I don’t totally hate the Charlotte Hornets’ 2022 NBA draft, because to do so would be selling short former Duke center Mark Williams. If the Hornets were actually going to make a pick at number 13 or 15 Thursday night — although I’d hoped they’d trade both of them away for a veteran big man — then Williams was the correct choice.
But no one in their right mind could love the Hornets’ 2022 NBA draft, either. They made one of their two first-round picks disappear — the one that was actually inside the lottery at No. 13.