Terry Rozier deserved better, and on Monday he got it.
A Charlotte Hornets stalwart since 2019, for a future first-round draft pick, some salary-cap room and veteran guard Kyle Lowry.
The first two things are very important to the Hornets. Lowry is not — I’ll be very surprised if he plays a single game for Charlotte before some other deal sends him elsewhere or a buyout is arranged.
But while trade winners are hard to immediately diagnose — especially one where the key ingredient, that first-round pick, comes up in 2027 at the earliest — there’s one clear victor here.