The Charlotte Hornets are getting their man.

ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the team is hiring former Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak for their GM role.

The team is expected to introduce Kupchak later this week.

The Hornets were widely expected to pursue the 63-year-old Kupchak after announcing in late February that current GM Rich Cho would not return for the 2018-19 season. Cho had been with the Hornets since 2011.

Kupchak was let go by the Lakers almost exactly a year ago after 17 years in the role with the team in the middle of its leanest years in recent memory.

A former player who won three NBA titles (one with the Washington Bullets and two with the Lakers), Kupchak had been in the Lakers front office since 1986 and served under Jerry West. Under Kupchak, the Lakers reached four NBA Finals, winning two of them in 2009 and 2010. Kupchak was responsible for the trade of Shaquille O'Neal to the Heat and the high-profile acquisitions of Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.

The Hornets are set to miss the postseason for the third time in four years and 11th time in the 14 years since the NBA returned to Charlotte.