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The Charlotte Hornets are expected to make some changes to their starting five this season. Mark Williams is off the roster, and it's very likely that Josh Gree ...

Diabate was cut ahead of EuroBasket and declined to rejoin Les Bleus after an injury to Vincent Poirier. More at Hoops Rumors ...

Thunder forward Ousmane Dieng and Hornets big man Moussa Diabate won't be suiting up for France at EuroBasket.

Without Mark Williams this season, Diabate has averaged 9.0 rebounds, 4.6 points and 1.0 assists in 25 games. As a starter, Moussa has averaged 12.2 rebounds, 3.8 points and 2.6 assists in five games.

Moussa Diabaté's emergence from two-way dice roll to integral part of the Charlotte Hornets' primary center rotation is one for the script writers at Walt Disney to take a look at.

Well, not necessarily. Enter: Moussa Diabate. Without Mark Williams this season, Diabate has averaged 9.0 rebounds, 4.6 points and 1.0 assists in 25 games.

Three more players — center Hunter Dickinson, power forward Moussa Diabate and small forward Caleb Houstan — still haven’t gone public with their plans.

Diabate, a 6-foot-10 center, was a second-round pick by the Clippers out of Michigan, where he played one season. He averaged 9 points, 6 rebounds and shot 54.6% from the field for the Wolverines ...

Diabate, now ranked 20th in his class according to the 247Sports Composite, wants to play in the NBA. He wants to make the French National Team, and he wants to win a gold medal for his home country.