The Charlotte Hornets’ fan base was clamoring – appropriately so – for change.
This trade represents change and riskily so. The Hornets gave up on big men Roy Hibbert and Spencer Hawes, shipping them to the Milwaukee Bucks Thursday in exchange for little-used center Miles Plumlee.
This is a transparent salary dump by the Bucks, moving the majority of the four-year, $50 million contract Plumlee signed last summer. After this season, the Hornets will still owe him $12.4 million each of the next three seasons.
Miles Plumlee is being paid comparably to Hornets point guard Kemba Walker, a first-time All-Star next month.