Steve Clifford entered this year with high hopes as the head coach of the Charlotte Hornets. Set with some new faces including the “superstar” Lance Stephenson, he had all the right pieces to make a run at the shabby Eastern Conference. Fast forward several months, and the team is sitting out of the playoffs, wondering what comes next. And for Clifford, he’s wondering what he did wrong, and what he will need to do in the future.
Shortly after the Oklahoma City Thunder fired their head coach Scott Brooks, many Hornets fans took to Twitter to express that they felt the team should do the same with their coach, and go after the freshly available Brooks to lead their team.