Coby White is having a lot of fun playing for the Charlotte Hornets.
The Charlotte Hornets are 9-3 with Coby White in the lineup and 38-34 overall on the season.
Charlotte has been one of the hottest teams in the NBA over the past few months, and after the Hornets blew out the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday, White spoke about how dangerous the team is.
"I've never been on a team this dangerous," White said. "It can be a back-and-forth game and then you hit one run and you look up and you're up 20 and then you're up 30. ... I think we're starting to hold those leads when you do get them and continue to build upon."
The Hornets acquired White from the Chicago Bulls and the UNC product has been a great fit in Buzz City. He's averaging 15.9 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game while shooting 45.9% from the field, 40.3% from 3 and 85.1% from the foul line.
With the regular season coming to an end and the Hornets in position to make the NBA play-in tournament, Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report has a White question for Charlotte: "How do we maximize Coby White?"
"When this season's trade deadline arrived, the Hornets were far enough into their 2026 takeoff to justify some aggressiveness from the front office," Buckley wrote. "And those decision-makers responded with multiple moves, none more important than the one bringing White back to his home state.
"As an ignitable scorer, open-court attacker and secondary playmaker, White has a number of roles he could fill for the Hornets. It's just that a lot of those roles are already handled by others. This offense was awesome even before he was added to it, so there's some onus on him to find ways to fit.
"That said, it's also on Charlotte to get him into the right role and comfortable with it as quickly as possible. He could play a sneaky-important role in the Hornets' hopes of escaping the Eastern Conference, but only if they figure out how to maximize his impact without disrupting any of the offensive firepower that preceded him in Charlotte."
White, 26, becomes an unrestricted free agent this offseason. He holds career averages of 15.4 points per game with the Bulls and Hornets.
Charlotte is currently the ninth seed in the East. The ninth seed needs to win two play-in games to make the playoffs.
The Hornets haven't made the playoffs since 2016. It would be a great story to see Charlotte in the postseason in Year 2 of the Charles Lee era.
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