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Your Charlotte Hornets question: Why isn’t city more of an NBA free-agent destination?

Searching through significant free-agent signings by the Charlotte Hornets, you have center Al Jefferson and...what?

Jefferson signed with the Hornets (then-Bobcats) in 2013, played three seasons here and made an appearance on the All-NBA team. Nothing else of great consequence has happened in free agency since the NBA returned to Charlotte in 2004.

Then-general manager Rich Cho signed Gordon Hayward to an offer sheet in the summer of 2014. Predictably, the Utah Jazz matched on restricted free agent Hayward and the Hornets ended up with Lance Stephenson, who was such a bad fit the Hornets dealt him to the Los Angeles Clippers after one season.