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Rod Boone: Final: #Hornets 136, Heat 106 LaMelo 30 pts, 13 asts, 6 rebs Kon Knueppel 22 pts, 2 rebs, 2 asts Coby White 22 pts, 3 rebs, 2 asts Brandon Miller 16 pts, 2 rebs, 2 asts Up next: vs. Orlando on Thursday (Dell Curry jersey retirement)
Coby White tossed in 10 points and had four assists and three rebounds in 15 minutes off the bench. His presence was immediately felt when he checked in for LaMelo Ball midway through the first quarter after the star guard picked up his second foul. The duo even found themselves in the backcourt together later on, a clear sign he’s going to slide into the Hornets’ rotation rather seamlessly. “To me, I felt like I fit right in, it being my first time,” White said. “I fit right in to what they are trying to do. Obviously, some wrinkles here and there in terms of play calling. I messed up two plays there, so I’ve got to get better there. “But, yeah, it was fun for me. Game one for me, I was just trying to impact the game any way that I can not knowing how it would go and just tying to feel it out.”
Hornets PR: NJURY UPDATE: Ryan Kalkbrenner and Coby White have both been upgraded to available for tonight’s @hornets game at CHI
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Joel Lorenzi: Coby White on his year-long calf issues and playing 30 mins in his last Bulls game before MRI with Hornets revealed a strain “Everybody can have their opinions, but I feel like the medical staff always had my best interest (in Chicago). If I would’ve never got traded, I probably would’ve never said anything about it, just because I thought it was just tightness. I didn’t know, they (the Bulls) didn’t know, that it was a calf strain. It was nobody’s fault. It was never hindering me from playing. Not like I felt it in my right one, my right one I knew I strained.”
Joel Lorenzi: Coby White says he sensed he’d be traded after Vooch and Huerter were traded. “You can kinda read between the lines.” Said he and the Bulls discussed a future together at some point this year, but “things change. The way the season was going, we weren’t stacking enough wins consistently.”
Fresh off a plane and finally inside the Toyota Center with a new cast of characters, Coby White stood on the baseline while the activity buzzed around him. A whirlwind was semi-complete and White couldn’t have been more thrilled. “As soon as I touched down, I felt wanted,” White told The Charlotte Observer in a quiet moment before the Charlotte Hornets took on the Houston Rockets on Thursday night. “I called my family, and I’m like, ‘Everybody here is just super-welcoming and super-nice. And they keep talking about long term, long term, long term.’ And just hearing that somewhere where you’re valued for a long term, especially being back home, it means a lot.”
Fred Katz: The Bulls and Hornets amended the Coby White trade after a physical showed White had a left calf injury and would have to miss time, league sources tell @TheAthleticNBA . Hornets are now sending two second-rounders (2031 NYK, 2031 DEN) to Chicago instead of three.
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Charlotte Hornets: Coby White checkin' in ✔️ @CobyWhite | #HiveMentality
Julia Poe: Really special to see Coby White head home to North Carolina, a place that means so much to his family. I’ll always cherish the time spent working with Coby on this feature about his path to finding himself after his father’s death. Family man, above all else. Hornets got a good one.
Yossi Gozlan: The Hornets still have 11 second-round picks remaining after getting Coby White. They also still have one of the biggest first-round pick surpluses with 11 over the next seven drafts.
