ESPN’s BPI reveals intriguing Charlotte Hornets projection for 2024-25 season

ESPN has revealed its NBA Basketball Power Index (BPI) for the 2024-25 NBA season. According to the site, BPI is meant to “be the best predictor of a team’s performance for the rest of the season.”

According to the rankings for the upcoming season, the Hornets are -2.4 points compared to the average expected team in the NBA, good for the 23rd best mark in the league. The -2.4 points are made up of -1.3 points in the offensive end, and -1.1 points in the defensive end.

The projections also have the Hornets at the 22nd best projection in the league with a 37.0-45.0 record heading into next season, leapfrogging the Hawks who are ranked higher in BPI.

The numbers are a marked improvement from where the Hornets finished last season, where -4.7 points on offense and -2.9 points on defense totaled -7.6 points against average of the NBA team, the third worst mark in the league. .

While the Hornets finished ahead of the Washington Wizards and Detroit Pistons last season in the metric, projections for the new season also placed the Hornets ahead of San Antonio, Brooklyn, Utah, Toronto and Portland.

All four teams directly ahead of Charlotte in the projections (Atlanta, Chicago, Orlando and New York) at least made the play-in games in the Eastern Conference last season, meaning the Hornets could be in the mix of this type of success. . The Knicks even won a playoff series last season as a top two seed, which is solid company for the new-look Hornets under first-year coach Charles Lee.

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