"It was hard. I got drafted here, so L.A. means a lot," Knecht told Jovan Buha of The Athletic. "I go to Charlotte in the morning with one of my guys, get introduced, start meeting all those people, then fly out to Detroit to what was called my ‘debut game’—to then, now I’m flying back to [Los Angeles]."

Dalton Knecht had been having a great season with the Los Angeles Lakers. However, his time with the Lakers seemingly came to an end when the franchise traded him to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Mark Williams.