Ish Smith circled the NBA world before coming back home, playing for 40% of the teams in the league. So his sense of perspective about these Charlotte Hornets is something worth listening to.
“We’re so young,” Smith said, “that we don’t even know how good we really are.”
Smith himself doesn’t fit into that “young” category. The former star point guard at Concord’s Central Cabarrus, and then at Wake Forest, is 33 years old and playing for his 12th NBA team. Smith puts the word “journey” in journeyman.