The NBA is and always will be a superstar-driven league. It's downright impossible to win if your main guy isn't up to the task of leading the team to a title. With that line of thinking in mind, the Charlotte Hornets find themselves in a strange predicament heading into the 2015 offseason.
Eleven years into the career of Al Jefferson, we know he is a great player but not a guy you can rely upon to get you to the promised land. The perennial 20-10 threat has been one of the most consistent big men in the league for a decade, but we just saw exactly what happens when you shape your whole game plan around an aging 30-year-old center who can't play defense: You wind up 33-49.