{"id":331,"date":"2021-08-01T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/?p=331"},"modified":"2021-08-01T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:18:00","slug":"hornets-look-to-be-moving-away-from-malik-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/2021\/08\/01\/hornets-look-to-be-moving-away-from-malik-monk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets look to be moving away from Malik Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets decline to offer guard Malik Monk a qualifying offer on Sunday, making the fourth-year guard an unrestricted free agent.  The move, along with moves during the draft, suggests that the team is moving away from the former lottery pick.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets, needing a shooting guard and scoring, selected Monk 11th overall in the 2017 NBA draft, passing over eventual all-stars Donovan Mitchell and Bam Adebayo.<\/p>\n<p>Monk, who has been improving every season, is just another name in a long list of bad lottery picks by the franchise dating back almost 2 decades.  The Hornets, or Bobcats at one point, have been a frequent participant in the NBA draft lottery and have a plethora of top 15 draft picks, but have yet to find a franchise player.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being a top 15 pick, Monk has not been able to find his way into the Hornets starting lineup and has started just 1 game in his career. of the 2017 first-round draft picks, only Tyler Lydon and An<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Hornets decline to offer guard Malik Monk a qualifying offer on Sunday, making the fourth-year guard an unrestricted free agent. The move, along with moves during the draft, suggests that the team is moving away from the former lottery pick. The Hornets, needing a shooting guard and scoring, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/2021\/08\/01\/hornets-look-to-be-moving-away-from-malik-monk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hornets look to be moving away from Malik Monk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hornets","category-news","category-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyhoops.net\/blog3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}