The awkward unraveling of an NBA trade deadline deal gone wrong gets a little more awkward Wednesday night.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Charlotte Hornets meet at Crypto.com Arena (10 p.m. ET) in the NBA's first regular-season game after the All-Star break. It's a rescheduled matchup after their original game in Los Angeles was postponed due to the wildfires in Southern California last month. But that delay means it will now be less than two weeks since the two teams appeared to complete a trade with one another only for it to fall apart two days after it seemed to be done.