Charlotte Hornets guards Terry Rozier and LaMelo Ball along with forward Gordon Hayward both made Sports Illustrated’s newest list of their top 100 NBA players for the upcoming NBA season. Here are the following rankings by the SI staff: Hayward (No. 45), Ball (No. 51), and Rozier (No. 78). Ball was only one spot of cracking the top 50 after only one season and Rozier made a jump from unranked to #78 in this newest edition of SI’s rankings.
Charlotte Hornets: 3 players ranked in SI’s top-100 players
In this article, I will break down the position of each of these players for their specific ranking and see the surrounding players near them in rank as well and how they stack up with those perspective players.