{"id":119571,"date":"2026-05-01T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/coby-white-wants-to-stay-with-hornets-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:00:31","slug":"coby-white-wants-to-stay-with-hornets-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/coby-white-wants-to-stay-with-hornets-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Coby White wants to stay with Hornets &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chicagobulls\/status\/1908612885300781112\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls\/X<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coby White and the Charlotte Hornets appear to have mutual interest in continuing their partnership, with the organization previously signaling a desire to keep him and the guard expressing similar enthusiasm about staying.<\/p>\n<p>White pointed to both the team culture and playing style as key reasons why the situation feels like a strong fit for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think just the basketball, how they play, how they compete, what they\u2019re building is something I can look forward to being a part of,\u201d White said. \u201cThey say I can be a part of the culture that they\u2019re building. And they obviously play a style that kind of benefits me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople could tell that by the end of the season, how I was playing. It was probably one of my most efficient stretches I had in terms of minutes and what I was doing in those minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, yeah, I think everything just aligns right. And like I said from the jump when I first got here, something just felt right. And I think it was all part of God\u2019s plan for me to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White, who is from North Carolina, emphasized how much he enjoys being with the Hornets, even as the team continues to work toward ending a decade-long playoff drought.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that stretch, their strong finish to the regular season suggests positive momentum and a direction that players like White are eager to be part of moving forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hornets Notes: White, Diabate, Offseason, Draft <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r5luSSRUpN\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/r5luSSRUpN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hoops Rumors (@HoopsRumors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoopsRumors\/status\/2049994867476942858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/217501-coby-white-wants-to-stay-with-hornets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Chicago Bulls\/X Coby White and the Charlotte Hornets appear to have mutual interest in continuing their partnership, with the organization previously signaling a desire to keep him and the guard expressing similar enthusiasm about staying. White pointed to both the team culture and playing style as key reasons why the situation feels like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}