One of the best stories in the NBA this season was without question the Charlotte Hornets. They improved their win total by 25 from last season and had their best season in a decade despite being a dozen games under .500 nearly halfway through the year. Down the final two to three months of the regular season, they were statistically one of the best and most dominant teams in the NBA. Recently, The Athletic released the results of its anonymous NBA player poll, including one question that asked: “Which current coach, aside from your own, do you find the most impressive?” Hornets head coach Charles Lee garnered the seventh-most responses, trailing only Joe Mazzulla (BOS), Mark Daigneault (OKC), J.B. Bickerstaff (DET), Erik Spoelstra (MIA), Jordan Ott (PHO), and Mitch Johnson (SAS). Lee set the standard and changed the culture From the moment he first sat in front of a microphone as the Hornets' head coach, you could tell how much this opportunity meant to him.…