If former Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak is truly a candidate to become the next Charlotte Hornets general manager, there has been no traction to date, he said Friday.
Kupchak, an All-American at North Carolina in the mid-1970s, was in Charlotte on Friday for the opening-round games of the NCAA tournament at Spectrum Center. He was in the stands for the Tar Heels’ 84-66 victory over Lipscomb.
Asked after the game if he has had any conversations with the Hornets, Kupchak said he had not.
“Nope. Nope,” he told the Observer. “Nothing. Nothing at all.