Snapshot
- Role: third/fourth point guard and potential salary in a cutdown trade.
- 2025-26: 53 GP, 12.6 MPG; .360 FG · .852 FT · 0.9 3PM · 5.5 PTS · 1.7 REB · 1.6 AST · 0.5 STL · 0.1 BLK · 1.0 TO.
- Health: dealt with ankle soreness/impingement and knee soreness/bone bruise.
2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 8.0 | .400 | .850 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
Nine-category and points: outside the top 230. Dynasty: outside the top 220; the path can reopen on a thinner roster, but Charlotte drafted Anderson and can use James at point.
Range
- Ceiling: survives and wins the backup job; 18-20 MPG with 10 PTS, two threes and three assists—deep-league streaming.
- Median: sporadic fourth-guard minutes.
- Floor: one of the three required standard-contract exits before opening night.
Sources
- Hornets 2025-26 game notes — 2026-04-13; exact line and injury log.
- ESPN player statistics — accessed 2026-07-18.
- RealGM current Hornets roster — accessed 2026-07-18; signed status.
- Hashtag Basketball dynasty rankings — updated 2026-07-02; No. 381.
- Community roster outlook — 2026-06-28; used only as cut/backup-PG sentiment.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Two seasons at Florida. Redshirted-thin freshman year in 2019-20 (29 games, 17.8 MPG, 5.3 points, 1.9 rebounds, 0.7 assists on .356/.275/.655), then a sophomore leap in 2020-21: 24 games, all starts, 32.4 MPG, 16.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists on .459/.402/.831, First Team All-SEC by the coaches and Second Team by the media, with a 30-point game against Tennessee in the SEC tournament. McDonald's All-American in 2019. Draft: 2021, round 1, pick 18, Oklahoma City Thunder.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 20 | OKC | 60 | 22.8 | 10.4 | 2.9 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.6 | .393 | .793 | 1.2 |
| 2022-23 | 21 | OKC | 67 | 17.7 | 7.7 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | .393 | .764 | 0.9 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | OKC | 13 | 9.2 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | .500 | 1.000 | 0.7 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | CHA | 28 | 31.0 | 11.9 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 1.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | .453 | .759 | 2.0 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | CHA | 13 | 24.5 | 14.1 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.8 | .435 | .905 | 1.9 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | CHA | 53 | 12.6 | 5.5 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.9 | .360 | .852 | 1.0 |
| Career | 234 | 19.3 | 8.5 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.3 | .402 | .795 | 1.2 |
The 2023-24 OKC line covers 13 games before the February 2024 trade and its 1.000 FT% is a sample artifact; the two 2023-24 rows combine to 41 games, 24.1 MPG, 9.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists.
Durability: 60, 67, 41, 13 and 53 games. The 2024-25 collapse is the one real injury event: a herniated disc in his back in late November 2024 required surgery and ended the season after 13 games, at the moment he was posting career highs of 14.1 points and 40.0% from three. He was cleared healthy before 2025-26, and the 29 games he missed that year were largely rotation decisions rather than the back, alongside ankle and knee soreness entries.
Trajectory: Mann's best basketball is a 41-game stretch across the 2024 trade and the start of 2024-25 — roughly 12 to 14 points with four to five assists in high-20s minutes — and it is bracketed on both sides by inefficiency. The 2025-26 line is the concerning one: .360 from the field in 12.6 minutes is not a role player who got squeezed, it is a shot-creator whose shot did not fall. He enters 2026-27 as the third or fourth guard behind Charlotte's younger options, under contract on the three-year, $24 million deal he signed in July 2025. He is startable in deep leagues only if injuries clear two guards ahead of him or a trade moves him to a team with an open backup ball-handling job; the contract makes a training-camp release costly, so a trade is the likelier exit.
Career sources: ESPN player stats · StatMuse 2025-26 season averages · StatMuse career averages by season · Wikipedia · CBS Sports, herniated disc surgery
Open questions
- Does Charlotte retain Mann as insurance or move his contract before camp?
- Was last year's efficiency collapse mostly health, role, or a durable limitation?