After years leading the locker room for the Charlotte Hornets, our sweet prince Bismack Biyombo has made his departure from The Hive (at least for now). There are few NBA players better fit to fill the void of veteran leadership and locker room presence than Ish Smith, the vet point guard coming home to his native Charlotte to play for his league-record-tying 12th-career NBA team.
As NBA fans, we often talk about “role definition” and how that factors into a player’s ability to succeed and fulfill their potential on a given team within the role they’ve been assigned.