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The 1989–90 NBA season was the Charlotte Hornets' second season in the National Basketball Association. [1] In the 1989 NBA draft, the Hornets selected J.R. Reid from the University of North Carolina with the fifth overall pick.
Season Team League Conference Finish Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB [a] Playoffs Awards Head Coach; Charlotte Hornets: 1988–89: 1988–89: NBA: Eastern: 12th Atlantic: 6th 20 62 .244 43 Dick Harter: 1989–90: 1989–90: NBA Western: 14th Midwest: 7th 19 63 .232 44 Dick Harter Gene Littles: 1990–91: 1990–91: NBA Eastern 12th Central ...
The Hornets played their first season in the Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division. [42] The team's first regular season NBA game took place on November 4, 1988, at the Charlotte Coliseum, and was a 133–93 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. [43] Despite the huge loss, the Hornets received a standing ovation at the end of the game.
Scheer left prior to the 1989–90 season. [29] Despite initial concerns that the Coliseum was too big, the Hornets were a runaway hit, leading the NBA in attendance, a feat they would achieve seven more times in Charlotte. Eventually, the Hornets would sell out 364 consecutive games. [30] The Hornets' second season was a struggle from start to ...
Charlotte ended its season with a win over Cleveland, giving the Hornets a 21-61 record that extended the NBA’s longest playoff drought to eight years.
The first pick in the Hornets' history was Rex Chapman, a shooting guard from the University of Kentucky. [7] The Hornets had three top-four picks and all of them have participated in the NBA All-Star Game: Larry Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, and Baron Davis. [8] [9] In 1996, the Hornets drafted Kobe Bryant 13th overall, but traded him for Vlade Divac.
Gordon Hayward scored 27 points, LaMelo Ball added 25 and the Charlotte Hornets shook off their 3-point shooting struggles just in time to earn a 124-117 victory over the Washington Wizards on ...
The Hugo moniker was selected from a pool of more than 6,000 fan suggestions, and was inaugurated as part of the Charlotte Hornets' first season. [1] In the aftermath of the damage resulting from Hurricane Hugo in September 1989, the Hornets announced that the Hugo moniker would remain, and the mascot's name would not be changed to Hoser or Hank.