Nicolas Batum, once prized by the Charlotte Hornets, said the team never gave him a heads-up he was being released last November.
“I found out on Twitter, like everybody else,” Batum said in response to a question from the Observer Friday.
A few days into NBA free-agency, the Hornets came to terms with free agent Gordon Hayward on a four-year, $120 million contract. In order to clear salary-cap space to add Hayward, the Hornets had to either trade the remaining $27 million on Batum’s contract or use the stretch provision to spread cap implications over three seasons.