Hornets submit 15-man roster

Unlike NFL teams, which monitor the waiver wire for potential pickups before the start of the regular season, NBA teams tend to wait weeks before choosing to bring on someone else's reject.

With an 82-game season, there's time to see how things shake out early in the season before choosing to stand pat or make a move to improve.

That's what the Hornets did a year ago, shipping unhappy and ineffective point guard Mike James to the Washington Wizards to acquire Antonio Daniels. The Hornets hoped the transaction would strengthen their bench at a position of need.

On Monday, the Hornets submitted a roster with the maximum 15 players to the league. The team opens the season Wednesday night in a nationally televised game at the San Antonio Spurs.

Coach Byron Scott appears to have no immediate plans to add new faces, and the team also announced it has picked up the 2010-11 option on forward Julian Wright.

"Generally teams like to watch how their team performs in the early part of the season, to get a gauge on who they are and what's effective, and also to study other teams," Hornets General Manager Jeff Bower said. "It's a very slow period to start the season."

So the 15 on the roster are likely to be the same 15 on Wednesday night?

"Sure," Bower said.

That doesn't mean the Hornets, as the depth chart stands today, are a finished product.

"We continue to look at everything," Bower said. "We watch our performances in the preseason, both from an individual standpoint and from a team standpoint. And obviously we have much room to improve and need to improve at a strong pace. We'll continue to watch our team and every other team."

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