Later losing in six games in the 2019-2020 season to the Miami Heat. And in his first season, Walker and the Celtics were able to get to the Western Conference Finals. In Walker’s short two-season stint with the Celtics, he averaged 19.9 PPG, 4.8 APG, and 3.9 RPG. And he looked like he could have been the missing piece for the Celtics. The deal included point guard Terry Rozier coming to Charlotte and sent Walker on his way to his first new team in his career in Boston. The Charlotte Hornets made a sign-and-trade deal with the Boston Celtics. Thus, resulting in the Hornets moving in a new direction. His individual attributions clearly were not enough to push the Hornets into the conversation of potential contenders. And while not all the blame for the organization’s shortcomings can be placed on him( with his best teammates in his tenure arguably being Cody Zeller and Al Jefferson). In Walker’s eight-year tenure with the organization, he only made the playoffs twice, losing in the first round in both appearances. And as much of a hard decision it may have been for the Hornets to move on from their all-star guard, no one could really blame them. The Charlotte Hornets ended up deciding it was in their best interest to move on from Walker after he shut down their reported final offer of a just under 160 million dollar five-year deal.

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