{"id":800233,"date":"2026-07-31T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/800233\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:57:24","slug":"hornets-had-draft-day-trade-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/800233\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets had draft day trade rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 30, 2026, 10:45 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte Hornets reportedly attempted to trade up in the 2026 NBA Draft.Charlotte offered the No. 14 pick and a future selection for Golden State&#8217;s No. 11 pick.The Hornets ultimately kept their original picks, selecting Hannes Steinbach and Christian Anderson Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a data-autotag=\"e256e96c-b58f-4300-a36c-9b2c6d336797\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> were rumored to be interested in trading up near the 2026 NBA Draft, holding both the No. 14 and No. 18 overall selections. According to ESPN&#8217;s Anthony Slater, Charlotte did try and make a move near the top-10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Slater <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fnba%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F49473905%2Fwarriors-running-back-steph-curry-era-enters-another-crossroads&amp;xcust=SC1-SROK&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Ftherookiewire.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Frookie%2F2026%2F07%2F30%2Fhornets-had-draft-day-trade-rejected%2F91105961007%2F\" data-v-afl=\"\" data-t-l=\"\u2691f:b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Thursday that the Hornets offered both the No. 14 overall pick and a future selection to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for the No. 11 overall pick. While it was never revealed who the Hornets could have been targeting at No. 11 had the deal been finalized, their need for frontcourt help could have led them to select one of two <a data-autotag=\"7486d128-75f4-45be-b2b5-4b606695e640\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/college-sports\/big-ten\/michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Michigan Wolverines<\/a>, Yaxel Lendeborg who was selected No. 11 overall, or Aday Mara who went to the <a data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> one pick later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Either way, they ended up keeping both of their first-round selections, who turned out to be Hannes Steinbach and Christian Anderson Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 30, 2026, 10:45 a.m. ET The Charlotte Hornets reportedly attempted to trade up in the 2026 NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[72400,7,684,473,3878,685,6,90348,72761,72762,72404,72457,72580,72934,73765,72468,72860,73717,73718,72570,72484,72445,72406,72558,72403],"class_list":["post-800233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-sourcerookie-wire","tag-sstssportsnbarookie","tag-sstsnrookie","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-mens-basketball","tag-tagcalifornia-gold-rush","tag-tagcgr-sports","tag-tagcharlotte-hornets","tag-tagespn-inc","tag-tagmichigan-wolverines","tag-tagmichigan-wolverines-mens-basketball","tag-tagnba-draft","tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}