing. We're talking to the man with the golden tonsils. It is the host of
1:27.6	the Locked on Hornets podcast. Walker is here with me once again. Walker, welcome back to the show.
1:33.6	I like that you mixed it up a little bit. Nobody ever says golden tonsils. Usually people say
1:39.0	the golden pipes. Thank you for one, which that was, I just realized how pat on the back that was. I didn't mean to do that. I just, it's a switch up of a compliment. I appreciate it. It's refreshing. Now, it's, hey, you know what? I don't, I don't take that as you like, you're saying, oh, look at me. Everyone's telling me how good my voice is. It's all about the golden tonsils, golden tonsils, yeah. Yeah, maybe you can get that. You can get a couple of different little monikas.
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