The Charlotte Hornets introduced the signing of Kyle Mangas on Wednesday, September 2, including one other perimeter choice to a roster that underwent a significant overhaul this offseason.
Mangas brings in depth skilled expertise from the G League and abroad, along with his most up-to-date season cut up between the Austin Spurs and Chorale Roanne in France. He performed 45 video games for Austin in 2025-26, averaging 17.1 factors, 3.9 rebounds and a pair of.8 assists in 32.4 minutes per sport whereas capturing 46.5% from the sector and 39.9% from three-point vary.
The 27-year-old guard additionally appeared in six video games for Roanne, posting 11.3 factors, 2.2 rebounds and three.5 assists in 25.2 minutes per sport.
Mangas has established himself as a productive scorer and dependable three-point shooter all through his skilled profession. His strongest G League season got here in 2023-24 with the Indiana Mad Ants, when he averaged 17.6 factors, 3.1 rebounds and three.6 assists in 48 video games whereas capturing 48.2% from the sector and 38.9% from three.
He adopted that with a 2024-25 marketing campaign cut up between Indiana and Austin. Mangas averaged 15.2 factors, 3.3 rebounds and three.8 assists in 37 video games with the Mad Ants, capturing 42.1% from three, earlier than producing 17.1 factors, 4.3 rebounds and three.3 assists in 10 video games with Austin whereas capturing 47.0% from past the arc.
Mangas started his skilled profession in Europe with USK Praha within the Czech Republic, averaging 20.5 factors and 5.4 rebounds in 36 video games in the course of the 2021-22 season. He then performed for Siauliai in Lithuania in 2022-23, averaging 12.3 factors, 2.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists whereas capturing 38.0% from three.
His addition comes after the Hornets dramatically reshaped their roster in the course of the 2026 offseason. Charlotte traded LaMelo Ball to Minnesota and Miles Bridges to Phoenix, ending the core of the period that had outlined the franchise in latest seasons.
The Hornets additionally moved Tre Mann to Cleveland while acquiring Dennis Schroder, and introduced in Naz Reid, Grayson Allen, Royce O’Neale and Dorian Finney-Smith in a collection of strikes designed to alter the staff’s aggressive timeline.
Charlotte is now constructed round Brandon Miller, Coby White, Kon Knueppel, Naz Reid and Moussa Diabate, with Allen and Schroder offering extra capturing and playmaking.
The Hornets completed 44-38 final season, ninth within the Jap Convention, incomes a spot within the play-in match. They have been just one sport behind the Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers, who each completed 45-37, however the franchise opted for a considerable reset moderately than merely working again the roster.
