Charlotte • As a former second-round pick who spent as much time with the G League’s Greensboro Swarm last year as he did with the Hornets as a rookie, the success this season of now-second-year guard Devonte’ Graham (19.1 points, 7.5 assists, 40.3% 3-point shooting on 9.1 attempts per game) has caught a lot of people off-guard.
As former prep teammates at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., Mitchell said he saw enough of Graham to know he was something special.
“This doesn’t surprise me. He’s been doing this his whole [basketball-playing] career,” Mitchell said before Saturday’s game at the Spectrum Center.