With two of the first four picks in the second round, landing a projected first-round talent that slipped seems a likely probability for the Charlotte Hornets. The end of the first round is extremely tough to predict,

Zachary Weinberger is a credentialed Miami Heat reporter and an Associate Editor covering the NBA at-large, NCAA Football, and NCAA Basketball for ClutchPoints. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2022, covering sports at the FAU University Press and later at The Palm Beach Post.

Knueppel was projected to go to the Houston Rockets with the No. 10 pick in Jonathan Wasserman's latest mock draft for Bleacher Report. He averaged 14.4 points on 47.9 percent shooting from the field and 40.6 shooting from deep through 39 starts of his lone college season.