If you’re planning to sit down for the Charlotte Hornets’ first post-season game in five years with Eric Collins and Dell Curry, well...
Guess again.
Friday night the NBA announced specifics for next week’s play-in tournament. We now know the Hornets will play Tuesday, regardless of which seeding they have in the Eastern Conference play-in. We also know there will be no local-origination telecast of Charlotte’s game.
The NBA announcement said play-in games are exclusively on national outlets ESPN or TNT, with none of the local regional sports networks participating.
So the Bally Sports Southeast team of Collins, Curry and pre- and post-game host Ashley ShahAhmadi won’t call next week’s game, or games if the Hornets play two in the four-night play-in format.