Bouncing back from a season plagued by injuries last year, many thought Michael Kidd-Gilchrist’s fifth year in the NBA could be his breakout one. After-all, in the lone seven games he played in 2015-16, Kidd-Gilchrist played some of his best basketball in a Charlotte Hornets uniform.
In those seven games, Kidd-Gilchrist hit over 54 percent of his shots, had two double-doubles and scored 20 points against the Chicago Bulls before falling and re-tearing his labrum in his right shoulder against the Indiana Pacers.
Fast forward to this past season and it’s hard to say Kidd-Gilchrist “broke-out.