The Charlotte Hornets are putting every major player on the trading block, including All-Star Kemba Walker, former Portland Trail Blazers forward Nicolas Batum, and former Blazers free-agent target Dwight Howard. Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN detailed the situation in an article this morning.
Overloaded with bad contracts and untradable assets, the Charlotte Hornets have made All-Star point guard Kemba Walker available in trade discussions, league sources told ESPN.
Presumed parallels to the Trail Blazers’ own situation will be of interest to Portland fans, along with this paragraph:
The Hornets had already made available Nicolas Batum (four years, $100 million), Dwight Howard (two years, $47 million), Marvin Williams (three years, $42 million) and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (three years, $39 million), league sources said, but those players and their contracts are largely unattractive in the marketplace.