{"id":846278,"date":"2026-09-29T01:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/846278\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:27:55","slug":"report-charlotte-hornets-waiving-recently-acquired-guard-rob-dillingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/846278\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Charlotte Hornets waiving recently acquired guard Rob Dillingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/charlotte-hornets\/5312\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Hornets<\/a> are waiving former No. 8 pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/rob-dillingham-1017144\/1429354\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/rob-dillingham-1017144\/1429354\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Dillingham<\/a>, sources told ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The news comes just one day after the Hornets acquired Dillingham from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/chicago-bulls\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/chicago-bulls\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/buddy-hield\/697086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/buddy-hield\/697086\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Hield<\/a> and cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dillingham, 21, will be looking to join his third team in two years after he was traded from Minnesota to Chicago midway through last season and then again from Chicago to Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Hornets created a $9.6 million trade exception with the deal as well as got Hield\u2019s multiyear contract off their books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a rocky road for Dillingham since the Timberwolves traded two future first round picks to move up in the 2024 draft and select the Kentucky product with the No. 8 pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2 point guard struggled to break into Chris Finch\u2019s regular rotation with the Timberwolves and never eclipsed 15 minutes per game for the team in two-plus years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dillingham appeared in 30 games for the Bulls and averaged 9.6 points and 2.8 assists while shooting 42.8% from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets are waiving former No. 8 pick Rob Dillingham, sources told ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,57842,3878,685,6,99976],"class_list":["post-846278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlotte-hornets-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5312","tag-charlottehornets","tag-hornets","tag-nba","tag-rob-dillingham-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1429354"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117351737137231939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846278","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=846278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}