Kemba Walker is likely leaving Charlotte and the Hornets will be starting from scratch.
A big reason for Walker leaving is because of the lack of cap room and owner Michael Jordan being unwilling to pay the luxury tax.
The Hornets/Bobcats have made the playoffs only twice in Walker's eight years with the team.
What led Charlotte to this position? Well, there have been a lot more bad moves than good since Walker was drafted ninth overall in the 2011 NBA Draft.
Here is a look at the worst moves made since Walker's rookie year when Charlotte went 7-59, the worst winning percentage in NBA history:
This was just a bad move. Dunlap was fired after one season and 21 wins.
It's not Charlotte's fault that they missed out on arguably one of the best prospects in years that became a multiple-time all-star, but drafting Kidd-Gilchrist has not panned out.
The 2013 draft ended up being pretty weak but there were still a lot of options that could have made more of an impact than Zeller.
Zeller hasn't' turned out to be a bad player in any means and has contributed to a lot of Charlotte wins, but future MVP Giannis Antetokounpo, center Steven Adams and shooting guard CJ McCollum were still on the board.
This turned out to be a really, really bad move. In their first season back as the Hornets, general manager Rich Cho signed Stephenson to a three-year, $27 million deal.
Stephenson became a headache in the locker room and averaged 8.2 points on 37 percent shooting and the worst 3-point percentage league history.
Charlotte looked to trade Stephenson just three weeks into his first season.
The Hornets traded him for Spencer Hawes and Matt Barnes during the summer of 2015. Hawes ultimately became a part of the terrible Miles Plumlee trade that caused even more future ripple effects.
Vonleh was projected to be a top-five pick and slid into the Hornets lap, but in the end, there was a reason why Vonleh slid.
Vonleh spent most of his rookie year in the G-League and was traded after one year to the Portland Trail Blazers along with Gerald Henderson for Nicolas Batum.
Charlotte drafted Napier, a former teammate of Walker, 22nd overall, but immediately traded him for troubled UNC star Hairston, who was drafted 26th.
Hairston found himself in trouble throughout his time in the NBA and was out of the league in two years.
Kaminsky was a surprise pick when Charlotte selected him and despite a handful of offensive outbursts throughout his first few years with the team, Kaminsky became a defensive liability and never lived up to his potential.
Retaining Kidd-Gilchrist wasn't the worst idea since he still had plenty of potential left. However, despite being barred by injuries through his first two years in the league, Cho signed MKG to a four year, $52 million extension.
The contract still has one year remaining after he picked up his player-option and Kidd-Gilchrist hasn't lived up to the deal in any means.
Batum was coming off a strong season for the Hornets in which they made the playoffs and fans wanted to re-sign him, but the price is one of the biggest reasons that Charlotte is where they are today.
Cho signed Batum to a five-year, $120 million contract and Batum hasn't come close to earning it.
This was the summer that the NBA's cap payroll sky-rocketed and the Hornets, unfortunately, fell victims to it.
Williams has been a solid piece for Charlotte since signing with them in 2014 but has come nowhere close to being worth this much money.
Williams has been an average role player and will eat up $15 million of payroll in 2019-20 after picking up his player option.
If the Hornets hadn't already spent a plethora of cash during the 2016-17 season, they continued handing out checks by extending Zeller to a four-year, $56 million deal.
Zeller had established himself as a solid role player in the league but injuries and inconsistency made this a very questionable move.
Zeller still has a year remaining on this deal and is another reason Charlotte is struggling financially.
This is probably one of the worst moves that Charlotte made during Walker's tenure with the team.
For no specific reason, Cho traded Hawes, who had one-year and a player option worth $6 million remaining on his contract along with Roy Hibbert, who would be a free agent at the end of the season for Plumlee during the trade deadline.
Plumlee was in the first year of a four-year, $52 million deal and made no impact while in Charlotte.
This wasn't a bad trade due to the fact that the Plumlee trade was disastrous and Howard was one of the only centers on the market with a comparable contract. But Howard was a shell of his former all-star self.
Howard had two years left on his contract but caused chemistry issues in the locker room and reportedly didn't get along with Walker and many Charlotte teammates.
There is still time for Monk to prove doubters wrong, but so far, Monk hasn't shown anyone that he was worth a lottery pick in the draft.
Reports have said that some in the Charlotte organization was high on shooting guard Donovan Mitchell, but Jordan and Cho ultimately decided to select Monk.
Mitchell was picked 13th and has become a star player with the Utah Jazz.
Charlotte was still looking for a solid backup behind Walker and decided to sign the former lottery pick.
It was a cheap, one-year deal, but Carter-Williams played awful and had his only season with the Hornets cut short due to injury.
The reason trading for Howard was such a bad deal is because what they traded him away for.
Cho was fired and new general manager Mitch Kupchak traded Howard to the Brooklyn Nets for second-round draft picks and center Timofey Mozgov.
This was a very questionable move since Howard had one year left on his contract and Mozgov had two-years and around $32 million remaining.
The trade freed up around $7 million of cap space for the Hornets heading into the 2018-19 season, but they could have almost $20 million of cap space available if they held onto Howard or swapped him for another expiring contract.
Mozgov was quickly traded two days later for former Charlotte center Biyombo, who also had two years remaining on his contract, but around $34 million remaining.
This is the final piece of the puzzle that will leave Charlotte with nothing for their franchise player.
Kupchak had the opportunity to trade Walker for assets that could set the Hornets up for future success but he elected to hold onto him and have him host the 2019 All-Star Game in Charlotte.
Kupchak remained optimistic that the Hornets could get a deal done with Walker.
Even if Kupchak believed the team could still make the playoffs, he could have attempted to trade for a star to play alongside Walker such as Bradley Beal or Marc Gasol.
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All-in-all, Kupchak felt no move was the best move. Now, the Hornets will have no franchise player and will start from scratch, while still being over the cap.
In total, Batum, Biyombo, Zeller, Williams and Kidd-Gilchrist will take up $84 million of Charlotte's payroll next season.